Publications

Evolution of gene expression across brain regions in behaviourally divergent deer mice

Andreas F. Kautt*, Jenny Chen*, Caitlin L. Lewarch, Caroline Hu, Kyle Turner, Jean-Marc Lassance, Felix Baier, Nicole L. Bedford, Andres Bendesky, Hopi E. Hoekstra

Molecular Ecology  ·  23 Jan 2024

Early stages of sympatric homoploid hybrid speciation in crater lake cichlid fishes

Melisa Olave, Alexander Nater, Andreas F. Kautt, Axel Meyer

Nature Communications  ·  06 Oct 2022

An enhancer of Agouti contributes to parallel evolution of cryptically colored beach mice

T. Brock Wooldridge, Andreas F. Kautt, Jean-Marc Lassance, Sade McFadden, Vera S. Domingues, Ricardo Mallarino, Hopi E. Hoekstra

Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences USA  ·  01 Jul 2022

Genetic assimilation and the evolution of direction of genital asymmetry in anablepid fishes

Julián Torres-Dowdall, Sina J. Rometsch, Jacobo Reyes Velasco, Gastón Aguilera, Andreas F. Kautt, Guillermo Goyenola, Ana C. Petry, Gabriel C. Deprá, Weferson J. da Graça, Axel Meyer

Proceedings of the Royal Society B  ·  11 May 2022

Molecular parallelism in the evolution of a master sex-determining role for the anti-Mullerian hormone receptor 2 gene (amhr2) in Midas cichlids

Camila L. Nacif, Claudius F. Kratochwil, Andreas F. Kautt, Alexander Nater, Gonzalo Machado-Schiaffino, Axel Meyer, Frederico Henning

Molecular Ecology  ·  11 Apr 2022

Benefits and limitations of a new genome-based PCR-RFLP genotyping assay (GB-RFLP): A SNP-based detection method for identification of species in extremely young adaptive radiations

Claudius F. Kratochwil, Andreas F. Kautt, Sina J. Rometsch, Axel Meyer

Ecology and Evolution  ·  23 Mar 2022

An intronic transposon insertion associates with a trans-species color polymorphism in Midas cichlid fishes

Claudius F. Kratochwil, Andreas F. Kautt, Alexander Nater, Andreas Härer, Yipeng Liang, Frederico Henning, Axel Meyer

Nature Communications  ·  13 Jan 2022

Genomic signatures of admixture and selection are shared among populations of Zaprionus indianus across the western hemisphere

Aaron A. Comeault, Andreas F. Kautt, Daniel R. Matute

Molecular Ecology  ·  01 Dec 2021

Towards complete and error-free genome assemblies of all vertebrate species

Arang Rhie, Shane A. McCarthy, Olivier Fedrigo, [and 114 others, including Andreas F. Kautt,] Kerstin Howe, Eugene W. Myers, Richard Durbin, Adam M. Phillippy, Erich D. Jarvis

Nature  ·  01 Apr 2021

Genome sequences reveal global dispersal routes and suggest convergent genetic adaptations in seahorse evolution

Chunyan Li, Melisa Olave, Yali Hou, Geng Qin, Ralf F. Schneider, Zexia Gao, Xiaolong Tu, Xin Wang, Furong Qi, Alexander Nater, Andreas F. Kautt, Shiming Wan, Yanhong Zhang, Yali Liu, Huixian Zhang, Bo Zhang, Hao Zhang, Meng Qu, Shuaishuai Liu, Zeyu Chen, Jia Zhong, He Zhang, Lingfeng Meng, Kai Wang, Jianping Yin, Liangmin Huang, Byrappa Venkatesh, Axel Meyer, Xuemei Lu, Qiang Lin

Nature Communications  ·  17 Feb 2021

The comparative genomic landscape of adaptive radiation in crater lake cichlid fishes

Peiwen Xiong, C. Darrin Hulsey, Carmelo Fruciano, Wai Y. Wong, Alexander Nater, Andreas F. Kautt, Oleg Simakov, Martin Pippel, Shigehiro Kuraku, Axel Meyer, Paolo Franchini

Molecular Ecology  ·  01 Feb 2021

Contrasting signatures of genomic divergence during sympatric speciation

Andreas F. Kautt*, Claudius F. Kratochwil*, Alexander Nater*, Gonzalo Machado-Schiaffino, Melisa Olave, Frederico Henning, Julián Torres-Dowdall, Andreas Härer, C. Darrin Hulsey, Paolo Franchini, Martin Pippel, Eugene W. Myers, Axel Meyer

Nature  ·  01 Dec 2020

The direction of genital asymmetry is expressed stochastically in internally fertilizing anablepid fishes

Julián Torres-Dowdall, Sina J. Rometsch, Andreas F. Kautt, Gastón Aguilera, Axel Meyer

Proceedings of the Royal Society B  ·  08 Jul 2020

Reconstructing the Evolutionary History of Chromosomal Races on Islands: A Genome-Wide Analysis of Natural House Mouse Populations

Paolo Franchini, Andreas F Kautt, Alexander Nater, Gloria Antonini, Riccardo Castiglia, Axel Meyer, Emanuela Solano

Molecular Biology and Evolution  ·  25 May 2020

Diving into divergence: Differentiation in swimming performances, physiology and gene expression between locally-adapted sympatric cichlid fishes

Francesca Raffini, Ralf F. Schneider, Paolo Franchini, Andreas F. Kautt, Axel Meyer

Molecular Ecology  ·  01 Apr 2020

Lessons from a natural experiment: Allopatric morphological divergence and sympatric diversification in the Midas cichlid species complex are largely influenced by ecology in a deterministic way

Andreas F. Kautt, Gonzalo Machado-Schiaffino, Axel Meyer

Evolution Letters  ·  01 Aug 2018

quaddRAD: a new high-multiplexing and PCR duplicate removal ddRAD protocol produces novel evolutionary insights in a nonradiating cichlid lineage

Paolo Franchini, Daniel Monné Parera, Andreas F. Kautt, Axel Meyer

Molecular Ecology  ·  01 May 2017

Incipient speciation driven by hypertrophied lips in Midas cichlid fishes?

Gonzalo Machado-Schiaffino, Andreas F. Kautt, Julian Torres-Dowdall, Lukas Baumgarten, Frederico Henning, Axel Meyer

Molecular Ecology  ·  01 Apr 2017

Incipient sympatric speciation in Midas cichlid fish from the youngest and one of the smallest crater lakes in Nicaragua due to differential use of the benthic and limnetic habitats?

Andreas F. Kautt*, Gonzalo Machado-Schiaffino*, Julian Torres-Dowdall, Axel Meyer

Ecology and Evolution  ·  01 Aug 2016

Multispecies Outcomes of Sympatric Speciation after Admixture with the Source Population in Two Radiations of Nicaraguan Crater Lake Cichlids

Andreas F. Kautt, Gonzalo Machado-Schiaffino, Axel Meyer

PLOS Genetics  ·  30 Jun 2016

Eco-morphological differentiation in Lake Magadi tilapia, an extremophile cichlid fish living in hot, alkaline and hypersaline lakes in East Africa

Geraldine D. Kavembe*, Andreas F. Kautt*, Gonzalo Machado-Schiaffino, Axel Meyer

Molecular Ecology  ·  01 Apr 2016

Parallel evolution in Ugandan crater lakes: repeated evolution of limnetic body shapes in haplochromine cichlid fish

Gonzalo Machado-Schiaffino, Andreas F. Kautt, Henrik Kusche, Axel Meyer

BMC Evolutionary Biology  ·  04 Feb 2015

Parallel evolution of Nicaraguan crater lake cichlid fishes via non-parallel routes

Kathryn R. Elmer, Shaohua Fan, Henrik Kusche, Maria Luise Spreitzer, Andreas F. Kautt, Paolo Franchini, Axel Meyer

Nature Communications  ·  27 Oct 2014

Sympatric Speciation

Axel Meyer*, Andreas F. Kautt*

Oxford University Press  ·  26 Aug 2014

Differential predation on the two colour morphs of Nicaraguan Crater lake Midas cichlid fish: implications for the maintenance of its gold-dark polymorphism

Julián Torres-Dowdall, Gonzalo Machado-Schiaffino, Andreas F. Kautt, Henrik Kusche, Axel Meyer

Biological Journal of the Linnean Society  ·  14 Apr 2014

Genomic signatures of divergent selection and speciation patterns in a ‘natural experiment’, the young parallel radiations of Nicaraguan crater lake cichlid fishes

Andreas F. Kautt, Kathryn R. Elmer, Axel Meyer

Molecular Ecology  ·  01 Oct 2012

Rapid sympatric ecological differentiation of crater lake cichlid fishes within historic times

Kathryn R. Elmer, Topi K. Lehtonen, Andreas F. Kautt, Chris Harrod, Axel Meyer

BMC Biology  ·  12 May 2010