List of works by Rüdiger Riesch

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

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

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Amazon mollies

Brain size variation in extremophile fish: local adaptation versus phenotypic plasticity

scholarly article by C. Eifert et al published 13 November 2014 in Journal of Zoology: Proceedings of the Zoological Society of London

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

scientific article published on 4 November 2013

Comparative gut content analysis of invasive mosquitofish from Italy and Spain

scientific article published on 16 March 2021

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

scientific article published on 24 June 2010

Consuming Costly Prey: Optimal Foraging and the Role of Compensatory Growth

scientific article published on 18 March 2021

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

scientific article published on 14 October 2009

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

scientific article published on 23 October 2011

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

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 of male coloration during a post-Pleistocene radiation of Bahamas mosquitofish (Gambusia hubbsi).

scientific article published on 11 October 2013

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.

scientific article

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

scientific article published on June 2008

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

scientific article published on 8 May 2013

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

scientific article published on 22 November 2019

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

Hydrogen Sulfide-Toxic Habitats

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

article

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

scientific article

Life histories of guppies (Poecilia reticulata Peters, 1869; Poeciliidae) from the Pitch Lake in Trinidad

scientific article published on 22 October 2019

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

scientific article

Long-term balancing selection on chromosomal variants associated with crypsis in a stick insect

scientific article published on 08 August 2017

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

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 against immigrants maintains differentiation among micro-allopatric populations

scientific article published on 6 October 2009

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

scientific article published in Scientific Reports

Off to new shores: Climate niche expansion in invasive mosquitofish (Gambusia spp.)

scientific article published on 13 December 2021

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

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

scientific article

Phenotypic responses to oil pollution in a poeciliid fish

scientific article published on 21 August 2021

Predation by Three Species of Spiders on a cave Fish in a Mexican Sulphur Cave

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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

Predation's role in life-history evolution of a livebearing fish and a test of the Trexler-DeAngelis model of maternal provisioning

scientific article published on 29 November 2012

Predator avoidance in extremophile fish

scientific article

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

scientific article

Rapid human-induced divergence of life-history strategies in Bahamian livebearing fishes (family Poeciliidae).

scientific article published on 3 August 2015

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

scientific article published in 2006

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

scientific article published on 12 April 2014

Selection on a genetic polymorphism counteracts ecological speciation in a stick insect

scientific article published on 25 June 2015

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

scientific article published on 10 March 2016

Shared and unique patterns of embryo development in extremophile poeciliids

scientific article

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

scientific article (publication date: 16 December 2016)

Size and sex matter: reproductive biology and determinants of offspring survival in<i>Gazella marica</i>

scientific article published on 21 June 2013

Speciation by selection: A framework for understanding ecology’s role in speciation

scientific article published in 2013

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

scientific article

Species in the Making

scientific article

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

scientific article published in 2007

Stability and group specificity of stereotyped whistles in resident killer whales, Orcinus orca, off British Columbia

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

scientific article published on 18 July 2007

The delayed impact of parental age on offspring mortality in mice

scientific article published on 10 August 2011

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

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The predictability and magnitude of life-history divergence to ecological agents of selection: a meta-analysis in livebearing fishes

scientific article published on 15 February 2016

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

Tidying up the cluttered understorey: Foraging strategy mediates bat activity responses to invasive rhododendron

scientific article published on 24 July 2020

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

scientific article published in May 2010

Toxic hydrogen sulphide shapes brain anatomy: a comparative study of sulphide-adapted ecotypes in thePoecilia mexicanacomplex

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Transitions between phases of genomic differentiation during stick-insect speciation.

scientific article

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

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

Two ecological gradients drive phenotypic differentiation of a cave fish over a few hundred metres

scientific article published on 17 January 2022

Two endemic and endangered fishes, Poecilia sulphuraria (Alvarez, 1948) and Gambusia eurystoma Miller, 1975 (Poeciliidae, Teleostei) as only survivors in a small sulphidic habitat

scientific article published in 2008

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

scientific article published on 25 September 2015

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

Whistle communication in mammal-eating killer whales (Orcinus orca): further evidence for acoustic divergence between ecotypes

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Whistle sequences in wild killer whales (Orcinus orca)

scientific article published on 01 September 2008