Salome Mwaiko

TL;DR: It is demonstrated that hybridization between two divergent lineages facilitated this process by providing genetic variation that subsequently became recombined and sorted into many new species, indicating rapid and extensive adaptive radiation.

TL;DR: This work uses NGS data generated from reduced representation genomic libraries of restriction‐site‐associated DNA (RAD) markers to infer phylogenetic relationships among 16 species of cichlid fishes from a single rocky island community within Lake Victoria's cICHlid adaptive radiation, and produces phylogenetic trees with unprecedented resolution for this group.

TL;DR: It is suggested that adaptive genomic differentiation at many genetic loci can arise and persist in sympatry at the very early stage of ecotype divergence, and that the genomic architecture of adaptation may facilitate this.

TL;DR: A genome‐wide sampling of SNPs identified within restriction site–associated DNA (RAD) tags is used to investigate the genomic consistency of patterns of shared ancestry and adaptive divergence among five sympatric cichlid species of two genera, Pundamilia and Mbipia, which form part of the massive adaptive radiation of cichLids in the East African Lake Victoria.

TL;DR: Investigation of haplochromine cichlid assemblages in two African Great Lakes suggests that opportunity for hybridization differentiates Lake Mweru, wherecichlids radiated, and Lake Bangweulu, where cICHlids did not radiate despite ecological opportunity in both lakes.