List of works by Michael Tobler

Adaptive, but not condition-dependent, body shape differences contribute to assortative mating preferences during ecological speciation.

scientific article published on 8 October 2016

Amazon mollies

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

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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

Complexities of gene expression patterns in natural populations of an extremophile fish (Poecilia mexicana, Poeciliidae).

scientific article published on 09 June 2017

Convergent evolution of conserved mitochondrial pathways underlies repeated adaptation to extreme environments

scientific article published on 25 June 2020

Correlated evolution of thermal niches and functional physiology in tropical freshwater fishes

scientific article published on 2 March 2018

Crayfishes (Decapoda : Cambaridae) of Oklahoma: identification, distributions, and natural history

scientific article (publication date: 27 September 2013)

Dietary niche overlap in sympatric asexual and sexual livebearing fishes Poecilia spp.

scientific article published on 31 October 2011

Divergence in trophic ecology characterizes colonization of extreme habitats

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

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

scientific article published on October 2008

Ecological divergence and conservatism: spatiotemporal patterns of niche evolution in a genus of livebearing fishes (Poeciliidae: Xiphophorus)

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Environmental heterogeneity generates opposite gene-by-environment interactions for two fitness-related traits within a population

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Environmental variation, hybridization, and phenotypic diversification in Cuatro Ciénegas pupfishes.

scientific article published on 26 May 2010

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

scientific article published on 11 April 2011

Evolution of body shape in differently coloured sympatric congeners and allopatric populations of Lake Malawi's rock-dwelling cichlids

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

scientific article published on 25 January 2018

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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From richer to poorer: successful invasion by freshwater fishes depends on species richness of donor and recipient basins

scientific article published on 19 November 2015

Functional consequences of phenotypic variation between locally adapted populations: Swimming performance and ventilation in extremophile fish

scientific article published on 18 January 2020

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

scientific article published on 8 May 2013

Genome-scale data reveal that endemic Poecilia populations from small sulphidic springs display no evidence of inbreeding

scientific article published on 21 July 2017

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

scientific article (publication date: 21 November 2012)

H2S exposure elicits differential expression of candidate genes in fish adapted to sulfidic and non-sulfidic environments

scientific article published on 9 May 2014

Habitat use by two extremophile, highly endemic, and critically endangered fish species (Gambusia eurystoma and Poecilia sulphuraria ; Poeciliidae)

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Hydrogen Sulfide-Toxic Habitats

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

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

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Local adaptation and pronounced genetic differentiation in an extremophile fish, Poecilia mexicana, inhabiting a Mexican cave with toxic hydrogen sulphide

scientific article published in March 2007

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

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

scientific article published on 24 April 2008

Mechanisms Underlying Adaptation to Life in Hydrogen Sulfide-Rich Environments

scientific article published on 9 February 2016

Morphological variation in vanishing Mexican desert fishes of the genus Characodon (Goodeidae).

scientific article published on 09 January 2014

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

scientific article published on 6 October 2009

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

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Parallel shifts of visual sensitivity and body coloration in replicate populations of extremophile fish

scientific article published on 16 November 2021

Parasites in sexual and asexual mollies (Poecilia, Poeciliidae, Teleostei): a case for the Red Queen?

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Phylogenetic analyses of the subgenus Mollienesia (Poecilia, Poeciliidae, Teleostei) reveal taxonomic inconsistencies, cryptic biodiversity, and spatio-temporal aspects of diversification in Middle America

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Physiological adaptation along environmental gradients and replicated hybrid zone structure in swordtails (Teleostei: Xiphophorus).

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

scientific article published in December 2008

Predation of a cave fish (Poecilia mexicana, Poeciliidae) by a giant water-bug (Belostoma, Belostomatidae) in a Mexican sulphur cave

scholarly article by Michael Tobler et al published October 2007 in Ecological Entomology

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

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Reduced opsin gene expression in a cave-dwelling fish

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Reduction of Energetic Demands through Modification of Body Size and Routine Metabolic Rates in Extremophile Fish

scientific article published on 23 March 2015

Relationships between spatio-temporal environmental and genetic variation reveal an important influence of exogenous selection in a pupfish hybrid zone

scientific article published in 2012

Replicated hybrid zones of Xiphophorus swordtails along an elevational gradient

scientific article published on 11 December 2010

Selection from parasites favours immunogenetic diversity but not divergence among locally adapted host populations

scientific article published on 12 April 2014

Spatiotemporal environmental heterogeneity and the maintenance of the tailspot polymorphism in the variable platyfish (Xiphophorus variatus).

scientific article published on 9 January 2016

Subterranean Fishes of Mexico (Poecilia mexicana, Poeciliidae)

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

scientific article published on 18 July 2007

Swimming in polluted waters

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Testing the ecological consequences of evolutionary change using elements

scientific article published on 15 January 2014

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

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The roles of plasticity and evolutionary change in shaping gene expression variation in natural populations of extremophile fish

scientific article published on 19 September 2017

Three new species of Stiphrornis (Aves: Muscicapidae) from the Afro-tropics, with a molecular phylogenetic assessment of the genus

scholarly article by Gary Voelker et al published 28 September 2016 in Systematics and Biodiversity

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

Upstream effects of a reservoir on fish assemblages 45 years following impoundment

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