Publications 2008

Peer reviewed journals

• Araki H., Berejikian B.A., Ford M.J., Blouin M.S. (2008) Fitness of hatchery-reared salmonids in the wild. Evolutionary Applications 1, 342–355 doi:10.1111/j.1752-4571.2008.00026.x [pdf, 228 KB]
  
  
• Zhang W, Yuan H, Sun X, Araki, H., Wang J, Tian D. (2008) The pattern of insertion/deletion polymorphism in Arabidopsis thaliana. Mol Genet Genomics 280 (4), 351-361. DOI 10.1007/s00438-008-0370-1 [Online publication - pdf, 372 KB]
  
  
• Du J., Gu T., Tian H., Araki H., Yang H., Tian D. (2008) Group nucleotide polymorphism: a major contributor to genetic variation in Arabidopsis. Gene 426 (1-2),  1–6 doi:10.1016/j.gene.2008.09.003. [pdf, 0.5 MB]
  
  
• Tian  D., Wang Q., Zhang P., Araki H., Yang S., Kreitman M., Nagylaki T., Richard Hudson, Bergelson J., Che J-Q. (2008) Single-nucleotide mutation rate increases close to insertion-deletions in eukaryotes. Nature 455 (7175), 105-108 doi:10.1038/nature07175 [pdf, 295 KB]
  
  

• Keller I., Veltsos P., Nichols R.A. (2008) The Frequency of rDNA variants within individuals provides evidence of population history and gene flow across a grasshopper hybrid zone. Evolution 62 (4), 833–844  doi:10.1111/j.1558-5646.2008.00320.x [pdf, 1.2 MB]
  
  

• Veltsos P., Keller I., Nichols R.A. (2008) The inexorable spread of a newly arisen Neo-Y Chromosome. PLoS Genet, 4 (5), e1000082, 9pp doi:10.1371 [pdf, 327 KB]
  
  
• Wedekind C., Jacob A., Evanno G., Nussle S., Müller R. (2008) Viability of brown trout embryos positively linked to melanin-based but negatively to carotenoid-based colours of their fathers. P Roy Soc B-Biol Sci 275 (1644), 1737-1744  doi:10.1098/rspb.2008.0072 [pdf, 294 KB]
  
  
• Rudolfsen G., Müller R., Urbach D., Wedekind C. (2008) Predicting the mating system from phenotypic correlations between life-history and sperm quality traits in the Alpine whitefish Coregonus zugensis. Behav Ecol Sociobiol 62 (4), 561-567
  
  
• Mouton A.M., Schneider M, Peter A., Holzer G, Müller R, Goethals PLM, De Pauw, N. (2008) Optimisation of a fuzzy physical habitat model for spawningEuropean grayling (Thymallus thymallus L.) in the Aare river (Thun, Switzerland). Ecol Model 215,122–132, doi:10.1016/j.ecolmodel.2008.02.028 [pdf, 0.7 MB]
  
  
• Burkhardt-Holm P., Segner H., Burki R., Peter  A., Schubert, S., Suter M J-F, Borsuk M.E,. (2008) Estrogenic Endocrine Disruption in Switzerland: Assessment of Fish Exposure and Effects. Chimia 62 (5), 376–382 doi:10.2533/chimia.2008.376 [pdf; KB]
  
  

• Pierotti MER., Knight ME., Immler S., Barson N., Turner GF., Seehausen, O.  (2008) Individual variation in male mating preferences for female colouration in a polymorphic cichlid fish. Behav Ecol 19 (3), 483-488 doi:10.1093/beheco/arm154 [pdf, 121 KB]
  
  
• Schubert S., Peter A., Burki R., Schönenberger R., Suter M.J.E., Segner H., Burkardt-Holm, P. (2008) Sensitivity of brown trout reproduction to long-term estrogenic exposure. Aquatic Toxicology 90 (1), 65-72 doi:10.1016/j.aquatox.2008.08.002 [pdf, 434 KB]
  
  

• Dijkstra P., Seehausen O., Fraterman RE., Groothuis TGG. (2008). Learned aggression biases in Lake Victoria cichlid fish (Pundamilia sp.)  Anim Behav 76 (3), 649-655 doi:10.1016/j.anbehav.2008.03.013 [pdf, 232 KB]
  
  
• Maan ME, Eshuis B, Haesler MP, Schneider MV, Seehausen O, Van Alphen JJM. (2008) Color Polymorphism and Predation in a Lake Victoria Cichlid Fish? Copeia 3, 621–629, DOI: 10.1643/CE-07-114 [pdf, 512 KB]
  
  
• Maan M.E., Van Rooijen A.M.C., Van Alphen J.J.M., Seehausen O. (2008) Parasite-mediated sexual selection and species divergence in Lake Victoria cichlid fish.  Biol J Linn Soc 94, 53-60  [pdf, 134 KB]
  
  

• Seehausen O., Terai Y., Magalhaes IS., Carleton KL., Mrosso HDJ., Miyagi R, Van der Sluijs I., Schneider MV., Maan M., Tachida H., Imai H., Okada N. (2008) Speciation through sensory drive in cichlid fish. Nature 455 (7285), 620-627 doi:10.1038/nature07285 [pdf, 0.5 MB]
  
  
• Stelkens R., Pierotti MER., Joyce D.A., Smith A. M., Van der Sluijs I. Seehausen O.  (2008). Disruptive sexual selection on male nuptial coloration in an experimental hybrid population of cichlid fish. Philos T Roy Soc B 363 (1505), 2861-2870 doi:10.1098/rstb.2008.0049 [pdf, 235 KB]
  
  

• Van der Sluijs I., Van Dooren T. J. M., Hofker K. D., Van Alphen J. J. M., Stelkens R., Seehausen O (2008). Female mating preference functions predict sexual selection against hybrids between sibling species of cichlid fish.  Philos. Trans. R. Soc. Lond. Ser. B-Biol. Sci. 363 (1505), 2871-2877, doi:10.1098/rstb.2008.0045  [pdf, 206 KB]
  
  

• Neuenschwander S., Largiadèr C.R., Ray N., Currat M., Vonlanthen P., Excoffier L.  (2008) Colonization history of the Swiss Rhine basin by the bullhead (Cottus gobio): Inference under a Bayesian spatially explicit framework. Mol Ecol 17 (3), 757-772 doi: 10.1111/j.1365-294X.2007.03621.x [pdf, 508 KB]
  
  

• Van der Sluijs I., Van Dooren T.J.M., Seehausen O., Van Alphen J.J.M.  (2008) A test of fitness consequences of hybridization in sibling species of Lake Victoria cichlid fish.  J Evolution Biol 21 (2), 480 - 491 doi:10.1111/j.1420-9101.2007.01495.x [pdf, 478 KB]