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List of works by Christopher Martin

Adaptive introgression from distant Caribbean islands contributed to the diversification of a microendemic adaptive radiation of trophic specialist pupfishes

scientific article published on 10 August 2017

Allometry indicates giant eyes of giant squid are not exceptional

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Building trophic specializations that result in substantial niche partitioning within a young adaptive radiation

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Comparing Adaptive Radiations Across Space, Time, and Taxa

scientific article published on 01 February 2020

Complex histories of repeated gene flow in Cameroon crater lake cichlids cast doubt on one of the clearest examples of sympatric speciation.

scientific article published on 9 June 2015

Context dependence in complex adaptive landscapes: frequency and trait-dependent selection surfaces within an adaptive radiation of Caribbean pupfishes

scientific article published on 30 April 2016

Diabolical survival in Death Valley: recent pupfish colonization, gene flow and genetic assimilation in the smallest species range on earth

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Don't throw out the sympatric speciation with the crater lake water: fine-scale investigation of introgression provides equivocal support for causal role of secondary gene flow in one of the clearest examples of sympatric speciation

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Fitness landscape of sympatric pupfishes a useful tool for visualizing speciation

scientific article published in May 2014

Geographic variation of caste structure among ant populations

scientific article published in March 2004

Hybrid gene misregulation in multiple developing tissues within a recent adaptive radiation of Cyprinodon pupfishes

scientific article published on 10 July 2019

Hybridization alters the shape of the genotypic fitness landscape, increasing access to novel fitness peaks during adaptive radiation

scientific article published on 26 May 2022

Hydrodynamic Simulations of the Performance Landscape for Suction-Feeding Fishes Reveal Multiple Peaks for Different Prey Types

scientific article published in 2020

Long-distance dispersal over land by fishes: extremely rare ecological events become probable over millennial timescales

scientific article published on 01 June 2018

Molecular and fossil evidence place the origin of cichlid fishes long after Gondwanan rifting

scientific article (publication date: 7 November 2013)

Multiple fitness peaks on the adaptive landscape drive adaptive radiation in the wild

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New evidence for the recent divergence of Devil's Hole pupfish and the plausibility of elevated mutation rates in endangered taxa

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Novel Candidate Genes Underlying Extreme Trophic Specialization in Caribbean Pupfishes

scientific article published on 26 December 2016

Novel trophic niches drive variable progress towards ecological speciation within an adaptive radiation of pupfishes

scientific article published on 17 February 2014

On the measurement of ecological novelty: scale-eating pupfish are separated by 168 my from other scale-eating fishes

scientific article (publication date: 2013)

Oral shelling within an adaptive radiation of pupfishes: testing the adaptive function of novel nasal protrusion and behavioral preference

scientific article published on 11 April 2020

Parallel evolution of gene expression between trophic specialists despite divergent genotypes and morphologies

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Potential enhanced ability of giant squid to detect sperm whales is an exaptation tied to their large body size

scientific article (publication date: 2013)

Rapid adaptive evolution of scale-eating kinematics to a novel ecological niche

scientific article published on 19 March 2020

Searching for Sympatric Speciation in the Genomic Era

scientific article published on 01 July 2019

Speciation in sympatry with ongoing secondary gene flow and a potential olfactory trigger in a radiation of Cameroon cichlids

scientific article published on 27 July 2018

Speciation through the lens of biomechanics: locomotion, prey capture and reproductive isolation

scientific article (publication date: 14 September 2016)

Strong assortative mating by diet, color, size, and morphology but limited progress toward sympatric speciation in a classic example: Cameroon crater lake cichlids.

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Surprising spatiotemporal stability of a multi-peak fitness landscape revealed by independent field experiments measuring hybrid fitness

scientific article published on 21 October 2020

Testing Darwin's Hypothesis about the Wonderful Venus Flytrap: Marginal Spikes Form a "Horrid Prison" for Moderate-Sized Insect Prey

scientific article published on 28 December 2018

The behavioral origins of novelty: did increased aggression lead to scale-eating in pupfishes?

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The complex effects of demographic history on the estimation of substitution rate: concatenated gene analysis results in no more than twofold overestimation.

scientific article published in August 2017

The cryptic origins of evolutionary novelty: 1000-fold faster trophic diversification rates without increased ecological opportunity or hybrid swarm

scientific article published on 5 September 2016

The genetic architecture of novel trophic specialists: larger effect sizes are associated with exceptional oral jaw diversification in a pupfish adaptive radiation

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Trophic Specialization on unique resources despite limited niche divergence in a celebrated example of sympatric speciation

scientific article published in 2022

Trophic novelty is linked to exceptional rates of morphological diversification in two adaptive radiations of Cyprinodon pupfish

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We get by with a little help from our friends: shared adaptive variation provides a bridge to novel ecological specialists during adaptive radiation

scientific article published in 2022

Weak disruptive selection and incomplete phenotypic divergence in two classic examples of sympatric speciation: cameroon crater lake cichlids

scientific article published on 24 August 2012