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Tereza Manousaki; Kathryn Elmer; Paolo Franchini; Chris Harrod; Pincelli M Hull; Henrik Kusche; Gonzalo Machado-Schiaffino; Axel Meyer
Parsing parallel evolution: ecological divergence and differential gene expression in the adaptive radiations of thick-lipped Midas cichlid fishes from Nicaragua.
Frederico Henning; Julia C Jones; Paolo Franchini; Axel Meyer
Transcriptomics of morphological color change in polychromatic Midas cichlids.
Ji Hyoun Kang; Manfred Schartl; Ronald B Walter; Axel Meyer
Comprehensive phylogenetic analysis of all species of swordtails and platies (Pisces: Genus Xiphophorus) uncovers a hybrid origin of a swordtail fish, Xiphophorus monticolus, and demonstrates that the sexually selected sword originated in the ancestral lineage of the genus, but was lost again secondarily.

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2013: Tereza Manousaki; Kathryn Elmer; Paolo Franchini; Chris Harrod; Pincelli M Hull; Henrik Kusche; Gonzalo Machado-Schiaffino; Axel Meyer
Parsing parallel evolution: ecological divergence and differential gene expression in the adaptive radiations of thick-lipped Midas cichlid fishes from Nicaragua.
Molecular ecology 2013;22(3):650-69.
2013: Frederico Henning; Julia C Jones; Paolo Franchini; Axel Meyer
Transcriptomics of morphological color change in polychromatic Midas cichlids.
BMC genomics 2013;14():171.
2013: Ji Hyoun Kang; Manfred Schartl; Ronald B Walter; Axel Meyer
Comprehensive phylogenetic analysis of all species of swordtails and platies (Pisces: Genus Xiphophorus) uncovers a hybrid origin of a swordtail fish, Xiphophorus monticolus, and demonstrates that the sexually selected sword originated in the ancestral lineage of the genus, but was lost again secondarily.
BMC evolutionary biology 2013;13():25.
2013: Helen Gunter; Axel Meyer
Trade-offs in cavefish sensory capacity.
BMC biology 2013;11():5.
2013: Hans Recknagel; Kathryn Elmer; Axel Meyer
A hybrid genetic linkage map of two ecologically and morphologically divergent Midas cichlid fishes (Amphilophus spp.) obtained by massively parallel DNA sequencing (ddRADSeq).
G3 (Bethesda, Md.) 2013;3(1):65-74.
2013: Kathryn Elmer; Shaohua Fan; Topi Lehtonen; Axel Meyer
Crater lake colonization by neotropical cichlid fishes.
Evolution; international journal of organic evolution 2013;67(1):281-8.
2012: Henrik Kusche; Hyuk Je Lee; Axel Meyer
Mouth asymmetry in the textbook example of scale-eating cichlid fish is not a discrete dimorphism after all.
Proceedings. Biological sciences / The Royal Society 2012;279(1748):4715-23.
2012: Andreas F Kautt; Kathryn Elmer; Axel Meyer
Genomic signatures of divergent selection and speciation patterns in a 'natural experiment', the young parallel radiations of Nicaraguan crater lake cichlid fishes.
Molecular ecology 2012;21(19):4770-86.
2012: Julia C Jones; Juan-Antonio Perez-Sato; Axel Meyer
A phylogeographic investigation of the hybrid origin of a species of swordtail fish from Mexico.
Molecular ecology 2012;21(11):2692-712.
2012: Hyuk Je Lee; Henrik Kusche; Axel Meyer
Handed foraging behavior in scale-eating cichlid fish: its potential role in shaping morphological asymmetry.
PloS one 2012;7(9):e44670.
2012: Frederico Henning; Axel Meyer
Eggspot number and sexual selection in the cichlid fish Astatotilapia burtoni.
PloS one 2012;7(8):e43695.
2012: Shigehiro Kuraku; Huan Qiu; Axel Meyer
Horizontal transfers of Tc1 elements between teleost fishes and their vertebrate parasites, lampreys.
Genome biology and evolution 2012;4(9):929-36.
2012: Topi Lehtonen; Jeffrey K McCrary; Axel Meyer
Introduced predator elicits deficient brood defence behaviour in a crater lake fish.
PloS one 2012;7(1):e30064.
2011: Nathalie Feiner; Rolf Ericsson; Axel Meyer; Shigehiro Kuraku
Revisiting the origin of the vertebrate Hox14 by including its relict sarcopterygian members.
Journal of experimental zoology. Part B, Molecular and developmental evolution 2011;316(7):515-25.
2011: Tereza Manousaki; Axel Meyer; Gerrit Begemann; Nathalie Feiner; Shigehiro Kuraku
Co-orthology of Pax4 and Pax6 to the fly eyeless gene: molecular phylogenetic, comparative genomic, and embryological analyses.
Evolution & development 2011;13(5):448-59.
2011: Christophe Dessimoz; Tereza Manousaki; Axel Meyer; Huan Qiu; Stefan Zoller; Shigehiro Kuraku
Comparative genomics approach to detecting split-coding regions in a low-coverage genome: lessons from the chimaera Callorhinchus milii (Holocephali, Chondrichthyes).
Briefings in bioinformatics 2011;12(5):474-84.
2011: Topi Lehtonen; Axel Meyer
Heritability and adaptive significance of the number of egg-dummies in the cichlid fish Astatotilapia burtoni.
Proceedings. Biological sciences / The Royal Society 2011;278(1716):2318-24.
2011: Shaohua Fan; Kathryn Elmer; Axel Meyer
Positive Darwinian selection drives the evolution of the morphology-related gene, EPCAM, in particularly species-rich lineages of African cichlid fishes.
Journal of molecular evolution 2011;73(1-2):1-9.
2011: Kathryn R Elmer; Axel Meyer
Adaptation in the age of ecological genomics: insights from parallelism and convergence.
Trends in ecology & evolution 2011;26(6):298-306.
2011: Helen M Gunter; Céline Clabaut; Walter Salzburger; Axel Meyer
Identification and characterization of gene expression involved in the coloration of cichlid fish using microarray and qRT-PCR approaches.
Journal of molecular evolution 2011;72(2):127-37.
2011: Huan Qiu; Falk Hildebrand; Shigehiro Kuraku; Axel Meyer
Unresolved orthology and peculiar coding sequence properties of lamprey genes: the KCNA gene family as test case.
BMC genomics 2011;12():325.
2011: Moritz Muschick; Marta Barluenga; Walter Salzburger; Axel Meyer
Adaptive phenotypic plasticity in the Midas cichlid fish pharyngeal jaw and its relevance in adaptive radiation.
BMC evolutionary biology 2011;11():116.
2011: Adina J Renz; Helen M Gunter; Jan Mf Fischer; Huan Qiu; Axel Meyer; Shigehiro Kuraku
Ancestral and derived attributes of the dlx gene repertoire, cluster structure and expression patterns in an African cichlid fish.
EvoDevo 2011;2(1):1.
2010: Axel Meyer
George C. Williams (1926-2010).
Nature 2010;467(7317):790.
2010: F M Muenzel; Walter Salzburger; Matthias Sanetra; B Grabherr; Axel Meyer
Genetic structure of the vairone Telestes souffia in the eastern part of Lake Constance, central Europe.
Journal of fish biology 2010;77(5):1158-64.
2010: S Wielgoss; F Hollandt; Thierry Wirth; Axel Meyer
Genetic signatures in an invasive parasite of Anguilla anguilla correlate with differential stock management.
Journal of fish biology 2010;77(1):191-210.
2010: Kathryn Elmer; Henrik Kusche; Topi Lehtonen; Axel Meyer
Local variation and parallel evolution: morphological and genetic diversity across a species complex of neotropical crater lake cichlid fishes.
Philosophical transactions of the Royal Society of London. Series B, Biological sciences 2010;365(1547):1763-82.
2010: Topi Lehtonen; Jeffrey K McCrary; Axel Meyer
Territorial aggression can be sensitive to the status of heterospecific intruders.
Behavioural processes 2010;84(2):598-601.
2010: H J Lee; S Pittlik; J C Jones; Walter Salzburger; Marta Barluenga; Axel Meyer
Genetic support for random mating between left and right-mouth morphs in the dimorphic scale-eating cichlid fish Perissodus microlepis from Lake Tanganyika.
Journal of fish biology 2010;76(8):1940-57.
2010: Kathryn Elmer; Axel Meyer
Sympatric speciation without borders?
Molecular ecology 2010;19(10):1991-3.
2010: Frederico Henning; Adina Josepha Renz; Shoji Fukamachi; Axel Meyer
Genetic, comparative genomic, and expression analyses of the Mc1r locus in the polychromatic Midas cichlid fish (Teleostei, Cichlidae Amphilophus sp.) species group.
Journal of molecular evolution 2010;70(5):405-12.
2010: Kathryn Elmer; S Fan; H M Gunter; J C Jones; Sven Boekhoff; Shigehiro Kuraku; Axel Meyer
Rapid evolution and selection inferred from the transcriptomes of sympatric crater lake cichlid fishes.
Molecular ecology 2010;19 Suppl 1():197-211.
2010: Yves Van de Peer; Steven Maere; Axel Meyer
2R or not 2R is not the question anymore.
Nature reviews. Genetics 2010;11(2):166.
2010: Michael Lang; Yavor Hadzhiev; Nicol Siegel; Chris T Amemiya; Carolina Parada; Uwe Strähle; May-Britt Becker; Ferenc Müller; Axel Meyer
Conservation of shh cis-regulatory architecture of the coelacanth is consistent with its ancestral phylogenetic position.
EvoDevo 2010;1(1):11.
2010: Marta Barluenga; Axel Meyer
Phylogeography, colonization and population history of the Midas cichlid species complex (Amphilophus spp.) in the Nicaraguan crater lakes.
BMC evolutionary biology 2010;10():326.
2010: Kathryn Elmer; Topi Lehtonen; Andreas F Kautt; Chris Harrod; Axel Meyer
Rapid sympatric ecological differentiation of crater lake cichlid fishes within historic times.
BMC biology 2010;8():60.
2009: Yves Van de Peer; Steven Maere; Axel Meyer
The evolutionary significance of ancient genome duplications.
Nature reviews. Genetics 2009;10(10):725-32.
2009: Kathryn Elmer; Topi Lehtonen; Axel Meyer
Color assortative mating contributes to sympatric divergence of neotropical cichlid fish.
Evolution; international journal of organic evolution 2009;63(10):2750-7.
2009: Walter Salzburger; Dirk Steinke; Ingo Braasch; Axel Meyer
Genome desertification in eutherians: can gene deserts explain the uneven distribution of genes in placental mammalian genomes?
Journal of molecular evolution 2009;69(3):207-16.
2009: Kathryn Elmer; Chiara Reggio; Thierry Wirth; Erik Verheyen; Walter Salzburger; Axel Meyer
Pleistocene desiccation in East Africa bottlenecked but did not extirpate the adaptive radiation of Lake Victoria haplochromine cichlid fishes.
Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America 2009;106(32):13404-9.
2009: Shoji Fukamachi; Takashi Yada; Axel Meyer; Masato Kinoshita
Effects of constitutive expression of somatolactin alpha on skin pigmentation in medaka.
Gene 2009;442(1-2):81-7.
2009: Nils Offen; Axel Meyer; Gerrit Begemann
Identification of novel genes involved in the development of the sword and gonopodium in swordtail fish.
Developmental dynamics : an official publication of the American Association of Anatomists 2009;238(7):1674-87.
2009: Matthias Sanetra; Frederico Henning; Shoji Fukamachi; Axel Meyer
A microsatellite-based genetic linkage map of the cichlid fish, Astatotilapia burtoni (Teleostei): a comparison of genomic architectures among rapidly speciating cichlids.
Genetics 2009;182(1):387-97.
2009: Ylenia Chiari; Arie van der Meijden; Ole Madsen; Miguel Vences; Axel Meyer
Base composition, selection, and phylogenetic significance of indels in the recombination activating gene-1 in vertebrates.
Frontiers in zoology 2009;6():32.
2009: Nathalie Feiner; Gerrit Begemann; Adina J Renz; Axel Meyer; Shigehiro Kuraku
The origin of bmp16, a novel Bmp2/4 relative, retained in teleost fish genomes.
BMC evolutionary biology 2009;9():277.
2009: Shoji Fukamachi; Masato Kinoshita; Kouichi Aizawa; Shoji Oda; Axel Meyer; Hiroshi Mitani
Dual control by a single gene of secondary sexual characters and mating preferences in medaka.
BMC biology 2009;7():64.
2009: Shigehiro Kuraku; Axel Meyer
The evolution and maintenance of Hox gene clusters in vertebrates and the teleost-specific genome duplication.
The International journal of developmental biology 2009;53(5-6):765-73.
2008: Shigehiro Kuraku; Axel Meyer
Genomic analysis of cichlid fish 'natural mutants'.
Current opinion in genetics & development 2008;18(6):551-8.
2008: S Wielgoss; Thierry Wirth; Axel Meyer
Isolation and characterization of 12 dinucleotide microsatellites in the European eel, Anguilla anguilla L., and tests of amplification in other species of eels.
Molecular ecology resources 2008;8(6):1382-5.
2008: Stefan Pils; Dave T Gerrard; Axel Meyer; Christof R Hauck
CEACAM3: an innate immune receptor directed against human-restricted bacterial pathogens.
International journal of medical microbiology : IJMM 2008;298(7-8):553-60.
2008: Sébastien Wielgoss; Horst Taraschewski; Axel Meyer; Thierry Wirth
Population structure of the parasitic nematode Anguillicola crassus, an invader of declining North Atlantic eel stocks.
Molecular ecology 2008;17(15):3478-95.
2008: Cornelius Eibner; Silke Pittlik; Axel Meyer; Gerrit Begemann
An organizer controls the development of the "sword," a sexually selected trait in swordtail fish.
Evolution & development 2008;10(4):403-12.
2008: Silke Pittlik; Susana Domingues; Axel Meyer; Gerrit Begemann
Expression of zebrafish aldh1a3 (raldh3) and absence of aldh1a1 in teleosts.
Gene expression patterns : GEP 2008;8(3):141-7.
2008: Nils Offen; Nicola Blum; Axel Meyer; Gerrit Begemann
Fgfr1 signalling in the development of a sexually selected trait in vertebrates, the sword of swordtail fish.
BMC developmental biology 2008;8():98.
2008: Julia C Jones; Helen M Gunter; Axel Meyer
Will he still look good with the lights on? Spectral tuning of visual pigments in fish.
Journal of biology 2008;7(7):26.
2008: Thierry Wirth; Falk Hildebrand; Caroline Allix-Béguec; Florian Wölbeling; Tanja Kubica; Kristin Kremer; Dick Van Soolingen; Sabine Rüsch-Gerdes; Camille Locht; Sylvain Brisse; Axel Meyer; Philip Supply; Stefan Niemann
Origin, spread and demography of the Mycobacterium tuberculosis complex.
PLoS pathogens 2008;4(9):e1000160.
2008: Anthony B Wilson; Guy G Teugels; Axel Meyer
Marine incursion: the freshwater herring of Lake Tanganyika are the product of a marine invasion into west Africa.
PloS one 2008;3(4):e1979.
2008: Walter Salzburger; Susan C P Renn; Dirk Steinke; Ingo Braasch; Hans A Hofmann; Axel Meyer
Annotation of expressed sequence tags for the East African cichlid fish Astatotilapia burtoni and evolutionary analyses of cichlid ORFs.
BMC genomics 2008;9():96.
2008: Christian Michel; Brendan J Hicks; Kai N Stölting; Andrew C Clarke; Mark I Stevens; Ray Tana; Axel Meyer; Michael R van den Heuvel
Distinct migratory and non-migratory ecotypes of an endemic New Zealand eleotrid (Gobiomorphus cotidianus) - implications for incipient speciation in island freshwater fish species.
BMC evolutionary biology 2008;8():49.
2007: Thierry Wirth; Giovanna Morelli; Barica Kusecek; Alex Van Belkum; Cindy van der Schee; Axel Meyer; Mark Achtman
The rise and spread of a new pathogen: seroresistant Moraxella catarrhalis.
Genome research 2007;17(11):1647-56.
2007: Shoji Fukamachi; Axel Meyer
Evolution of receptors for growth hormone and somatolactin in fish and land vertebrates: lessons from the lungfish and sturgeon orthologues.
Journal of molecular evolution 2007;65(4):359-72.
2007: Katharina C Wollenberg; Frank Glaw; Axel Meyer; Miguel Vences
Molecular phylogeny of Malagasy reed frogs, Heterixalus, and the relative performance of bioacoustics and color-patterns for resolving their systematics.
Molecular phylogenetics and evolution 2007;45(1):14-22.
2007: Dave T Gerrard; Axel Meyer
Positive selection and gene conversion in SPP120, a fertilization-related gene, during the East African cichlid fish radiation.
Molecular biology and evolution 2007;24(10):2286-97.
2007: Arie van der Meijden; Miguel Vences; Simone Hoegg; Renaud Boistel; Alan Channing; Axel Meyer
Nuclear gene phylogeny of narrow-mouthed toads (Family: Microhylidae) and a discussion of competing hypotheses concerning their biogeographical origins.
Molecular phylogenetics and evolution 2007;44(3):1017-30.
2007: Sergey Gavrilets; Aaron Vose; Marta Barluenga; Walter Salzburger; Axel Meyer
Case studies and mathematical models of ecological speciation. 1. Cichlids in a crater lake.
Molecular ecology 2007;16(14):2893-909.
2007: Tomas Hrbek; Jens Seckinger; Axel Meyer
A phylogenetic and biogeographic perspective on the evolution of poeciliid fishes.
Molecular phylogenetics and evolution 2007;43(3):986-98.
2007: Jing Luo; Peter F Stadler; Shunping He; Axel Meyer
PCR survey of hox genes in the goldfish Carassius auratus auratus.
Journal of experimental zoology. Part B, Molecular and developmental evolution 2007;308(3):250-8.
2007: Céline Clabaut; Paul M E Bunje; Walter Salzburger; Axel Meyer
Geometric morphometric analyses provide evidence for the adaptive character of the Tanganyikan cichlid fish radiations.
Evolution; international journal of organic evolution 2007;61(3):560-78.
2007: Walter Salzburger; Ingo Braasch; Axel Meyer
Adaptive sequence evolution in a color gene involved in the formation of the characteristic egg-dummies of male haplochromine cichlid fishes.
BMC biology 2007;5():51.
2007: Simone Hoegg; Jeffrey L Boore; Jennifer V Kuehl; Axel Meyer
Comparative phylogenomic analyses of teleost fish Hox gene clusters: lessons from the cichlid fish Astatotilapia burtoni.
BMC genomics 2007;8():317.
2007: Nicol Siegel; Simone Hoegg; Walter Salzburger; Ingo Braasch; Axel Meyer
Comparative genomics of ParaHox clusters of teleost fishes: gene cluster breakup and the retention of gene sets following whole genome duplications.
BMC genomics 2007;8():312.
2007: Simone Hoegg; Axel Meyer
Phylogenomic analyses of KCNA gene clusters in vertebrates: why do gene clusters stay intact?
BMC evolutionary biology 2007;7():139.
2007: Paul M E Bunje; Marta Barluenga; Axel Meyer
Sampling genetic diversity in the sympatrically and allopatrically speciating Midas cichlid species complex over a 16 year time series.
BMC evolutionary biology 2007;7():25.
2006: Jing Luo; Michael Lang; Walter Salzburger; Nicol Siegel; Kai N Stölting; Axel Meyer
A BAC library for the goldfish Carassius auratus auratus (Cyprinidae, Cypriniformes).
Journal of experimental zoology. Part B, Molecular and developmental evolution 2006;306(6):567-74.
2006: Axel Meyer
Repeating patterns of mimicry.
PLoS biology 2006;4(10):e341.
2006: Marta Barluenga; Matthias Sanetra; Axel Meyer
Genetic admixture of burbot (Teleostei: Lota lota) in Lake Constance from two European glacial refugia.
Molecular ecology 2006;15(12):3583-600.
2006: Yann Gibert; Alexandra Gajewski; Axel Meyer; Gerrit Begemann
Induction and prepatterning of the zebrafish pectoral fin bud requires axial retinoic acid signaling.
Development (Cambridge, England) 2006;133(14):2649-59.
2006: Dirk Steinke; Walter Salzburger; Axel Meyer
Novel relationships among ten fish model species revealed based on a phylogenomic analysis using ESTs.
Journal of molecular evolution 2006;62(6):772-84.
2006: Ingo Braasch; Walter Salzburger; Axel Meyer
Asymmetric evolution in two fish-specifically duplicated receptor tyrosine kinase paralogons involved in teleost coloration.
Molecular biology and evolution 2006;23(6):1192-202.
2006: David R Vieites; Ylenia Chiari; Miguel Vences; Franco Andreone; Falitiana Rabemananjara; Parfait Bora; Sandra Nieto-Román; Axel Meyer
Mitochondrial evidence for distinct phylogeographic units in the endangered Malagasy poison frog Mantella bernhardi.
Molecular ecology 2006;15(6):1617-25.
2006: Axel Meyer; Walter Salzburger; Manfred Schartl
Hybrid origin of a swordtail species (Teleostei: Xiphophorus clemenciae) driven by sexual selection.
Molecular ecology 2006;15(3):721-30.
2006: Marta Barluenga; Kai N Stölting; Walter Salzburger; Moritz Muschick; Axel Meyer
Sympatric speciation in Nicaraguan crater lake cichlid fish.
Nature 2006;439(7077):719-23.
2006: Michael Lang; Tsutomu Miyake; Ingo Braasch; Deborah Tinnemore; Nicol Siegel; Walter Salzburger; Chris T Amemiya; Axel Meyer
A BAC library of the East African haplochromine cichlid fish Astatotilapia burtoni.
Journal of experimental zoology. Part B, Molecular and developmental evolution 2006;306(1):35-44.
2006: Stephan Koblmüller; Christian Sturmbauer; Erik Verheyen; Axel Meyer; Walter Salzburger
Mitochondrial phylogeny and phylogeography of East African squeaker catfishes (Siluriformes: Synodontis).
BMC evolutionary biology 2006;6():49.
2006: Dirk Steinke; Simone Hoegg; Henner Brinkmann; Axel Meyer
Three rounds (1R/2R/3R) of genome duplications and the evolution of the glycolytic pathway in vertebrates.
BMC biology 2006;4():16.
2006: Dirk Steinke; Walter Salzburger; Ingo Braasch; Axel Meyer
Many genes in fish have species-specific asymmetric rates of molecular evolution.
BMC genomics 2006;7():20.
2005: Axel Meyer
Evolutionary Biology: Cichlid species flocks of the past and present.
Heredity 2005;95(6):419-20.
2005: Arie van der Meijden; Miguel Vences; Simone Hoegg; Axel Meyer
A previously unrecognized radiation of ranid frogs in Southern Africa revealed by nuclear and mitochondrial DNA sequences.
Molecular phylogenetics and evolution 2005;37(3):674-85.
2005: Céline Clabaut; Walter Salzburger; Axel Meyer
Comparative phylogenetic analyses of the adaptive radiation of Lake Tanganyika cichlid fish: nuclear sequences are less homoplasious but also less informative than mitochondrial DNA.
Journal of molecular evolution 2005;61(5):666-81.
2005: Wenli Gu; Yann Gibert; Thierry Wirth; Andrea Elischer; Wilhelm Bloch; Axel Meyer; Ortrud K Steinlein; Gerrit Begemann
Using gene-history and expression analyses to assess the involvement of LGI genes in human disorders.
Molecular biology and evolution 2005;22(11):2209-16.
2005: Dirk Steinke; Miguel Vences; Walter Salzburger; Axel Meyer
TaxI: a software tool for DNA barcoding using distance methods.
Philosophical transactions of the Royal Society of London. Series B, Biological sciences 2005;360(1462):1975-80.
2005: Matthias Sanetra; Gerrit Begemann; May-Britt Becker; Axel Meyer
Conservation and co-option in developmental programmes: the importance of homology relationships.
Frontiers in zoology 2005;2():15.
2005: Thierry Wirth; Axel Meyer; Mark Achtman
Deciphering host migrations and origins by means of their microbes.
Molecular ecology 2005;14(11):3289-306.
2005: Axel Meyer; Yves Van de Peer
From 2R to 3R: evidence for a fish-specific genome duplication (FSGD).
BioEssays : news and reviews in molecular, cellular and developmental biology 2005;27(9):937-45.
2005: Simone Hoegg; Axel Meyer
Hox clusters as models for vertebrate genome evolution.
Trends in genetics : TIG 2005;21(8):421-4.
2005: Yann Gibert; D Randy McMillan; Kathleen Kayes-Wandover; Axel Meyer; Gerrit Begemann; Perrin C White
Analysis of the very large G-protein coupled receptor gene (Vlgr1/Mass1/USH2C) in zebrafish.
Gene 2005;353(2):200-6.
2005: J Luo; Matthias Sanetra; Manfred Schartl; Axel Meyer
Strong reproductive skew among males in the multiply mated swordtail Xiphophorus multilineatus (Teleostei).
The Journal of heredity 2005;96(4):346-55.
2005: Marta Barluenga; Axel Meyer
Old fish in a young lake: stone loach (Pisces: Barbatula barbatula) populations in Lake Constance are genetically isolated by distance.
Molecular ecology 2005;14(4):1229-39.
2005: Franco Andreone; Miguel Vences; David R Vieites; Frank Glaw; Axel Meyer
Recurrent ecological adaptations revealed through a molecular analysis of the secretive cophyline frogs of Madagascar.
Molecular phylogenetics and evolution 2005;34(2):315-22.
2005: Walter Salzburger; Tanja Mack; Erik Verheyen; Axel Meyer
Out of Tanganyika: genesis, explosive speciation, key-innovations and phylogeography of the haplochromine cichlid fishes.
BMC evolutionary biology 2005;5():17.
2004: Thomas von Rintelen; Anthony B Wilson; Axel Meyer; Matthias Glaubrecht
Escalation and trophic specialization drive adaptive radiation of freshwater gastropods in ancient lakes on Sulawesi, Indonesia.
Proceedings. Biological sciences / The Royal Society 2004;271(1557):2541-9.
2004: Henner Brinkmann; Angelika Denk; Jürgen Zitzler; Jean J Joss; Axel Meyer
Complete mitochondrial genome sequences of the South american and the Australian lungfish: testing of the phylogenetic performance of mitochondrial data sets for phylogenetic problems in tetrapod relationships.
Journal of molecular evolution 2004;59(6):834-48.
2004: Ylenia Chiari; Miguel Vences; David R Vieites; F Rabemananjara; P Bora; O Ramilijaona Ravoahangimalala; Axel Meyer
New evidence for parallel evolution of colour patterns in Malagasy poison frogs (Mantella).
Molecular ecology 2004;13(12):3763-74.
2004: Frank Köhler; Thomas von Rintelen; Axel Meyer; Matthias Glaubrecht
Multiple origin of viviparity in Southeast Asian gastropods (Cerithioidea: Pachychilidae) and its evolutionary implications.
Evolution; international journal of organic evolution 2004;58(10):2215-26.
2004: David R Vieites; Sandra Nieto-Román; Marta Barluenga; Antonio Palanca; Miguel Vences; Axel Meyer
Post-mating clutch piracy in an amphibian.
Nature 2004;431(7006):305-8.
2004: Romulus Abila; Marta Barluenga; Johannes Engelken; Axel Meyer; Walter Salzburger
Population-structure and genetic diversity in a haplochromine cichlid fish [corrected] of a satellite lake of Lake Victoria.
Molecular ecology 2004;13(9):2589-602.
2004: Wei-Jen Chen; Guillermo Ortí; Axel Meyer
Novel evolutionary relationship among four fish model systems.
Trends in genetics : TIG 2004;20(9):424-31.
2004: Arie van der Meijden; Miguel Vences; Axel Meyer
Novel phylogenetic relationships of the enigmatic brevicipitine and scaphiophrynine toads as revealed by sequences from the nuclear Rag-1 gene.
Proceedings. Biological sciences / The Royal Society 2004;271 Suppl 5():S378-81.
2004: Simone Hoegg; Henner Brinkmann; John S Taylor; Axel Meyer
Phylogenetic timing of the fish-specific genome duplication correlates with the diversification of teleost fish.
Journal of molecular evolution 2004;59(2):190-203.
2004: Gerrit Begemann; Monika Marx; K Mebus; Axel Meyer; Martin Bastmeyer
Beyond the neckless phenotype: influence of reduced retinoic acid signaling on motor neuron development in the zebrafish hindbrain.
Developmental biology 2004;271(1):119-29.
2004: Marta Barluenga; Axel Meyer
The Midas cichlid species complex: incipient sympatric speciation in Nicaraguan cichlid fishes?
Molecular ecology 2004;13(7):2061-76.
2004: Tomas Hrbek; Kai N Stölting; Fevzi Bardakci; Fahrettin Küçük; Rudolf H Wildekamp; Axel Meyer
Plate tectonics and biogeographical patterns of the Pseudophoxinus (Pisces: Cypriniformes) species complex of central Anatolia, Turkey.
Molecular phylogenetics and evolution 2004;32(1):297-308.
2004: Simone Hoegg; Miguel Vences; Henner Brinkmann; Axel Meyer
Phylogeny and comparative substitution rates of frogs inferred from sequences of three nuclear genes.
Molecular biology and evolution 2004;21(7):1188-200.
2004: Walter Salzburger; Axel Meyer
The species flocks of East African cichlid fishes: recent advances in molecular phylogenetics and population genetics.
Die Naturwissenschaften 2004;91(6):277-90.
2004: Axel Meyer
Learning from the Altmeister.
Nature 2004;428(6986):897.
2004: Henner Brinkmann; Byrappa Venkatesh; Sydney Brenner; Axel Meyer
Nuclear protein-coding genes support lungfish and not the coelacanth as the closest living relatives of land vertebrates.
Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America 2004;101(14):4900-5.
2004: Anthony B Wilson; Matthias Glaubrecht; Axel Meyer
Ancient lakes as evolutionary reservoirs: evidence from the thalassoid gastropods of Lake Tanganyika.
Proceedings. Biological sciences / The Royal Society 2004;271(1538):529-36.
2004: Klaas Vandepoele; Wouter De Vos; John S Taylor; Axel Meyer; Yves Van de Peer
Major events in the genome evolution of vertebrates: paranome age and size differ considerably between ray-finned fishes and land vertebrates.
Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America 2004;101(6):1638-43.
2004: Miguel Vences; Ylenia Chiari; Liliane Raharivololoniaina; Axel Meyer
High mitochondrial diversity within and among populations of Malagasy poison frogs.
Molecular phylogenetics and evolution 2004;30(2):295-307.
2003: Miguel Vences; David R Vieites; Frank Glaw; Henner Brinkmann; Joachim Kosuch; Michael Veith; Axel Meyer
Multiple overseas dispersal in amphibians.
Proceedings. Biological sciences / The Royal Society 2003;270(1532):2435-42.
2003: Hans Zauner; Gerrit Begemann; Manuel Marí-Beffa; Axel Meyer
Differential regulation of msx genes in the development of the gonopodium, an intromittent organ, and of the "sword," a sexually selected trait of swordtail fishes (Xiphophorus).
Evolution & development 2003;5(5):466-77.
2003: Walter Salzburger; Anita Brandstätter; André Gilles; Walther Parson; Melanie Hempel; Christian Sturmbauer; Axel Meyer
Phylogeography of the vairone (Leuciscus souffia, Risso 1826) in Central Europe.
Molecular ecology 2003;12(9):2371-86.
2003: Anthony B Wilson; Ingrid Ahnesjö; Amanda C J Vincent; Axel Meyer
The dynamics of male brooding, mating patterns, and sex roles in pipefishes and seahorses (family Syngnathidae).
Evolution; international journal of organic evolution 2003;57(6):1374-86.
2003: Simona Santini; Jeffrey L Boore; Axel Meyer
Evolutionary conservation of regulatory elements in vertebrate Hox gene clusters.
Genome research 2003;13(6A):1111-22.
2003: Erik Verheyen; Walter Salzburger; Jos Snoeks; Axel Meyer
Origin of the superflock of cichlid fishes from Lake Victoria, East Africa.
Science (New York, N.Y.) 2003;300(5617):325-9.
2003: John S Taylor; Ingo Braasch; Tancred Frickey; Axel Meyer; Yves Van de Peer
Genome duplication, a trait shared by 22000 species of ray-finned fish.
Genome research 2003;13(3):382-90.
2003: Tomas Hrbek; Axel Meyer
Closing of the Tethys Sea and the phylogeny of Eurasian killifishes (Cyprinodontiformes: Cyprinodontidae).
Journal of evolutionary biology 2003;16(1):17-36.
2003: Yves Van de Peer; John S Taylor; Axel Meyer
Are all fishes ancient polyploids?
Journal of structural and functional genomics 2003;3(1-4):65-73.
2003: Axel Meyer; Yves Van de Peer
'Natural selection merely modified while redundancy created'--Susumu Ohno's idea of the evolutionary importance of gene and genome duplications.
Journal of structural and functional genomics 2003;3(1-4):vii-ix.
2002: Christian Peter Klingenberg; Marta Barluenga; Axel Meyer
Shape analysis of symmetric structures: quantifying variation among individuals and asymmetry.
Evolution; international journal of organic evolution 2002;56(10):1909-20.
2002: Tomas Hrbek; Fahrettin Küçük; Tancred Frickey; Kai N Stölting; Rudolph H Wildekamp; Axel Meyer
Molecular phylogeny and historical biogeography of the Aphanius (Pisces, Cyprinodontiformes) species complex of central Anatolia, Turkey.
Molecular phylogenetics and evolution 2002;25(1):125-137.
2002: Yves Van de Peer; Tancred Frickey; John Taylor; Axel Meyer
Dealing with saturation at the amino acid level: a case study based on anciently duplicated zebrafish genes.
Gene 2002;295(2):205-11.
2002: Miguel Vences; Franco Andreone; Frank Glaw; Joachim Kosuch; Axel Meyer; H-C Schaefer; Michael Veith
Exploring the potential of life-history key innovation: brook breeding in the radiation of the Malagasy treefrog genus Boophis.
Molecular ecology 2002;11(8):1453-63.
2002: Gerrit Begemann; Yann Gibert; Axel Meyer; Philip Ingham
Cloning of zebrafish T-box genes tbx15 and tbx18 and their expression during embryonic development.
Mechanisms of development 2002;114(1-2):137-41.
2002: Vera Klett; Axel Meyer
What, if anything, is a Tilapia?-mitochondrial ND2 phylogeny of tilapiines and the evolution of parental care systems in the African cichlid fishes.
Molecular biology and evolution 2002;19(6):865-83.
2002: Miroslav Oborník; Yves Van de Peer; Václav Hypsa; Tancred Frickey; Jan R Slapeta; Axel Meyer; Julius Lukes
Phylogenetic analyses suggest lateral gene transfer from the mitochondrion to the apicoplast.
Gene 2002;285(1-2):109-18.
2002: Walter Salzburger; Axel Meyer; Sanja Baric; Erik Verheyen; Christian Sturmbauer
Phylogeny of the Lake Tanganyika cichlid species flock and its relationship to the Central and East African haplochromine cichlid fish faunas.
Systematic biology 2002;51(1):113-35.
2002: Edward Málaga-Trillo; Ute Laessing; Dirk M Lang; Axel Meyer; Claudia A O Stuermer
Evolution of duplicated reggie genes in zebrafish and goldfish.
Journal of molecular evolution 2002;54(2):235-45.
2002: Yves Van de Peer; John S Taylor; Jayabalan Joseph; Axel Meyer
Wanda: a database of duplicated fish genes.
Nucleic acids research 2002;30(1):109-12.
2001: Gerrit Begemann; Axel Meyer
Hindbrain patterning revisited: timing and effects of retinoic acid signalling.
BioEssays : news and reviews in molecular, cellular and developmental biology 2001;23(11):981-6.
2001: John S Taylor; Yves Van de Peer; Ingo Braasch; Axel Meyer
Comparative genomics provides evidence for an ancient genome duplication event in fish.
Philosophical transactions of the Royal Society of London. Series B, Biological sciences 2001;356(1414):1661-79.
2001: Yves Van de Peer; John S Taylor; Ingo Braasch; Axel Meyer
The ghost of selection past: rates of evolution and functional divergence of anciently duplicated genes.
Journal of molecular evolution 2001;53(4-5):436-46.
2001: John S Taylor; Yves Van de Peer; Axel Meyer
Genome duplication, divergent resolution and speciation.
Trends in genetics : TIG 2001;17(6):299-301.
2001: L Rüber; Axel Meyer; Christian Sturmbauer; Erik Verheyen
Population structure in two sympatric species of the Lake Tanganyika cichlid tribe Eretmodini: evidence for introgression.
Molecular ecology 2001;10(5):1207-25.
2001: Anthony B Wilson; A Vincent; I Ahnesjö; Axel Meyer
Male pregnancy in seahorses and pipefishes (family Syngnathidae): rapid diversification of paternal brood pouch morphology inferred from a molecular phylogeny.
The Journal of heredity 2001;92(2):159-66.
2001: G Gerlach; U Schardt; Reiner Eckmann; Axel Meyer
Kin-structured subpopulations in Eurasian perch (Perca fluviatilis L.).
Heredity 2001;86(Pt 2):213-21.
2000: Trenton W J Garner; H Brinkmann; G Gerlach; Axel Meyer; Paul I Ward; M Spörri; David J Hosken
Polymorphic DNA microsatellites identified in the yellow dung fly (Scathophaga stercoraria).
Molecular ecology 2000;9(12):2207-9.
2000: Yves Van de Peer; S L Baldauf; W F Doolittle; Axel Meyer
An updated and comprehensive rRNA phylogeny of (crown) eukaryotes based on rate-calibrated evolutionary distances.
Journal of molecular evolution 2000;51(6):565-76.
2000: Anthony B Wilson; K Noack-Kunnmann; Axel Meyer
Incipient speciation in sympatric Nicaraguan crater lake cichlid fishes: sexual selection versus ecological diversification.
Proceedings. Biological sciences / The Royal Society 2000;267(1458):2133-41.
2000: Y Martin; G Gerlach; Christian Schlötterer; Axel Meyer
Molecular phylogeny of European muroid rodents based on complete cytochrome b sequences.
Molecular phylogenetics and evolution 2000;16(1):37-47.
2000: Yves Van de Peer; Abdelghani Ben Ali; Axel Meyer
Microsporidia: accumulating molecular evidence that a group of amitochondriate and suspectedly primitive eukaryotes are just curious fungi.
Gene 2000;246(1-2):1-8.
1999: Axel Meyer; Manfred Schartl
Gene and genome duplications in vertebrates: the one-to-four (-to-eight in fish) rule and the evolution of novel gene functions.
Current opinion in cell biology 1999;11(6):699-704.
1999: L Rüber; Erik Verheyen; Axel Meyer
Replicated evolution of trophic specializations in an endemic cichlid fish lineage from Lake Tanganyika.
Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America 1999;96(18):10230-5.
1999: Abdelghani Ben Ali; Jan Wuyts; Rupert De Wachter; Axel Meyer; Yves Van de Peer
Construction of a variability map for eukaryotic large subunit ribosomal RNA.
Nucleic acids research 1999;27(14):2825-31.
1999: Axel Meyer; Edward Málaga-Trillo
Vertebrate genomics: More fishy tales about Hox genes.
Current biology : CB 1999;9(6):R210-3.
1998: Axel Meyer
We are devo-evo. Workshop: Novartis Foundation Symposium No. 222: Homology, London, UK, 21-23 July 1998. Followed by an open meeting: Homology, Welcome Trust, London, UK, 24 July 1998.
Trends in genetics : TIG 1998;14(12):482-3.