Going with the flow? Diversification of gastropods reflects drainage evolution in Africa

Adaptive divergence in shell morphology in an ongoing gastropod radiation from Lake Malawi

(2020) Bert Van Bocxlaer et al.   BMC EVOLUTIONARY BIOLOGY

Global Diversification Dynamics Since the Jurassic: Low Dispersal and Habitat-Dependent Evolution Explain Hotspots of Diversity and Shell Disparity in River Snails (Viviparidae)

(2020) Björn Stelbrink et al.   SYSTEMATIC BIOLOGY

Pattern and timing of diversification in the African freshwater fish genus Distichodus (Characiformes: Distichodontidae)

(2020) Jairo Arroyave et al.   BMC EVOLUTIONARY BIOLOGY

Unravelling the evolution of Africa’s drainage basins through a widespread freshwater fish, the African sharptooth catfish Clarias gariepinus

(2020) Maarten W. Van Steenberge et al.   JOURNAL OF BIOGEOGRAPHY

Diversification dynamics of freshwater bivalves (Unionidae: Parreysiinae: Coelaturini) indicate historic hydrographic connections throughout the East African Rift System

(2020) Claudia M. Ortiz-Sepulveda et al.   MOLECULAR PHYLOGENETICS AND EVOLUTION

Tectonics, climate and the diversification of the tropical African terrestrial flora and fauna

(2020) Thomas L.P. Couvreur et al.   BIOLOGICAL REVIEWS

Population collapse in viviparid gastropods of the Lake Victoria ecoregion started before the Last Glacial Maximum

(2020) Bert Van Bocxlaer et al.   MOLECULAR ECOLOGY

Signatures of Divergence, Invasiveness, and Terrestrialization Revealed by Four Apple Snail Genomes

(2019) Jin Sun et al.   MOLECULAR BIOLOGY AND EVOLUTION

Cryptic intermediate snail host of the liver fluke Fasciola hepatica in Africa

(2019) Anna Mahulu et al.   Parasites & Vectors

Ampullariid gastropods from the Palaeogene Hudi Chert Formation (Republic of the Sudan)

(2017) Mathias Harzhauser et al.   JOURNAL OF AFRICAN EARTH SCIENCES

Multiple independent colonizations into the Congo Basin during the continental radiation of African Mastacembelus spiny eels

(2017) Julia J. Day et al.   JOURNAL OF BIOGEOGRAPHY

Hierarchical structure of ecological and non-ecological processes of differentiation shaped ongoing gastropod radiation in the Malawi Basin

(2017) Bert Van Bocxlaer   PROCEEDINGS OF THE ROYAL SOCIETY B-BIOLOGICAL SCIENCES

Molecular phylogeny and DNA barcoding confirm cryptic species in the African freshwater oysterEtheria ellipticaLamarck, 1807 (Bivalvia: Etheriidae)

(2016) Curt L. Elderkin et al.   BIOLOGICAL JOURNAL OF THE LINNEAN SOCIETY

Origin and diversification of Lake Ohrid’s endemic acroloxid limpets: the role of geography and ecology

(2016) Björn Stelbrink et al.   BMC EVOLUTIONARY BIOLOGY

Bayesian estimation of the global biogeographical history of the Solanaceae

(2016) Julia Dupin et al.   JOURNAL OF BIOGEOGRAPHY

How marine currents influenced the widespread natural overseas dispersal of reptiles in the Western Indian Ocean region

(2016) Oliver Hawlitschek et al.   JOURNAL OF BIOGEOGRAPHY

MEGA7: Molecular Evolutionary Genetics Analysis Version 7.0 for Bigger Datasets

(2016) Sudhir Kumar et al.   MOLECULAR BIOLOGY AND EVOLUTION

Species Richness at Continental Scales Is Dominated by Ecological Limits

(2015) Daniel L. Rabosky et al.   AMERICAN NATURALIST

Species Diversity Is Dynamic and Unbounded at Local and Continental Scales

(2015) Luke J. Harmon et al.   AMERICAN NATURALIST

Recurrent camouflaged invasions and dispersal of an Asian freshwater gastropod in tropical Africa

(2015) Bert Van Bocxlaer et al.   BMC EVOLUTIONARY BIOLOGY

Insights from an Integrated View of the Biology of Apple Snails (Caenogastropoda: Ampullariidae)

(2015) Kenneth A. Hayes et al.   MALACOLOGIA

Continuous 1.3-million-year record of East African hydroclimate, and implications for patterns of evolution and biodiversity

(2015) Robert P. Lyons et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

Multilocus Phylogeny of the Afrotropical Freshwater Crab Fauna Reveals Historical Drainage Connectivity and Transoceanic Dispersal Since the Eocene

(2015) S. R. Daniels et al.   SYSTEMATIC BIOLOGY

The recent apple snails of Africa and Asia (Mollusca: Gastropoda: Ampullariidae: Afropomus, Forbesopomus, Lanistes, Pila, Saulea): a nomenclatural and type catalogue. The apple snails of the Americas: addenda and corrigenda

(2015) ROBERT H. COWIE   ZOOTAXA

Ecology and Evolution of the African Great Lakes and Their Faunas

(2014) Walter Salzburger et al.   Annual Review of Ecology Evolution and Systematics

RAxML version 8: a tool for phylogenetic analysis and post-analysis of large phylogenies

(2014) Alexandros Stamatakis   BIOINFORMATICS

Disjunct distributions of freshwater snails testify to a central role of the Congo system in shaping biogeographical patterns in Africa

(2014) Roland Schultheiß et al.   BMC EVOLUTIONARY BIOLOGY

Environmental heterogeneity predicts species richness of freshwater mollusks in sub-Saharan Africa

(2014) T. Hauffe et al.   INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF EARTH SCIENCES

Model Selection in Historical Biogeography Reveals that Founder-Event Speciation Is a Crucial Process in Island Clades

(2014) Nicholas J. Matzke   SYSTEMATIC BIOLOGY

A general species delimitation method with applications to phylogenetic placements

(2013) Jiajie Zhang et al.   BIOINFORMATICS

MAFFT Multiple Sequence Alignment Software Version 7: Improvements in Performance and Usability

(2013) K. Katoh et al.   MOLECULAR BIOLOGY AND EVOLUTION

Cichlid Fishes in the Angolan Headwaters Region: Molecular Evidence of the Ichthyofaunal Contact between the Cuanza and Okavango-Zambezi Systems

(2013) Zuzana Musilová et al.   PLoS One

Continental Diversification of an African Catfish Radiation (Mochokidae: Synodontis)

(2013) Julia J. Day et al.   SYSTEMATIC BIOLOGY

Delimiting Species Using Single-Locus Data and the Generalized Mixed Yule Coalescent Approach: A Revised Method and Evaluation on Simulated Data Sets

(2013) Tomochika Fujisawa et al.   SYSTEMATIC BIOLOGY

Conservation priorities for freshwater biodiversity: The Key Biodiversity Area approach refined and tested for continental Africa

(2012) R.A. Holland et al.   BIOLOGICAL CONSERVATION

Accurate Model Selection of Relaxed Molecular Clocks in Bayesian Phylogenetics

(2012) Guy Baele et al.   MOLECULAR BIOLOGY AND EVOLUTION

Bayesian Phylogenetics with BEAUti and the BEAST 1.7

(2012) Alexei J. Drummond et al.   MOLECULAR BIOLOGY AND EVOLUTION

Repeated trans-watershed hybridization among haplochromine cichlids (Cichlidae) was triggered by Neogene landscape evolution

(2012) J. Schwarzer et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE ROYAL SOCIETY B-BIOLOGICAL SCIENCES

MrBayes 3.2: Efficient Bayesian Phylogenetic Inference and Model Choice Across a Large Model Space

(2012) Fredrik Ronquist et al.   SYSTEMATIC BIOLOGY

Cryptic Diversity of African Tigerfish (Genus Hydrocynus) Reveals Palaeogeographic Signatures of Linked Neogene Geotectonic Events

(2011) Sarah A. M. Goodier et al.   PLoS One

phytools: an R package for phylogenetic comparative biology (and other things)

(2011) Liam J. Revell   Methods in Ecology and Evolution

The birth of an endemic species flock: demographic history of the Bellamya group (Gastropoda, Viviparidae) in Lake Malawi

(2010) ROLAND SCHULTHEIß et al.   BIOLOGICAL JOURNAL OF THE LINNEAN SOCIETY

A global phylogeny of apple snails: Gondwanan origin, generic relationships, and the influence of outgroup choice (Caenogastropoda: Ampullariidae)

(2009) KENNETH A. HAYES et al.   BIOLOGICAL JOURNAL OF THE LINNEAN SOCIETY

The root of the East African cichlid radiations

(2009) Julia Schwarzer et al.   BMC EVOLUTIONARY BIOLOGY

Stratigraphic interpretation of the Kulu Formation (Early Miocene, Rusinga Island, Kenya) and its implications for primate evolution

(2009) Daniel J. Peppe et al.   JOURNAL OF HUMAN EVOLUTION

A molecular phylogeny of apple snails (Gastropoda, Caenogastropoda, Ampullariidae) with an emphasis on African species

(2008) Aslak Jørgensen et al.   ZOOLOGICA SCRIPTA