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The onset of ecological diversification 50 years after colonization of a crater lake by haplochromine cichlid fishes.
Proceedings. Biological sciences - 15 Aug 2018
Moser Florian N, van Rijssel Jacco C, Mwaiko Salome, Meier Joana I, Ngatunga Benjamin, Seehausen Ole
Abstract excerpt
Adaptive radiation research typically relies on the study of evolution in retrospective, leaving the predictive value of the concept hard to evaluate. Several radiations, including the cichlid fishes in the East African Great Lakes, have been studied extensively, yet no study has investigated the onset of the intraspecific processes of niche expansion and differentiation shortly after colonization of an adaptive...
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