Rapid sympatric ecological differentiation of crater lake cichlid fishes within historic times |
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| Authors: | Kathryn R Elmer Topi K Lehtonen Andreas F Kautt Chris Harrod Axel Meyer |
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| Institution: | 1.Lehrstuhl für Zoologie und Evolutionsbiologie, Department of Biology,University of Konstanz,Konstanz,Germany;2.School of Biological Sciences,Monash University,Victoria,Australia;3.Department of Evolutionary Genetics,Max Planck Institute for Limnology,Pl?n,Germany;4.School of Biological Sciences,Queen's University Belfast, Medical Biology Centre,Belfast,UK |
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| Abstract: | Background After a volcano erupts, a lake may form in the cooled crater and become an isolated aquatic ecosystem. This makes fishes in
crater lakes informative for understanding sympatric evolution and ecological diversification in barren environments. From
a geological and limnological perspective, such research offers insight about the process of crater lake ecosystem establishment
and speciation. In the present study we use genetic and coalescence approaches to infer the colonization history of Midas
cichlid fishes (Amphilophus cf. citrinellus) that inhabit a very young crater lake in Nicaragua-the ca. 1800 year-old Lake Apoyeque. This lake holds two sympatric, endemic morphs of Midas cichlid: one with large, hypertrophied
lips (~20% of the total population) and another with thin lips. Here we test the associated ecological, morphological and
genetic diversification of these two morphs and their potential to represent incipient speciation. |
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