Ancestral Hybridization Facilitated Species Diversification in the Lake Malawi Cichlid Fish Adaptive Radiation

• Published in: Molecular biology and evolution Vol. 37; no. 4; pp. 1100 - 1113
• Main Authors: Svardal, Hannes, Quah, Fu Xiang, Malinsky, Milan, Ngatunga, Benjamin P, Miska, Eric A, Salzburger, Walter, Genner, Martin J, Turner, George F, Durbin, Richard
• Format: Journal Article
• Language: English
• Published: United States Oxford University Press 01.04.2020
• Subjects: Adaptation, Biological - genetics; Animals; Cichlids - genetics; Discoveries; Gene Flow; Genetic Speciation; Haplotypes; Hybridization, Genetic; Lakes; Malawi; Polymorphism, Genetic; Malawi; gene flow; hybrid swarm; cichlid fish; adaptive radiation

Abstract The adaptive radiation of cichlid fishes in East African Lake Malawi encompasses over 500 species that are believed to have evolved within the last 800,000 years from a common founder population. It has been proposed that hybridization between ancestral lineages can provide the genetic raw...