TY  - JOUR
A1  - Plath, Martin
A1  - Pfenninger, Markus
A1  - Lerp, Hannes
A1  - Riesch, Rüdiger
A1  - Eschenbrenner, Christoph
A1  - Slattery, Patrick A.
A1  - Bierbach, David
A1  - Herrmann, Nina
A1  - Schulte, Matthias
A1  - Arias-Rodriguez, Lenin
A1  - Rimber Indy, Jeane
A1  - Passow, Courtney
A1  - Tobler, Michael
T1  - Genetic differentiation and selection against migrants in evolutionarily replicated extreme environments
JF  - Evolution
N2  - We investigated mechanisms of reproductive isolation in livebearing fishes (genus Poecilia) inhabiting sulfidic and nonsulfidic habitats in three replicate river drainages. Although sulfide spring fish convergently evolved divergent phenotypes, it was unclear if mechanisms of reproductive isolation also evolved convergently. Using microsatellites, we found strongly reduced gene flow between adjacent populations from different habitat types, suggesting that local adaptation to sulfidic habitats repeatedly caused the emergence of reproductive isolation. Reciprocal translocation experiments indicate strong selection against immigrants into sulfidic waters, but also variation among drainages in the strength of selection against immigrants into nonsulfidic waters. Mate choice experiments revealed the evolution of assortative mating preferences in females from nonsulfidic but not from sulfidic habitats. The inferred strength of sexual selection against immigrants (RIs) was negatively correlated with the strength of natural selection (RIm), a pattern that could be attributed to reinforcement, whereby natural selection strengthens behavioral isolation due to reduced hybrid fitness. Overall, reproductive isolation and genetic differentiation appear to be replicated and direct consequences of local adaptation to sulfide spring environments, but the relative contributions of different mechanisms of reproductive isolation vary across these evolutionarily independent replicates, highlighting both convergent and nonconvergent evolutionary trajectories of populations in each drainage.
KW  - Ecological speciation
KW  - isolation-by-adaptation
KW  - local adaptation
KW  - Poecilia mexicana
KW  - reinforcement
KW  - sexual isolation
Y1  - 2013
U6  - https://doi.org/10.1111/evo.12133
SN  - 0014-3820
VL  - 67
IS  - 9
SP  - 2647
EP  - 2661
PB  - Wiley-Blackwell
CY  - Hoboken
ER  - 
TY  - JOUR
A1  - Bálint, Miklós
A1  - Pfenninger, Markus
A1  - Grossart, Hans-Peter
A1  - Taberlet, Pierre
A1  - Vellend, Mark
A1  - Leibold, Mathew A.
A1  - Englund, Goran
A1  - Bowler, Diana
T1  - Environmental DNA time series in ecology
JF  - Trends in ecology & evolution
N2  - Ecological communities change in time and space, but long-term dynamics at the century-to-millennia scale are poorly documented due to lack of relevant data sets. Nevertheless, understanding long-term dynamics is important for explaining present-day biodiversity patterns and placing conservation goals in a historical context. Here, we use recent examples and new perspectives to highlight how environmental DNA (eDNA) is starting to provide a powerful new source of temporal data for research questions that have so far been overlooked, by helping to resolve the ecological dynamics of populations, communities, and ecosystems over hundreds to thousands of years. We give examples of hypotheses that may be addressed by temporal eDNA biodiversity data, discuss possible research directions, and outline related challenges.
Y1  - 2018
U6  - https://doi.org/10.1016/j.tree.2018.09.003
SN  - 0169-5347
SN  - 1872-8383
VL  - 33
IS  - 12
SP  - 945
EP  - 957
PB  - Elsevier
CY  - London
ER  -