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A century later: Adaptive plasticity and rapid evolution contribute to geographic variation in invasive mosquitofish

scientific article published on 18 March 2020

A novel, sexually selected trait in poeciliid fishes: female preference for mustache-like, rostral filaments in male Poecilia sphenops

scientific article published in 2010

A visual audience effect in a cavefish

Adaptive growth reduction in response to fish kairomones allows mosquito larvae (Culex pipiens) to reduce predation risk

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Age-dependent mating tactics in male bushbuck (Tragelaphus scriptus)

Are accessory hearing structures linked to inner ear morphology? Insights from 3D orientation patterns of ciliary bundles in three cichlid species

scientific article

Audience effect alters male but not female mating preferences

scientific article published in 2008

Audience effect alters mating preferences in a livebearing fish, the Atlantic molly, Poecilia mexicana

scholarly article by Martin Plath et al published January 2008 in Animal Behaviour

Audience effects in the Atlantic molly (Poecilia mexicana)-prudent male mate choice in response to perceived sperm competition risk?

scientific article published on 21 August 2009

Biological water quality assessment in the degraded Mutara rangelands, northeastern Rwanda

scholarly article by Marie-Claire Dusabe et al published 8 February 2019 in Environmental Monitoring and Assessment

Biotic interchange between the Indian subcontinent and mainland Asia through time

scientific article

Black spots and female association preferences in a sexual/asexual mating complex (Poecilia, Poeciliidae, Teleostei)

scientific article published in 2006

Casanovas are liars: behavioral syndromes, sperm competition risk, and the evolution of deceptive male mating behavior in live-bearing fishes

scientific article published on 05 March 2013

Cave molly females (Poecilia mexicana, Poeciliidae, Teleostei) like well-fed males

scientific article published in 2005

Characterizing a novel predator–prey relationship between native Diplonychus esakii (Heteroptera: Belostomatidae) and invasive Gambusia affinis (Teleostei: Poeciliidae) in central China

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Choosy males from the underground: male mating preferences in surface- and cave-dwelling Atlantic mollies (Poecilia mexicana).

scientific article published on 14 February 2006

Colonisation of toxic environments drives predictable life-history evolution in livebearing fishes (Poeciliidae).

scientific article published on 4 November 2013

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

scientific article published on 24 June 2010

Context-dependent female mate choice maintains variation in male sexual activity.

scientific article published on 12 July 2017

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

scientific article published on 14 October 2009

Cooling water of power plant creates "hot spots" for tropical fishes and parasites

scientific article published on 16 September 2015

Correlated divergence of female and male genitalia in replicated lineages with ongoing ecological speciation

scientific article published on 16 April 2019

Cover, food, competitorsandindividual densities within bushbuckTragelaphus scriptus female clan home ranges

Data on phylogenetic analyses of gazelles (genus Gazella) based on mitochondrial and nuclear intron markers

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Distribution of amphipod communities in the Middle to Upper Rhine and five of its tributaries

Divergent evolution of male aggressive behaviour: another reproductive isolation barrier in extremophile poeciliid fishes?

scientific article published on 23 October 2011

Divergent female mating preference in a clonal fish

Diversification of Ponto-Caspian aquatic fauna: morphology and molecules retrieve congruent evolutionary relationships in Pontogammarus maeoticus (Amphipoda: Pontogammaridae).

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Do audience effects lead to relaxed male sexual harassment?

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

scientific article published on October 2008

Does personality affect premating isolation between locally-adapted populations?

scientific article

Ecology and evolution along environmental gradients

scientific article published in 2018

Effects of extreme habitat conditions on otolith morphology: a case study on extremophile live bearing fishes (Poecilia mexicana, P. sulphuraria).

scientific article published on 14 October 2011

Effects of male sexual harassment on female time budgets, feeding behavior, and metabolic rates in a tropical livebearing fish (Poecilia mexicana)

article published in 2011

Electrifying love: electric fish use species-specific discharge for mate recognition

scientific article

Elevated temperatures translate into reduced dispersal abilities in a natural population of an aquatic insect

scientific article published on 23 July 2019

Enigmatic ear stones: what we know about the functional role and evolution of fish otoliths

scientific article published on 21 September 2018

Evolution at the Limits

scientific article published on 01 March 2017

Evolution in caves: selection from darkness causes spinal deformities in teleost fishes

scientific article published on 01 June 2018

Evolution in extreme environments: replicated phenotypic differentiation in livebearing fish inhabiting sulfidic springs

scientific article published on 11 April 2011

Evolution of ecological traits and phylogeny of the genus Gazella

scholarly article by Hannes Lerp et al published September 2016 in Mammalian Biology

Extreme environments and the origins of biodiversity: adaptation and speciation in sulfide spring fishes

scientific article published on 25 January 2018

Extreme habitats as refuge from parasite infections? Evidence from an extremophile fish

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Extremophile Fishes: An Integrative Synthesis

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Extremophile Fishes: An Introduction

Extremophile Poeciliidae: multivariate insights into the complexity of speciation along replicated ecological gradients.

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Female Choice Undermines the Emergence of Strong Sexual Isolation between Locally Adapted Populations of Atlantic Mollies (Poecilia mexicana).

scientific article published on 2 May 2018

Female mating preferences in blind cave tetras Astyanax fasciatus (Characidae, Teleostei)

Female sperm limitation in natural populations of a sexual/asexual mating complex (Poecilia latipinna, Poecilia formosa).

scientific article published on June 2008

Females prefer males with superior fighting abilities but avoid sexually harassing winners when eavesdropping on male fights

scientific article published in 2013

Genetic differentiation and selection against migrants in evolutionarily replicated extreme environments.

scientific article published on 8 May 2013

Genomic resources for a model in adaptation and speciation research: characterization of the Poecilia mexicana transcriptome

scientific article (publication date: 21 November 2012)

Geographical and temporal variation of multiple paternity in invasive mosquitofish (Gambusia holbrooki, Gambusia affinis)

scientific article published on 22 November 2019

Getting what is served? Feeding ecology influencing parasite-host interactions in invasive round goby Neogobius melanostomus ⬇️

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Gradient evolution of body colouration in surface- and cave-dwelling Poecilia mexicana and the role of phenotype-assortative female mate choice

scientific article published on 24 September 2013

Highly variable, unpredictable activity patterns in invasive, but not native amphipod species

scientific article published in 2016

Homosexual behaviour increases male attractiveness to females

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Hydrogen Sulfide-Toxic Habitats

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Importance of latrine communication in European rabbits shifts along a rural-to-urban gradient

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Influence of male competition on male mating behaviour in the cave molly, Poecilia mexicana

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Inner ear morphology in the Atlantic molly Poecilia mexicana--first detailed microanatomical study of the inner ear of a cyprinodontiform species

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Intrasexual competition enhances reproductive isolation between locally adapted populations

scientific article published on 28 November 2017

Invasive fish retain plasticity of naturally selected, but diverge in sexually selected traits

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Life on the edge: hydrogen sulfide and the fish communities of a Mexican cave and surrounding waters

scientific article

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

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Magic trait electric organ discharge (EOD): Dual function of electric signals promotes speciation in African weakly electric fish

scientific article published on July 2009

Male fish deceive competitors about mating preferences

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Male fish use prior knowledge about rivals to adjust their mate choice.

scientific article

Male guppies (Poecilia reticulata) adjust their mate choice behaviour to the presence of an audience

Male-biased predation of a cave fish by a giant water bug.

scientific article published on 24 April 2008

Matrotrophy in the cave molly: an unexpected provisioning strategy in an extreme environment

Microhabitat use, population densities, and size distributions of sulfur cave-dwelling Poecilia mexicana.

scientific article published on 15 July 2014

Misleading mollies: The effect of an audience on the expression of mating preferences

scientific article published on January 2008

Misleading mollies: surface- but not cave-dwelling Poecilia mexicana males deceive competitors about mating preferences

Multiple paternity in different populations of the sailfin molly, Poecilia latipinna

scientific article published in 2012

Mustached males in a tropical poeciliid fish: emerging female preference selects for a novel male trait

scientific article published in 2011

Natural and sexual selection drive multivariate phenotypic divergence along climatic gradients in an invasive fish ⬇️

scientific article published in Scientific Reports

Offspring number in a livebearing fish (Poecilia mexicana, Poeciliidae): reduced fecundity and reduced plasticity in a population of cave mollies

article by Rüdiger Riesch et al published 29 August 2008 in Environmental Biology of Fishes

On the natural history of an introduced population of guppies (Poecilia reticulata Peters, 1859) in Germany

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Otolith morphology and hearing abilities in cave- and surface-dwelling ecotypes of the Atlantic molly, Poecilia mexicana (Teleostei: Poeciliidae)

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Parallel evolution leads to reduced shoaling behavior in two cave dwelling populations of Atlantic mollies (Poecilia mexicana, Poeciliidae, Teleostei)

Parallel evolution of cox genes in H2S-tolerant fish as key adaptation to a toxic environment

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Pastoralism versus Agriculturalism-How Do Altered Land-Use Forms Affect the Spread of Invasive Plants in the Degraded Mutara Rangelands of North-Eastern Rwanda? ⬇️

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Persistence of Two Small Antelope Species in the Degraded Mutara Rangelands (Akagera Ecosystem) Based on Pastoralists’ and Farmers’ Perceptions

scientific article published in 2015

Personality affects mate choice: bolder males show stronger audience effects under high competition

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Personality differentially affects individual mate choice decisions in female and male Western mosquitofish (Gambusia affinis).

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Phylogenetic analyses of gazelles reveal repeated transitions of key ecological traits and provide novel insights into the origin of the genus Gazella.

scientific article published on 27 January 2016

Polymorphic MHC loci in an asexual fish, the amazon molly (Poecilia formosa; Poeciliidae).

scientific article published in December 2008

Population genetics of the European rabbit along a rural-to-urban gradient

scientific article published on 12 February 2020

Predation on a Cave Fish by the Freshwater Crab Avotrichodactylus Bidens (Bott, 1969) (Brachyura, Trichodactylidae) in a Mexican Sulfur Cave

Predation risk and abiotic habitat parameters affect personality traits in extremophile populations of a neotropical fish (Poecilia vivipara).

scientific article published on 18 July 2017

Predator avoidance in extremophile fish

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

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Predator-induced changes of male and female mating preferences: innate and learned components

scientific article published on 06 February 2019

Pronounced species turnover, but no functional equivalence in leaf consumption of invasive amphipods in the river Rhine

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

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Reduction of the association preference for conspecifics in cave-dwelling Atlantic mollies, Poecilia mexicana

scientific article published in 2006

Reintroduction of freshwater macroinvertebrates: challenges and opportunities

Rival presence leads to reversible changes in male mate choice of a desert dwelling ungulate

scientific article published in 2012

Sex and the public: Social eavesdropping, sperm competition risk and male mate choice

scientific article

Sex recognition in surface and cave dwelling male Atlantic mollies Poecilia mexicana (Poeciliidae, Teleostei)

Sex-specific local life-history adaptation in surface- and cave-dwelling Atlantic mollies (Poecilia mexicana)

scientific article published on 10 March 2016

Sexual and natural selection on morphological traits in a marine amphipod,Pontogammarus maeoticus(Sowinsky, 1894)

scientific article published in 2011

Sexual harassment in a live-bearing fish (Poecilia mexicana): influence of population-specific male mating behaviour

article by Martin Plath et al published 19 November 2004 in Acta Ethologica

Sexual selection in darkness? Female mating preferences in surface- and cave-dwelling Atlantic mollies, Poecilia mexicana (Poeciliidae, Teleostei)

scientific article published in 2004

Shared and unique patterns of embryo development in extremophile poeciliids

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Shared and unique patterns of phenotypic diversification along a stream gradient in two congeneric species

scientific article (publication date: 16 December 2016)

Shoaling behaviour in a surface-dwelling and a cave-dwelling population of a barb Garra barreimiae (Cyprinidae, Teleostei)

Shoaling behaviour in the pygmy halfbeak Dermogenys collettei (Beloniformes: Zenarchopteridae): comparing populations from contrasting predation regimes ⬇️

scientific article published in 2015

Small-scale phenotypic differentiation along complex stream gradients in a non-native amphipod ⬇️

scientific article published on 11 July 2019

Social network analysis resolves temporal dynamics of male dominance relationships

scientific article published in 2014

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

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Sperm competition risk affects male mate choice copying

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Sperm production in an extremophile fish, the cave molly (Poecilia mexicana, Poeciliidae, Teleostei)

scientific article published in 2007

Subterranean Fishes of Mexico (Poecilia mexicana, Poeciliidae)

Sulphide-toxic habitats are not refuges from parasite infections in an extremophile fish

scientific article published in July 2020

Survival in an extreme habitat: the roles of behaviour and energy limitation

scientific article published on 18 July 2007

The offspring size/fecundity trade-off and female fitness in the Atlantic molly (Poecilia mexicana, Poeciliidae)

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The rediscovery of a long described species reveals additional complexity in speciation patterns of poeciliid fishes in sulfide springs

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The role of sexual harassment in cave and surface dwelling populations of the Atlantic molly, Poecilia mexicana (Poeciliidae, Teleostei)

scientific article published in 2003

Thermal regime drives a latitudinal gradient in morphology and life history in a livebearing fish

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

scientific article published in May 2010

Toxic hydrogen sulfide and dark caves: phenotypic and genetic divergence across two abiotic environmental gradients in Poecilia mexicana

scientific article published on 18 September 2008

Twelve new microsatellite loci for the sulphur molly (Poecilia sulphuraria) and the related Atlantic molly (P. mexicana)

Unique evolutionary trajectories in repeated adaptation to hydrogen sulphide-toxic habitats of a neotropical fish (Poecilia mexicana).

scientific article published on 25 September 2015

Using native and invasive livebearing fishes (Poeciliidae, Teleostei) for the integrated biological assessment of pollution in urban streams

scientific article published on 06 September 2019

Utility of island populations in re-introduction programmes--relationships between Arabian gazelles (Gazella arabica) from the Farasan Archipelago and endangered mainland populations

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

scientific article published in 2009

Water pollution affects fish community structure and alters evolutionary trajectories of invasive guppies (Poecilia reticulata)

scientific article published on 28 April 2020

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