Publications 2012

• Alp, M., Keller, I., Westram, A.M., Robinson, C.T. (2012) How river structure and biological traits influence gene flow: a population genetic study on two stream invertebrates with differing dispersal ability. Freshwater Biology (early view). DOI: 10.1111/j.1365-2427.2012.02758.x [pdf, 0.6 MB]
  
  
• Blank N, Hudson AG, Vonlanthen P, Seehausen O, Hammerschmidt CR, Senn DB. (2012) Speciation leads to divergent methylmercury accumulation in sympatric whitefish. Aquatic Sciences DOI 10.1007/s00027-012-0271-6 [pdf, 443 KB]
  
  
• Brodersen, J, A. Nicolle, P.A. Nilsson, C. Skov, C. Brönmark, and L.-A. Hansson (2012) Interplay between temperature, fish partial migration and trophic dynamics. Oikos 120:1838-1846  doi: 10.1111/j.1600-0706.2011.19433.x [pdf, 0.7 MB]
• Brodersen, J., P.A. Nilsson, B.B. Chapman, C. Skov, L.-A. Hansson, & C. Brönmark (2012). Variable individual consistency in timing and destination of winter migrating fish. Biology Letters, 8: 21-23.
  
  
• Brodersen, J., F. Landkildehus, T.L. Lauridsen, H.J. Malmquist, S.L. Amsinck, R. Bjerring, M. Søndergaard, L.S. Johansson & E. Jeppesen (2012). Short- and long term niche segregation and individual specialization of brown trout (Salmo trutta) in species poor Faroese lakes. Environmental Biology of Fishes, 93: 305-318.
  
  
• Castillo Cajas, RF, Selz, O, Ripmeester, EAP, Seehausen, O, Maan ME.  (2012) Species-specific relationships between water transparency and male coloration within and between two closely related Lake Victoria cichlid species. International J of Evol Biol, V2012,  doi:10.1155/2012/161306 [pdf, 2.1 MB]
  
  
• Chapman, B.B., C. Skov, K. Hulthen, Brodersen, J,  Nilsson, P.A. , Hansson, L.-A. Brönmark, C (2012). Partial migration in fishes: definitions, methodologies and taxonomic distribution. J of Fish Biology, 81: 479-499.
  
  
• Chapman, B.B., Hulthen, K, Brodersen, J, Skov, C, Nilsson, PA, Hansson, LA, Brönmark, C (2012). Partial migration in fishes: causes and consequences. J of Fish Biology, 81: 456-478.
  
  

• Hering, J, Hoffmann, S, Meierhofer, R, Schmid M, Peter, A (2012) Assessing the Societal Benefits of Applied Research and Expert Consulting in Water Science and Technology. GAIAEA 21/2, 81–160 (2012) [pdf, 436 KB]
  
  

• Hering, JG, Hoehn, E, Klinke, A, Maurer, M, Peter, A, Reichert, P, Robinson, C, Schirmer, K, Schirmer, M, Stamm, C, Wehrli, B (2012) Long-Lived Infrastructure, and Increasing Needs for Integration and Adaptation in Water Management: An Illustration from Switzerland, Environ. Sci. Technol., 2012, 46 (1), pp 112–118 DOI: 10.1021/es202189s [pdf, 0.8 MB]
  
  

• Ingram T, Hudson AG, Vonlanthen P, Seehausen O (2012) Does divergence in spawning depth or diet predict progress toward speciation in parallel whitefish radiations? Evolutionary Ecology Research. [Early Edition]
  
  
• Junker, J, Peter , Wagner CE, Mwaiko S, Germann B, Seehausen O, Keller, I (2012) River fragmentation increases localized population genetic structure and enhancesasymmetry of dispersal in bullhead (Cottus gobio) Conserv Genet, DOI 10.1007/s10592-011-0306-x [pdf, 0.8 MB]
  
  
• Joost, S, Kalbermatten, M, Bezault, E, Seehausen, O (2012) Use of Qualitative Environmental and Phenotypic Variables in the Context of Allele Distribution Models: Detecting Signatures of Selection in the Genome of Lake Victoria Cichlids. In Data Production and Analysis in Population Genomics [pdf, 0.7 MB]
  
  

• Karvonen, A, Seehausen, O, (2012) The role of parasitism in adaptive radiations – when might parasites promote and when might they constrain ecological speciation? International J of Ecol, doi:10.1155/2012/280169  [pdf, 2.4 MB]
  
  
• Karvonen, A, Lundsgaard-Hansen, B, Jokela, J, Seehausen, O. (2012) Differentiation in parasitism among ecotypes of whitefish segregating along depth gradients. Oikos, doi: 10.1111/j.1600-0706.2012.20555.x [pdf, 175 KB]
  
  
• Keller I, Wagner CE, Greuter L, Mwaiko S., Selz O., Sivasundar A, Wittwer S, Seehausen O. (2012) Population genomic signatures of divergent adaptation, gene flow, and hybrid speciation in the rapid radiation of Lake Victoria cichlid fishes. Mol Ecol doi: 10.1111/mec.12083 [pdf, 1.1 MB]
  
  
• Keller I, Schuler J, Bezault E, Seehausen O. (2012) Parallel divergent adaptation along replicated altitudinal gradients in Alpine trout. BMC Evolutionary Biology 12:210 doi:10.1186/1471-2148-12-210 [pdf, 1.3 MB]
  
  
• Liu, Y., Keller, I. Heckel, G. (2012) Breeding site fidelity and winter admixture in a long-distance migrant, the tufted duck (Aythya fuligula). Heredity 109: 108-116 doi:10.1038/hdy.2012.19 [pdf, 0.6 MB]
  
  
• Lucek K, Sivasundar A, Seehausen O. (2012) Evidence of adaptive evolutionary divergence during biological invasion. PLoS One. Vol 7, Issue 11 doi:10.1371/journal.pone.0049377 [pdf, 257 KB]
  
  
• Lucek, K, Haesler, M, Sivasundar, A (2012) When phenotypes do not match genotypes – unexpected phenotypic diversity and potential environmental constraints in Icelandic stickleback. J Hered, Vol 103, Issue 4,, Pp 579-584
  doi: 10.1093/jhered/ess021 [pdf, 163 KB]
  
  
• Maan ME, Seehausen O. (2012) Magic cues versus magic preferences in speciation. Evol Ecol Research, Vol 12 [pdf, 403 KB]
  
  
• Magalhaes, IS, Lundsgaard-Hansen, B, Mwaiko, S, Seehausen, O (2012) Evolutionary divergence in replicate pairs of ecotypes of Lake Victoria cichlid fish. Evolutionary Ecology Research [Early Edition]
  
  

• Melián, C. J., Alonso, D., Allesina, S., Condit, R., Etienne, R. S. (2012). Does Sex Speed Up Evolutionary Rate and Increase Biodiversity? PLoS Comp. Biol. Vol 8, Issue 3,  doi:10.1371/journal.pcbi.1002414  [pdf, 2.0 MB]
  
  
• Purnell, M, Seehausen, O, Galis, F (2012) Quantitative 3D microtextural analysis of tooth wear as a tool for dietary discrimination in fishes. Royal Society Interface doi:10.1098/rsif.2012.014 [pdf, 3.1 MB]
  
  
• Seehausen O. (2012) Integrating ecology and genetics in speciation research. Book review. TREE 1622  [pdf, 109 KB]
  
  

• Seehausen, O. (2012) Conditions when hybridization might predispose populations for adaptive radiation. J of Evol Biol. In Press

• Taborsky, B, Arnold, C, Junker, J, Tschopp, A (2012) The early social environment affects social competence in a cooperative breeder. Animal Behaviour 83, 1067-1074 doi:10.1016/j.anbehav.2012.01.037 [pdf, 239 KB]
  
  

• Vonlanthen, P, Bittner, D, Hudson, A, Young, KA, Müller, R,Lundsgaard-Hansen, B Roy, D, Di Piazza, S, Largiader, CR, Seehausen, O (2012) Eutrophication causes speciation reversal in whitefish adaptive radiations,  Nature 357, Vol 482 [pdf, 1.2 MB]

• Wang, L, Si, W, Yao, Y, Tian, D, Araki, H, Yang, S (2012) Genome-Wide Survey of Pseudogenes in 80 Fully Resequenced Arabidopsis thaliana Accessions. Plos One 7(12) e51769. doi:10.1371/journal.pone.0051769 [pdf, 1.1 MB]
  
  

• Wagner, CE, McCune, S, Lovette, J (2012) Recent speciation between sympatric Tanganyikan cichlid colour morphs. Mol Ecol, doi: 10.1111/j.1365-294X.2012.05607.x [pdf, 460 KB]
  
  

• Wagner, CE, Keller, I, Wittwer, S, Selz, O, Mwaiko, S, Greuter, L, Sivasundar, A, Seehausen, O (2012) Genome-wide RAD sequence data provides unprecedented resolution of species boundaries and relationships in the Lake Victoria cichlid adaptive radiation. Molecular Ecology. doi: 10.1111/mec.12023 [pdf, 2.0 MB]
  
  
• Wagner, CE, Harmon, L, Seehausen O. (2012) Ecological opportunity and sexual selection together predict adaptive radiation, Nature, doi:10.1038/nature11144
  
  
• Witte, F, Seehausen, O, Wankink, JH, Kishe-Machumu, MA, Rensing, M, Goldschmidt T. (2012) Cichlid species diversity in naturally and anthropogenically turbid habitats of Lake Victoria, East Africa. Aquatic Sciences.  doi:10.1007/s00027-012-0265-4 [pdf, 0.5 MB]
  
  
• Weibel, D, Peter, A (2012) Effectiveness of different types of block ramps for fish upstream movement. Aquat Sci DOI 10.1007/s00027-012-0270-7 [pdf, 452 KB]
  
  
• Zeller M, Lucek K, Haesler MP, Seehausen O, Sivasundar A. (2012) Signals of predation-induced directional and disruptive selection in the threespined stickleback. Evolutionary Ecology Research Vol 14: 193-205 [pdf, 286 KB]
  
  
• Zeller, M, Lucek, K, Haesler, M, Seehausen, O, Sivasundar, A. (2012) Little evidence for a selective advantage of armour-reduced threespined stickleback individuals in an invertebrate predation experiment. Evolutionary Ecology. DOI 10.1007/s10682-012-9566-2 [pdf, 0.6 MB]