Inke van der Sluijs

TL;DR: This work identifies the ecological and molecular basis of divergent evolution in the cichlid visual system, demonstrates associated divergence in male colouration and female preferences, and shows subsequent differentiation at neutral loci, indicating reproductive isolation.

TL;DR: Current research on different communication systems (visual, chemical, acoustic, electric) and the state of knowledge of how complex systems respond to environmental stressors using fish as a model are discussed and an urgent need for a better understanding of the evolutionary consequences of changes in communication systems on fish diversity is seen.

TL;DR: This work explores two datasets for dogs and finds support for a negative relationship between size and longevity if the authors consider variation across breeds and within breeds, however, the relationship is not negative and is slightly, but significantly, positive in the larger of the two datasets.

TL;DR: It is demonstrated that non-hybrid females of both species use male nuptial coloration for choosing mates, but with inversed preferences, and shown that variation in female mating preferences in an F2 hybrid population generates a quadratic fitness function for male coloration suggestive of disruptive selection.

TL;DR: It is suggested that their mate choice mechanism may predispose haplochromine cichlids to maintain and perhaps undergo phenotypic diversification despite hybridization, and that species differences in female preference functions may predict the potential for adaptive trait transfer between hybridizing species.