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Old fossils-young species: evolutionary history of an endemic gastropod assemblage in Lake Malawi.
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- Environmental change explains cichlid adaptive radiation at Lake Malawi over the past 1.2 million years.Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America · 2016Article
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- Disjunct distributions of freshwater snails testify to a central role of the Congo system in shaping biogeographical patterns in Africa.BMC evolutionary biology · 2014Article
- A phylogeny for the pomatiopsidae (Gastropoda: Rissooidea): a resource for taxonomic, parasitological and biodiversity studies.BMC evolutionary biology · 2014Article
- Morphological stasis in an ongoing gastropod radiation from Lake Malawi.Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America · 2013Article
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Abstract
Studies on environmental changes provide important insights into modes of speciation, into the (adaptive) reoccupation of ecological niches and into species turnover. Against this background, we here examine the history of the gastropod genus Lanistes in the African Rift Lake Malawi, guided by four general evolutionary scenarios, and compare it with patterns reported from other endemic Malawian rift taxa. Based on an integrated approach using a mitochondrial DNA phylogeny and a trait-specific molecular clock in combination with insights from the fossil record and palaeoenvironmental data, we demonstrate that the accumulation of extant molecular diversity in the endemic group did not start before approximately 600,000 years ago from a single lineage. Fossils of the genus from the Malawi Rift, however, are over one million years older. We argue that severe drops in the lake level of Lake Malawi in the Pleistocene offer a potential explanation for this pattern. Our results also challenge previously established phylogenetic relationships within the genus by revealing parallel evolution and providing evidence that the endemic Lanistes species are not restricted to the lake proper but are present throughout the Malawi Rift.
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