Gradient Evolution of Body Colouration in Surface- and Cave-DwellingPoecilia mexicanaand the Role of Phenotype-Assortative Female Mate Choice

Rapid evolution of troglomorphic characters suggests selection rather than neutral mutation as a driver of eye reduction in cave crabs

(2013) S. Klaus et al.   Biology Letters

GENETIC DIFFERENTIATION AND SELECTION AGAINST MIGRANTS IN EVOLUTIONARILY REPLICATED EXTREME ENVIRONMENTS

(2013) Martin Plath et al.   EVOLUTION

The genome of the platyfish, Xiphophorus maculatus, provides insights into evolutionary adaptation and several complex traits

(2013) Manfred Schartl et al.   NATURE GENETICS

Translocation of cave fish (Poecilia mexicana)within and between natural habitats along a toxicity gradient

(2012) Ingo Schlupp et al.   ECOLOGY OF FRESHWATER FISH

Speciation in caves: experimental evidence that permanent darkness promotes reproductive isolation

(2011) R. Riesch et al.   Biology Letters

Predator-induced changes of female mating preferences: innate and experiential effects

(2011) David Bierbach et al.   BMC EVOLUTIONARY BIOLOGY

Hydrogen sulfide, bacteria, and fish: a unique, subterranean food chain

(2011) Katherine A. Roach et al.   ECOLOGY

EVOLUTION IN EXTREME ENVIRONMENTS: REPLICATED PHENOTYPIC DIFFERENTIATION IN LIVEBEARING FISH INHABITING SULFIDIC SPRINGS

(2011) Michael Tobler et al.   EVOLUTION

Shared and Unique Patterns of Embryo Development in Extremophile Poeciliids

(2011) Rüdiger Riesch et al.   PLoS One

Divergence in trophic ecology characterizes colonization of extreme habitats

(2010) MICHAEL TOBLER   BIOLOGICAL JOURNAL OF THE LINNEAN SOCIETY

Extreme habitats are not refuges: poeciliids suffer from increased aerial predation risk in sulphidic southern Mexican habitats

(2010) RÜDIGER RIESCH et al.   BIOLOGICAL JOURNAL OF THE LINNEAN SOCIETY

An indigenous religious ritual selects for resistance to a toxicant in a livebearing fish

(2010) M. Tobler et al.   Biology Letters

Locally adapted fish populations maintain small-scale genetic differentiation despite perturbation by a catastrophic flood event

(2010) Martin Plath et al.   BMC EVOLUTIONARY BIOLOGY

Evolution of a Behavioral Shift Mediated by Superficial Neuromasts Helps Cavefish Find Food in Darkness

(2010) Masato Yoshizawa et al.   CURRENT BIOLOGY

Toxic hydrogen sulfide and dark caves: life-history adaptations in a livebearing fish (Poecilia mexicana, Poeciliidae)

(2010) Rüdiger Riesch et al.   ECOLOGY

Turbidity Hampers Mate Choice in a Pipefish

(2010) Josefin Sundin et al.   ETHOLOGY

Toxic hydrogen sulphide and dark caves: pronounced male life-history divergence among locally adapted Poecilia mexicana (Poeciliidae)

(2010) R. RIESCH et al.   JOURNAL OF EVOLUTIONARY BIOLOGY

Complementary effect of natural and sexual selection against immigrants maintains differentiation between locally adapted fish

(2010) Martin Plath et al.   NATURWISSENSCHAFTEN

Regressive Evolution inAstyanaxCavefish

(2009) William R. Jeffery   Annual Review of Genetics

Variation along the shy–bold continuum in extremophile fishes (Poecilia mexicana, Poecilia sulphuraria)

(2009) Rüdiger Riesch et al.   BEHAVIORAL ECOLOGY AND SOCIOBIOLOGY

Impacts of increased sediment loads on the ecology of lakes

(2009) Ian Donohue et al.   BIOLOGICAL REVIEWS

Does a predatory insect contribute to the divergence between cave- and surface-adapted fish populations?

(2009) M. Tobler   Biology Letters

Reduced opsin gene expression in a cave-dwelling fish

(2009) M. Tobler et al.   Biology Letters

Pleiotropic functions of embryonic sonic hedgehog expression link jaw and taste bud amplification with eye loss during cavefish evolution

(2009) Yoshiyuki Yamamoto et al.   DEVELOPMENTAL BIOLOGY

A morphological gradient revisited: cave mollies vary not only in eye size

(2009) Maxwell E. Fontanier et al.   ENVIRONMENTAL BIOLOGY OF FISHES

Mate choice based on a key ecological performance trait

(2009) L. K. SNOWBERG et al.   JOURNAL OF EVOLUTIONARY BIOLOGY

Natural and sexual selection against immigrants maintains differentiation among micro-allopatric populations

(2009) M. TOBLER et al.   JOURNAL OF EVOLUTIONARY BIOLOGY

Convergent life-history shifts: toxic environments result in big babies in two clades of poeciliids

(2009) Rüdiger Riesch et al.   NATURWISSENSCHAFTEN

On the Origin of Species by Natural and Sexual Selection

(2009) G. S. van Doorn et al.   SCIENCE

Pigments, Patterns, and Fish Behavior

(2009) Anna C. Price et al.   Zebrafish

Seasonal plasticity in male mating preferences in sailfin mollies

(2008) Katja U. Heubel et al.   BEHAVIORAL ECOLOGY

Does divergence in female mate choice affect male size distributions in two cave fish populations?

(2008) M. Tobler et al.   Biology Letters

TOXIC HYDROGEN SULFIDE AND DARK CAVES: PHENOTYPIC AND GENETIC DIVERGENCE ACROSS TWO ABIOTIC ENVIRONMENTAL GRADIENTS INPOECILIA MEXICANA

(2008) Michael Tobler et al.   EVOLUTION

From Abbott Thayer to the present day: what have we learned about the function of countershading?

(2008) H. M Rowland   PHILOSOPHICAL TRANSACTIONS OF THE ROYAL SOCIETY B-BIOLOGICAL SCIENCES

Animal camouflage: current issues and new perspectives

(2008) M. Stevens et al.   PHILOSOPHICAL TRANSACTIONS OF THE ROYAL SOCIETY B-BIOLOGICAL SCIENCES

Male mating behavior and costs of sexual harassment for females in cavernicolous and extremophile populations of Atlantic mollies (Poecilia mexicana)

(2007) Martin Plath   BEHAVIOUR