title: Out of Tanganyika: genesis, explosive speciation, key-innovations and phylogeography of the haplochromine cichlid fishes.
abstract: BACKGROUND
  The adaptive radiations of cichlid fishes in East Africa are well known for their spectacular diversity and their astonishingly fast rates of speciation. About 80% of all 2,500 cichlid species in East Africa, and virtually all cichlid species from Lakes Victoria (approximately 500 species) and Malawi (approximately 1,000 species) are haplochromines. Here, we present the most extensive phylogenetic and phylogeographic analysis so far that includes about 100 species and is based on about 2,000 bp of the mitochondrial DNA.
  
  
  RESULTS
  Our analyses revealed that all haplochromine lineages are ultimately derived from Lake Tanganyika endemics. We find that the three most ancestral lineages of the haplochromines sensu lato are relatively species poor, albeit widely distributed in Africa, whereas a fourth newly defined lineage - the 'modern haplochromines' - contains an unparalleled diversity that makes up more than 7% of the worlds' approximately 25,000 teleost species. The modern haplochromines' ancestor, most likely a riverine generalist, repeatedly gave rise to similar ecomorphs now found in several of the species flocks. Also, the Tanganyikan Tropheini are derived from that riverine ancestor suggesting that they successfully re-colonized Lake Tanganyika and speciated in parallel to an already established cichlid adaptive radiation. In contrast to most other known examples of adaptive radiations, these generalist ancestors were derived from highly diverse and specialized endemics from Lake Tanganyika. A reconstruction of life-history traits revealed that in an ancestral lineage leading to the modern haplochromines the characteristic egg-spots on anal fins of male individuals evolved.
  
  
  CONCLUSIONS
  We conclude that Lake Tanganyika is the geographic and genetic cradle of all haplochromine lineages. In the ancestors of the replicate adaptive radiations of the 'modern haplochromines', behavioral (maternal mouthbrooding), morphological (egg-spots) and sexually selected (color polymorphism) key-innovations arose. These might be - together with the ecological opportunity that the habitat diversity of the large lakes provides - responsible for their evolutionary success and their propensity for explosive speciation.
authors.affiliation: Lehrstuhl für Zoologie und Evolutionsbiologie, Department of Biology, University of Konstanz, 78467 Konstanz, Germany. walter.salzburger@uni-konstanz.de <walter.salzburger@uni-konstanz.de>
authors.forename: Walter
authors.initials: W
authors.lastname: Salzburger
authors.forename: Tanja
authors.initials: T
authors.lastname: Mack
authors.forename: Erik
authors.initials: E
authors.lastname: Verheyen
authors.forename: Axel
authors.initials: A
authors.lastname: Meyer
mesh_terms: D000818:Animals; D005075:Biological Evolution; D019070:Cell Lineage; D023681:Cichlids / Q000235:genetics*; D004272:DNA, Mitochondrial / Q000378:metabolism; D019143:Evolution, Molecular; D014644:Genetic Variation; D005843:Geography; D016013:Likelihood Functions; D008954:Models, Biological; D008957:Models, Genetic; D010802:Phylogeny; D017422:Sequence Analysis, DNA; D013045:Species Specificity; D013636:Tanzania
chemical_list: D004272:DNA, Mitochondrial
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