Prof. Dr. Walter Salzburger

Fogg, L. G., Policarpo, M., & Salzburger, W. (2025). Evolutionary dynamics of the vertebrate Wnt gene repertoire [Posted-content]. Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory. https://doi.org/10.1101/2025.07.04.663182

Policarpo, M., Fogg, L. G., Cortesi, F., & Salzburger, W. (2025). Evolution of the Nonvisual and Visual Opsin Gene Repertoire in Ray-Finned Fishes [Journal-article]. Genome Biology and Evolution, 17(7). https://doi.org/10.1093/gbe/evaf129

Sorigue, P., Salzburger, W., & Oliveira, R. F. (2025). Nonapeptide molecular evolution during the adaptive radiation of Tanganyika cichlids [Posted-content]. Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory. https://doi.org/10.1101/2025.06.18.660417

Bucklow, C. V., Ribeiro, E. D., Ronco, F., Vranken, N., Oliver, M. K., Salzburger, W., Stiassny, M., Benson, R., & Verd, B. (2025). African Cichlid Lake Radiations Recapitulate Riverine Axial Morphologies Through Repeated Exploration of Morphospace [Posted-content]. Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory. https://doi.org/10.1101/2025.05.13.653847

Huyghe, C. E. T., Fages, A., Ronco, F., Indermaur, A., Schedel, F. D. B., Kimirei, I., Makasa, L., Tschopp, P., & Salzburger, W. (2025). Metagenomic Insights Into the Dietary Diversity of the Adaptive Radiation of Cichlid Fishes in Lake Tanganyika [Journal-article]. Molecular Ecology, 34(9). https://doi.org/10.1111/mec.17743

Policarpo, M., Salzburger, W., Maumus, F., & Gilbert, C. (2025). Multiple Horizontal Transfers of Immune Genes Between Distantly Related Teleost Fishes [Journal-article]. Molecular Biology and Evolution, 42(5). https://doi.org/10.1093/molbev/msaf107

Ramos, Elisa, Schweizer, Manuel, Wu, Meng Yue, Sahli, Christophe, Latt, Constantin, Lunak, Maurice, Crochet, Pierre-André, Salzburger, Walter, Meier, Joana, & Marques, David Alexander. (2025). The genome sequence of the Yellow-legged Gull, Larus michahellis Naumann, 1840 [Journal-article]. Wellcome Open Research, 10, 129. https://doi.org/10.12688/wellcomeopenres.23849.1

Policarpo, Maxime, Salzburger, Walter, Maumus, Florian, & Gilbert, Clément. (2024). Strong evidence for multiple horizontal transfers of immune genes between teleost fishes [Posted-content]. Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory. https://doi.org/10.1101/2024.12.17.628919

Fages, A., Luxey, M., Ronco, F., Huyghe, C. E. T., Menon, P. N. K., Indermaur, A., Salzburger, W., & Tschopp, P. (2024). Adaptive cellular evolution in the intestinal tracts of hyperdiverse African cichlid fishes [Posted-content]. Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory. https://doi.org/10.1101/2024.11.28.625862

Policarpo, Maxime, Baldwin, Maude W., Casane, Didier, & Salzburger, Walter. (2024). Diversity and evolution of the vertebrate chemoreceptor gene repertoire. Nature Communications, 15(1). https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-024-45500-y

Stelbrink, Björn, von Rintelen, Thomas, Marwoto, Ristiyanti M., & Salzburger, Walter. (2024). Mitogenomes do not substantially improve phylogenetic resolution in a young non-model adaptive radiation of freshwater gastropods. BMC Ecology and Evolution, 24(1). https://doi.org/10.1186/s12862-024-02235-0

Fogg, L. G., Isari, S., Barnes, J. E., Patel, J. S., Marshall, J., Salzburger, W., Cortesi, F., & de Busserolles, F. (2024). Deep-sea fish reveal alternative pathway for vertebrate visual development [Posted-content]. Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory. https://doi.org/10.1101/2024.10.10.617579

Maxime Policarpo, Lily G Fogg, Fabio Cortesi, & Walter Salzburger. (2024). Evolution of the non-visual and visual opsin gene repertoire in ray-finned fishes. https://doi.org/10.1101/2024.10.03.616438

Duque-Correa, Maria J., Clements, Kendall D., Meloro, Carlo, Ronco, Fabrizia, Boila, Anna, Indermaur, Adrian, Salzburger, Walter, & Clauss, Marcus. (2024). Diet and habitat as determinants of intestine length in fishes. Reviews in Fish Biology and Fisheries, 34(3), 1017–1034. https://doi.org/10.1007/s11160-024-09853-3

Mamos, Tomasz, Grabowski, Michał, Sworobowicz, Lidia, Salzburger, Walter, Trajanovski, Sasho, Copilaş-Ciocianu, Denis, Mucciolo, Serena, & Wysocka, Anna. (2024). Distribution, diversity and diversification from DNA barcoding perspective: The case of Gammarus radiation in the ancient Lake Ohrid. Journal of Biogeography, 51(7), 1259–1275. https://doi.org/10.1111/jbi.14822

Nichols, Annika L. A., Shafer, Maxwell E. R., Indermaur, Adrian, Rüegg, Attila, Gonzalez-Dominguez, Rita, Malinsky, Milan, Sommer-Trembo, Carolin, Fritschi, Laura, Salzburger, Walter, & Schier, Alexander F. (2024). Widespread temporal niche partitioning in an adaptive radiation of cichlid fishes. In bioRxiv. Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory. https://doi.org/10.1101/2024.05.29.596472

Schedel, Frederic D.B., Huyghe, Charlotte E.T., Boileau, Nicolas, Indermaur, Adrian, Ronco, Fabrizia, Fritschi, Laura M., Phiri, Mabvuto, Makasa, Lawrence, Katongo, Cyprian, & Salzburger, Walter. (2024). Surrounded by Great Lakes: Assessing the ichthyological diversity of Northern Zambian drainage systems. Journal of Great Lakes Research, 50(3). https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jglr.2023.102245

Omelchenko, D., Bitja-Nyom, A. R., Matschiner, M., Malinsky, M., Indermaur, A., Salzburger, W., Bartoš, O., & Musilova, Z. (2024). Hemoglobin gene repertoire in teleost and cichlid fishes shaped by gene duplications and genome rearrangements [Posted-content]. Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory. https://doi.org/10.1101/2024.03.26.586788

Costa, Vincenzo A., Ronco, Fabrizia, Mifsud, Jonathon C.O., Harvey, Erin, Salzburger, Walter, & Holmes, Edward C. (2024). Host adaptive radiation is associated with rapid virus diversification and cross-species transmission in African cichlid fishes. Current Biology, 34(6), 1247–1257. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.cub.2024.02.008

Haefeli, Anja, Schedel, Frederic D.B., Ronco, Fabrizia, Indermaur, Adrian, & Salzburger, Walter. (2024). Revision of the cichlid fish genus Gnathochromis (Teleostei: Cichlidae) from Lake Tanganyika with the description of a new genus Jabarichromis gen. nov. Zootaxa, 5410(3), 434–450. https://doi.org/10.11646/zootaxa.5410.3.10

Shafer, M. E. R., Nichols, A. L. A., Schier, A. F., & Salzburger, W. (2023). Frequent transitions from night-to-day activity after mass extinctions [Posted-content]. bioRxiv. https://doi.org/10.1101/2023.10.27.564421

Muschick, Moritz, Jemmi, Eliane, Lengacher, Nicholas, Hänsch, Stephanie, Wales, Nathan, Kishe, Mary A., Mwaiko, Salome, Dieleman, Jorunn, Lever, Mark Alexander, Salzburger, Walter, Verschuren, Dirk, & Seehausen, Ole. (2023). Ancient DNA is preserved in fish fossils from tropical lake sediments [Journal-article]. Molecular Ecology, 32(22), 5913–5931. https://doi.org/10.1111/mec.17159

Ricci, Virginie, Ronco, Fabrizia, Boileau, Nicolas, & Salzburger, Walter. (2023). Visual opsin gene expression evolution in the adaptive radiation of cichlid fishes of Lake Tanganyika [Journal-article]. Science Advances, 9(36). https://doi.org/10.1126/sciadv.adg6568

Bista, Iliana, Wood, Jonathan M. D., Desvignes, Thomas, McCarthy, Shane A., Matschiner, Michael, Ning, Zemin, Tracey, Alan, Torrance, James, Sims, Ying, Chow, William, Smith, Michelle, Oliver, Karen, Haggerty, Leanne, Salzburger, Walter, Postlethwait, John H., Howe, Kerstin, Clark, Melody S., William Detrich, H., Christina Cheng, C.-H., et al. (2023). Genomics of cold adaptations in the Antarctic notothenioid fish radiation [Journal-article]. Nature Communications, 14(1). https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-023-38567-6

Policarpo, M., Baldwin, M., Casane, D., & Salzburger, W. (2023, May 15). Diversity and evolution of the vertebrate chemoreceptor gene repertoire [Posted-content]. Research Square Platform LLC. https://doi.org/10.21203/rs.3.rs-2922188/v1

Barth, Julia M. I., Handley, Scott A., Kintzl, Daniel, Leonard, Guy, Malinsky, Milan, Matschiner, Michael, Meyer, Britta S., Salzburger, Walter, Stefka, Jan, & Trucchi, Emiliano. (2023). The history and organization of the Workshop on Population and Speciation Genomics [Journal-article]. Evolution: Education and Outreach, 16(2). https://doi.org/10.1186/s12052-023-00182-w

Lichilín, Nicolás, Salzburger, Walter, & Böhne, Astrid. (2023). No evidence for sex chromosomes in natural populations of the cichlid fish Astatotilapia burtoni [Journal-article]. G3-Genes Genomes Genetics, 13(3). https://doi.org/10.1093/g3journal/jkad011

Astudillo-Clavijo, Viviana, Stiassny, Melanie L. J., Ilves, Katriina L., Musilova, Zuzana, Salzburger, Walter, & López-Fernández, Hernán. (2022). Exon-based phylogenomics and the relationships of African cichlid fishes: tackling the challenges of reconstructing phylogenies with repeated rapid radiations. Systematic Biology, 1–16. https://doi.org/10.1093/sysbio/syac051

Da Silva, Marcos A., Ottoni, Felipe P., Mattos, Jose L. O., Indermaur, Adrian, Katz, Axel M., & Salzburger, Walter. (2022). Species diversity and phylogeography of the Australoheros autrani group (Teleostei, Cichlidae) in eastern Brazil. Ichthyological Research, 1–8. https://doi.org/10.1007/s10228-022-00888-9

Ricci, Virginie, Ronco, Fabrizia, Musilova, Zuzana, & Salzburger, Walter. (2022). Molecular evolution and depth-related adaptations of rhodopsin in the adaptive radiation of cichlid fishes in Lake Tanganyika. Molecular Ecology, 31(10), 2882–2897. https://doi.org/10.1111/mec.16429

Schedel, Frederic D. B., Musilova, Zuzana, Indermaur, Adrian, Bitja-Nyom, Arnold Roger, Salzburger, Walter, & Schliewen, Ulrich K. (2022). Towards the phylogenetic placement of the enigmatic African genus Prolabeops Schultz, 1941. Journal of Fish Biology, 101(5), 1333–1342. https://doi.org/10.1111/jfb.15205

Sommer-Trembo, Carolin, Oliver, Chantal, Wolf, Laura, Garcia, Cody, & Salzburger, Walter. (2022). Does the presence of conspecifics facilitate exploratory behaviour in a cichlid fish (Etroplus suratensis)? Behaviour, 159(10), 899–914. https://doi.org/10.1163/1568539x-bja10156

Viertler, Alexandra, Salzburger, Walter, & Ronco, Fabrizia. (2021). Comparative scale morphology in the adaptive radiation of cichlid fishes (Perciformes: Cichlidae) from Lake Tanganyika. Biological Journal of the Linnean Society, 134(3), 541–556. https://doi.org/10.1093/biolinnean/blab099

Weber, A. A.-T., Rajkov, J., Smailus, K., Egger, B., & Salzburger, W. (2021, January 13). Diversification dynamics and (non-)parallel evolution along an ecological gradient in African cichlid fishes [Posted-content]. Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory. https://doi.org/10.1101/2021.01.12.426414

El Taher, Athimed, Böhne, Astrid, Boileau, Nicolas, Ronco, Fabrizia, Indermaur, Adrian, Widmer, Lukas, & Salzburger, Walter. (2021). Gene expression dynamics during rapid organismal diversification in African cichlid fishes. Nature Ecology and Evolution, 5(2), 243–250. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41559-020-01354-3

El Taher, Athimed, Ronco, Fabrizia, Matschiner, Michael, Salzburger, Walter, & Böhne, Astrid. (2021). Dynamics of sex chromosome evolution in a rapid radiation of cichlid fishes. Science Advances, 7(36), eabe8215. https://doi.org/10.1126/sciadv.abe8215

Musilova, Zuzana, Salzburger, Walter, & Cortesi, Fabio. (2021). The Visual Opsin Gene Repertoires of Teleost Fishes: Evolution, Ecology, and Function. Annual Review of Cell and Developmental Biology, 37, 441–468. https://doi.org/10.1146/annurev-cellbio-120219-024915

Rajkov, Jelena, El Taher, Athimed, Böhne, Astrid, Salzburger, Walter, & Egger, Bernd. (2021). Gene expression remodelling and immune response during adaptive divergence in an African cichlid fish. Molecular Ecology, 30(1), 274–296. https://doi.org/10.1111/mec.15709

Ronco, Fabrizia, Matschiner, Michael, Böhne, Astrid, Boila, Anna, Büscher, Heinz H., El Taher, Athimed, Indermaur, Adrian, Malinsky, Milan, Ricci, Virginie, Kahmen, Ansgar, Jentoft, Sissel, & Salzburger, Walter. (2021). Drivers and dynamics of a massive adaptive radiation in cichlid fishes. Nature, 589(7840), 76–81. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41586-020-2930-4

Ronco, Fabrizia, & Salzburger, Walter. (2021). Tracing evolutionary decoupling of oral and pharyngeal jaws in cichlid fishes. Evolution Letters, 5(6), 625–635. https://doi.org/10.1002/evl3.257

Ronco, Fabrizia, & Salzburger, Walter. (2021). The non-gradual nature of adaptive radiation. Zoology, 146, 125925. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.zool.2021.125925

Svardal, Hannes, Salzburger, Walter, & Malinsky, Milan. (2021). Genetic Variation and Hybridization in Evolutionary Radiations of Cichlid Fishes. Annual Review of Animal Biosciences, 9, 55–79. https://doi.org/10.1146/annurev-animal-061220-023129

Weber, Alexandra A.-T., Rajkov, Jelena, Smailus, Kolja, Egger, Bernd, & Salzburger, Walter. (2021). Speciation dynamics and extent of parallel evolution along a lake-stream environmental contrast in African cichlid fishes. Science Advances, 7(45), eabg5391. https://doi.org/10.1126/sciadv.abg5391

Taher, A. E., Ronco, F., Matschiner, M., Salzburger, W., & Böhne, A. (2020, October 23). Dynamics of sex chromosome evolution in a rapid radiation of cichlid fishes [Posted-content]. Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory. https://doi.org/10.1101/2020.10.23.335596

Albrecht, C., Salzburger, W., Umba Tolo, C., & Stelbrink, B. (2020). Speciation in Ancient Lakes 8 – Celebrating 25 years and moving towards the future. Journal of Great Lakes Research, 46(5), 1063–1066. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jglr.2020.08.009

Russell, James M., Barker, Philip, Cohen, Andrew, Ivory, Sarah, Kimirei, Ishmael, Lane, Christine, Leng, Melanie, Maganza, Neema, McGlue, Michael, Msaky, Emma, Noren, Anders, Boush, Lisa Park, Salzburger, Walter, Scholz, Christopher, Tiedemann, Ralph, Nuru, Shaidu, Albrecht, Christian, Ali, Rahma, Arrowsmith, Ramon, et al. (2020). ICDP workshop on the Lake Tanganyika Scientific Drilling Project: A late Miocene-present record of climate, rifting, and ecosystem evolution from the world’s oldest tropical lake. Scientific Drilling, 27, 53–60. https://doi.org/10.5194/sd-27-53-2020

Bose, Aneesh P. H., Windorfer, Johannes, Böhm, Alex, Ronco, Fabrizia, Indermaur, Adrian, Salzburger, Walter, & Jordan, Alex. (2020). Structural manipulations of a shelter resource reveal underlying preference functions in a shell-dwelling cichlid fish. Proceedings of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences, 287(1927), 20200127. https://doi.org/10.1098/rspb.2020.0127

Doble, C. J., Hipperson, H., Salzburger, W., Horsburgh, G. J., Mwita, C., Murrell, D. J., & Day, J. J. (2020). Testing the performance of environmental DNA metabarcoding for surveying highly diverse tropical fish communities: A case study from Lake Tanganyika. Environmental DNA, 2(1), 24–41. https://doi.org/10.1002/edn3.43

Matschiner, Michael, Böhne, Astrid, Ronco, Fabrizia, & Salzburger, Walter. (2020). The genomic timeline of cichlid fish diversification across continents. Nature communications, 11(1), 5895. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-020-17827-9

Ronco, Fabrizia, Büscher, Heinz H., Indermaur, Adrian, & Salzburger, Walter. (2020). The taxonomic diversity of the cichlid fish fauna of ancient Lake Tanganyika, East Africa. Journal of Great Lakes research, 46(5), 1067–1078. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jglr.2019.05.009

Svardal, Hannes, Quah, Fu Xiang, Malinsky, Milan, Ngatunga, Benjamin P., Miska, Eric A., Salzburger, Walter, Genner, Martin J., Turner, George F., & Durbin, Richard. (2020). Ancestral Hybridization Facilitated Species Diversification in the Lake Malawi Cichlid Fish Adaptive Radiation. Molecular biology and evolution, 37(4), 1100–1113. https://doi.org/10.1093/molbev/msz294

Widmer, Lukas, Indermaur, Adrian, Egger, Bernd, & Salzburger, Walter. (2020). Where Am I? Niche constraints due to morphological specialization in two Tanganyikan cichlid fish species. Ecology and evolution, 10(17), 9410–9418. https://doi.org/10.1002/ece3.6629

Perazzo, G. X., Corrêa, F., Salzburger, W., & Gava, A. (2019). Morphological differences between an artificial lentic and adjacent lotic environments in a characid species. Reviews in Fish Biology and Fisheries, 29(4), 935–949. https://doi.org/10.1007/s11160-019-09582-y

Svardal, H., Quah, F. X., Malinsky, M., Ngatunga, B. P., Miska, E. A., Salzburger, W., Genner, M. J., Turner, G. F., & Durbin, R. (2019, August 18). Ancestral hybridisation facilitated species diversification in the Lake Malawi cichlid fish adaptive radiation [Posted-content]. Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory. https://doi.org/10.1101/738633

Kovac, R., Boileau, N., Muschick, M., & Salzburger, W. (2019). The diverse prey spectrum of the Tanganyikan scale-eater Perissodus microlepis (Boulenger, 1898). Hydrobiologia, 832(1), 85–92. https://doi.org/10.1007/s10750-018-3714-9

Perazzo, Giselle Xavier, Corrêa, Fabiano, Calviño, Pablo, Alonso, Felipe, Salzburger, Walter, & Gava, Adriana. (2019). Shape and size variation of Jenynsia lineata (Jenyns 1842) (Cyprinodontiformes: Anablepidae) from different coastal environments. Hydrobiologia, 828(1), 21–39. https://doi.org/10.1007/s10750-018-3794-6

Baldo, Laura, Riera, Joan Lluís, Salzburger, Walter, & Barluenga, Marta. (2019). Phylogeography and Ecological Niche Shape the Cichlid Fish Gut Microbiota in Central American and African Lakes. Frontiers in Microbiology, 10, 2372. https://doi.org/10.3389/fmicb.2019.02372

Böhne, Astrid, Weber, Alexandra Anh-Thu, Rajkov, Jelena, Rechsteiner, Michael, Riss, Andrin, Egger, Bernd, & Salzburger, Walter. (2019). Repeated Evolution Versus Common Ancestry: Sex Chromosome Evolution in the Haplochromine Cichlid Pseudocrenilabrus philander. Genome Biology and Evolution, 11(2), 439–458. https://doi.org/10.1093/gbe/evz003

Ceballos, Santiago G., Roesti, Marius, Matschiner, Michael, Fernández, Daniel A., Damerau, Malte, Hanel, Reinhold, & Salzburger, Walter. (2019). Phylogenomics of an extra-Antarctic notothenioid radiation reveals a previously unrecognized lineage and diffuse species boundaries. BMC Evolutionary Biology, 19(1), 13. https://doi.org/10.1186/s12862-019-1345-z

El Taher, Athimed, Lichilín, Nicolás, Salzburger, Walter, & Böhne, Astrid. (2019). Time matters! Developmental shift in gene expression between the head and the trunk region of the cichlid fish Astatotilapia burtoni. BMC Genomics, 20(1), 39. https://doi.org/10.1186/s12864-018-5321-6

Matschiner, Michael, & Salzburger, Walter. (2019). Evolution: Genomic Signatures of Mimicry and Mimicry of Genomic Signatures. Current Biology : CB, 29(10), R363–R365. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.cub.2019.04.015

Meyer, Britta S., Hablützel, Pascal I., Roose, Anna K., Hofmann, Melinda J., Salzburger, Walter, & Raeymaekers, Joost A. M. (2019). An exploration of the links between parasites, trophic ecology, morphology, and immunogenetics in the Lake Tanganyika cichlid radiation. Hydrobiologia, 832(1), 215–233. https://doi.org/10.1007/s10750-018-3798-2

Musilova, Zuzana, Cortesi, Fabio, Matschiner, Michael, Davies, Wayne I. L., Patel, Jagdish Suresh, Stieb, Sara M., de Busserolles, Fanny, Malmstrøm, Martin, Tørresen, Ole K., Brown, Celeste J., Mountford, Jessica K., Hanel, Reinhold, Stenkamp, Deborah L., Jakobsen, Kjetill S., Carleton, Karen L., Jentoft, Sissel, Marshall, Justin, & Salzburger, Walter. (2019). Vision using multiple distinct rod opsins in deep-sea fishes. Science (New York, N.Y.), 364(6440), 588–592. https://doi.org/10.1126/science.aav4632

Musilova, Zuzana, Indermaur, Adrian, Bitja-Nyom, Arnold Roger, Omelchenko, Dmytro, Kłodawska, Monika, Albergati, Lia, Remišová, Kateřina, & Salzburger, Walter. (2019). Evolution of the visual sensory system in cichlid fishes from crater lake Barombi Mbo in Cameroon. Molecular Ecology, 28(23), 5010–5031. https://doi.org/10.1111/mec.15217

Ronco, Fabrizia, Roesti, Marius, & Salzburger, Walter. (2019). A functional trade-off between trophic adaptation and parental care predicts sexual dimorphism in cichlid fish. Proceedings. Biological Sciences, 286(1909), 20191050. https://doi.org/10.1098/rspb.2019.1050

Schnitzler, Annik, Granado, José, Putelat, Olivier, Arbogast, Rose-Marie, Drucker, Dorothée, Eberhard, Anna, Schmutz, Anja, Klaefiger , Yuri, Lang, Gérard, Salzburger, Walter, Schibler, Jörg, Schlumbaum, Angela, & Bocherens, Hervé. (2019). Genetic diversity, genetic structure and diet of ancient and contemporary red deer (Cervus elaphus L.) from north-eastern France. PloS One, 13(1), e0189278. https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0189278

Widmer, Lukas, Heule, Elia, Colombo, Marco, Rueegg, Attila, Indermaur, Adrian, Ronco, Fabrizia, & Salzburger, Walter. (2019). Point-Combination Transect (PCT): Incorporation of small underwater cameras to study fish communities. Methods in Ecology and Evolution, 10(6), 891–901. https://doi.org/10.1111/2041-210x.13163

Baalsrud, Helle Tessand, Torresen, Ole Kristian, Solbakken, Monica Hongro, Salzburger, Walter, Hanel, Reinhold, Jakobsen, Kjetill S., & Jentoft, Sissel. (2018). De Novo Gene Evolution of Antifreeze Glycoproteins in Codfishes Revealed by Whole Genome Sequence Data. Molecular Biology and Evolution, 35(3), 593–606. https://doi.org/10.1093/molbev/msx311

Baalsrud, Helle Tessand, Tørresen, Ole Kristian, Solbakken, Monica Hongrø, Salzburger, Walter, Hanel, Reinhold, Jakobsen, Kjetill S., & Jentoft, Sissel. (2018). De novo gene evolution of antifreeze glycoproteins in codfishes revealed by whole genome sequence data. Molecular Biology and Evolution, 35(3), 593–606. https://doi.org/10.6084/m9.figshare.5509465

Faria, Rui, Triant, Deborah, Perdomo-Sabogal, Alvaro, Overduin, Bert, Bleidorn, Christoph, Santana, Clara Isabel Bermudez, Langenberger, David, Dall’Olio, Giovanni Marco, Indrischek, Henrike, Aerts, Jan, Engelhardt, Jan, Engelken, Johannes, Liebal, Katja, Fasold, Mario, Robb, Sofia, Grath, Sonja, Kolora, Sree Rohit Raj, Carvalho, Tiago, Salzburger, Walter, et al. (2018). Introducing evolutionary biologists to the analysis of big data: Guidelines to organize extended bioinformatics training courses. Evolution: Education and Outreach, 11(1). https://doi.org/10.1186/s12052-018-0080-z

Indermaur, Adrian, Theis, Anya, Egger, Bernd, & Salzburger, Walter. (2018). Mouth dimorphism in scale-eating cichlid fish from Lake Tanganyika advances individual fitness. Evolution; International Journal of Organic Evolution, 72(9), 1962–1969. https://doi.org/10.1111/evo.13552

Keller, Isabel S., Bayer, Till, Salzburger, Walter, & Roth, Olivia. (2018). Effects of parental care on resource allocation into immune defense and buccal microbiota in mouthbrooding cichlid fishes. Evolution; International Journal of Organic Evolution, 72(5), 1109–1123. https://doi.org/10.1111/evo.13452

Malmstrøm, Martin, Britz, Ralf, Matschiner, Michael, Tørresen, Ole K., Hadiaty, Renny Kurnia, Yaakob, Norsham, Tan, Heok Hui, Jakobsen, Kjetill Sigurd, Salzburger, Walter, & Rüber, Lukas. (2018). The Most Developmentally Truncated Fishes Show Extensive Hox Gene Loss and Miniaturized Genomes. Genome Biology and Evolution, 10(4), 1088–1103. https://doi.org/10.1093/gbe/evy058

Muschick, Moritz, & Salzburger, Walter. (2018). Evolution: An Archipelago Replete with Replicates. Current Biology : CB, 28(9), R565–R567. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.cub.2018.03.032

Pauquet, Gaëlle, Salzburger, Walter, & Egger, Bernd. (2018). The puzzling phylogeography of the haplochromine cichlid fish Astatotilapia burtoni. Ecology and Evolution, 8(11), 5637–5648. https://doi.org/10.1002/ece3.4092

Rajkov, Jelena, Weber, Alexandra Anh-Thu, Salzburger, Walter, & Egger, Bernd. (2018). Immigrant and extrinsic hybrid inviability contribute to reproductive isolation between lake and river cichlid ecotypes. Evolution: international journal of organic evolution, 72(11), 2553–2564. https://doi.org/10.1111/evo.13612

Rajkov, Jelena, Weber, Alexandra Anh-Thu, Salzburger, Walter, & Egger, Bernd. (2018). Adaptive phenotypic plasticity contributes to divergence between lake and river populations of an East African cichlid fish. Ecology and Evolution, 8(15), 7323–7333. https://doi.org/10.1002/ece3.4241

Salzburger, Walter. (2018). Understanding explosive diversification through cichlid fish genomics. Nature Reviews. Genetics, 19(11), 705–717. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41576-018-0043-9

Schnitzler, Annik, Granado, José, Putelat, Olivier, Arbogast, Rose-Marie, Drucker, Dorothée, Eberhard, Anna, Schmutz, Anja, Klaefiger, Yuri, Lang, Gérard, Salzburger, Walter, Schibler, Joerg, Schlumbaum, Angela, & Bocherens, Hervé. (2018). Correction: Genetic diversity, genetic structure and diet of ancient and contemporary red deer (Cervus elaphus L.) from north-eastern France. PloS One, 13(6), e0199945. https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0199945

Stange, Madlen, Aguirre-Fernández, Gabriel, Salzburger, Walter, & Sánchez-Villagra, Marcelo R. (2018). Study of morphological variation of northern Neotropical Ariidae reveals conservatism despite macrohabitat transitions. BMC Evolutionary Biology, 18(1), 38. https://doi.org/10.1186/s12862-018-1152-y

Stange, Madlen, Sánchez-Villagra, Marcelo R., Salzburger, Walter, & Matschiner, Michael. (2018). Bayesian Divergence-Time Estimation with Genome-Wide Single-Nucleotide Polymorphism Data of Sea Catfishes (Ariidae) Supports Miocene Closure of the Panamanian Isthmus. Systematic Biology, 67(4), 681–699. https://doi.org/10.1093/sysbio/syy006

Malmstrøm, M., Britz, R., Matschiner, M., Tørresen, O. K., Hadiaty, R. K., Yaakob, N., Tan, H. H., Jakobsen, K. S., Salzburger, W., & Rüber, L. (2017, July 6). The most developmentally truncated fishes show extensive <i>Hox</i> gene loss and miniaturized genomes [Posted-content]. Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory. https://doi.org/10.1101/160168

Cohen, Andrew S., & Salzburger, Walter. (2017). Scientific drilling at Lake Tanganyika, Africa: A transformative record for understanding evolution in isolation and the biological history of the African continent, University of Basel, 6-8 June 2016. Scientific Drilling, 22, 43–48. https://doi.org/10.5194/sd-22-43-2017

Baalsrud, Helle Tessand, Voje, Kjetil Lysne, Tørresen, Ole Kristian, Solbakken, Monica Hongrø, Matschiner, Michael, Malmstrøm, Martin, Hanel, Reinhold, Salzburger, Walter, Jakobsen, Kjetill S., & Jentoft, Sissel. (2017). Evolution of Hemoglobin Genes in Codfishes Influenced by Ocean Depth. Scientific Reports, 7(1), 7956. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41598-017-08286-2

Bachmann, Judith C., Cortesi, Fabio, Hall, Matthew D., Marshall, N. Justin, Salzburger, Walter, & Gante, Hugo F. (2017). Real-time social selection maintains honesty of a dynamic visual signal in cooperative fish. Evolution Letters, 1(5), 269–278. https://doi.org/10.1002/evl3.24

Baldo, Laura, Pretus, Joan Lluís, Riera, Joan Lluís, Musilova, Zuzana, Bitja Nyom, Arnold Roger, & Salzburger, Walter. (2017). Convergence of gut microbiotas in the adaptive radiations of African cichlid fishes. ISME Journal, 11(9), 1975–1987. https://doi.org/10.1038/ismej.2017.62

Egger, Bernd, Roesti, Marius, Böhne, Astrid, Roth, Olivia, & Salzburger, Walter. (2017). Demography and genome divergence of lake and stream populations of an East African cichlid fish. Molecular Ecology, 26(19), 5016–5030. https://doi.org/10.1111/mec.14248

Juric, I., Salzburger, W., & Balmer, O. (2017). Spread and global population structure of the diamondback moth Plutella xylostella (Lepidoptera: Plutellidae) and its larval parasitoids Diadegma semiclausum and Diadegma fenestrale (Hymenoptera: Ichneumonidae) based on mtDNA. Bulletin of Entomological Research, 107(2), 155–164. https://doi.org/10.1017/s0007485316000766

Keller, Isabel S., Salzburger, Walter, & Roth, Olivia. (2017). Parental investment matters for maternal and offspring immune defense in the mouthbrooding cichlid Astatotilapia burtoni. BMC Evolutionary Biology, 17(1), 264. https://doi.org/10.1186/s12862-017-1109-6

Lauber, Chris, Seitz, Stefan, Mattei, Simone, Suh, Alexander, Beck, Jürgen, Herstein, Jennifer, Börold, Jacob, Salzburger, Walter, Kaderali, Lars, Briggs, John A. G., & Bartenschlager, Ralf. (2017). Deciphering the Origin and Evolution of Hepatitis B Viruses by Means of a Family of Non-enveloped Fish Viruses. Cell Host & Microbe, 22(3), 387–399. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.chom.2017.07.019

Spinks, Rachel K., Muschick, Moritz, Salzburger, Walter, & Gante, Hugo F. (2017). Singing above the chorus: cooperative Princess cichlid fish (Neolamprologus pulcher) has high pitch. Hydrobiologia, 791(1), 115–125. https://doi.org/10.1007/s10750-016-2921-5

Stieb, Sara M., Cortesi, Fabio, Sueess, Lorenz, Carleton, Karen L., Salzburger, Walter, & Marshall, N. J. (2017). Why UV vision and red vision are important for damselfish (Pomacentridae): structural and expression variation in opsin genes. Molecular Ecology, 26(5), 1323–1342. https://doi.org/10.1111/mec.13968

Theis, Anya, Roth, Olivia, Cortesi, Fabio, Ronco, Fabrizia, Salzburger, Walter, & Egger, Bernd. (2017). Variation of anal fin egg-spots along an environmental gradient in a haplochromine cichlid fish. Evolution: International Journal of Organic Evolution, 71(3), 766–777. https://doi.org/10.1111/evo.13166

Colombo, Marco, Indermaur, Adrian, Meyer, Britta S., & Salzburger, Walter. (2016). Habitat use and its implications to functional morphology: Niche partitioning and the evolution of locomotory morphology in Lake Tanganyikan cichlids (Perciformes: Cichlidae). Biological Journal of the Linnean Society, 118(3), 536–550. https://doi.org/10.1111/bij.12754

Bachmann, Judith C., Cortesi, Fabio, Hall, Matthew D., Marshall, N. Justin, Salzburger, Walter, & Gante, Hugo F. (2016). Social selection maintains honesty of a dynamic visual signal in cichlid fish [Posted-content]. In bioRxiv. Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory. https://doi.org/10.1101/039552

Spinks, R. K., Muschick, M., Salzburger, W., & Gante, H. F. (2016, February 9). Singing above the chorus: cooperative Princess cichlid fish (<i>Neolamprologus pulcher</i>) has high pitch [Posted-content]. Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory. https://doi.org/10.1101/039313

Böhne, Astrid, Wilson, Catherine A., Postlethwait, John H., & Salzburger, Walter. (2016). Variations on a theme: Genomics of sex determination in the cichlid fish Astatotilapia burtoni. BMC Genomics, 17(1), 883. https://doi.org/10.1186/s12864-016-3178-0

Cortesi, Fabio, Musilová, Zuzana, Stieb, Sara M., Hart, Nathan S., Siebeck, Ulrike E., Cheney, Karen L., Salzburger, Walter, & Marshall, N. Justin. (2016). From crypsis to mimicry: changes in colour and the configuration of the visual system during ontogenetic habitat transitions in a coral reef fish. The Journal of Experimental Biology, 219(16), 2545–2558. https://doi.org/10.1242/jeb.139501

Gante, Hugo F., Matschiner, Michael, Malmstrøm, Martin, Jakobsen, Kjetill S., Jentoft, Sissel, & Salzburger, Walter. (2016). Genomics of speciation and introgression in Princess cichlid fishes from Lake Tanganyika. Molecular Ecology, 25(24), 6143–6161. https://doi.org/10.1111/mec.13767

Göppert, Carolin, Harris, Rayna M., Theis, Anya, Boila, Anna, Hohl, Simon, Rüegg, Attila, Hofmann, Hans A., Salzburger, Walter, & Böhne, Astrid. (2016). Inhibition of Aromatase Induces Partial Sex Change in a Cichlid Fish: Distinct Functions for Sex Steroids in Brains and Gonads. Sexual development : genetics, molecular biology, evolution, endocrinology, embryology, and pathology of sex determination and differentiation, 10(2), 97–110. https://doi.org/10.1159/000445463