Publications

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2023
Härer A and Rennison DJ. Assessing the validity of fecal sampling for characterizing variation in threespine stickleback’s gut microbiota​. PLoS One, in press.
Härer A*, Mauro AA*, Laurentino TG, Rosenblum EB and Rennison DJ. Gut microbiota parallelism and divergence associated with colonisation of novel habitats​. Molecular Ecology, early view.
Härer A and Rennison DJ. Gut microbiota uniqueness is associated with lake size – a proxy for diet diversity – in stickleback fish. The American Naturalist, just accepted.
Härer A and Rennison DJ. The biogeography of host-associated bacterial microbiomes: Revisiting classic biodiversity patterns​. Global Ecology and Biogeography 32(6): 931-944.
2022
Härer A and Rennison DJ. Quantifying (non)parallelism of gut microbial community change using multivariate vector analysis. Ecology and Evolution 12(12): e9674.
​Minich JJ, Härer A, Vechinski J, Frable B, Skelton Z, Kunselman E, Shane M, Perry D, Gonzalez A, McDonald D, Knight R, Michael T and Allen E. Host biology, ecology and the environment influence microbial biomass and diversity in 101 marine fish species. Nature Communications 13: 6978.
Karagic N, Härer A, Meyer A and Torres-Dowdall J: Thyroid hormone tinkering elicits integrated phenotypic changes potentially explaining rapid adaptation of color vision in cichlid fish. Evolution 76(4): 837-845.
Härer A*, Ibrahim A*, Torres-Dowdall J and Meyer A: Heterogeneity across Neotropical aquatic environments affects prokaryotic and eukaryotic biodiversity based on environmental DNA. Environmental DNA 4(2): 469-484.
​Kratochwil CF, Kautt AF, Nater A, Härer A, Liang Y, Henning F and Meyer A: An intronic transposon insertion underlies a trans-species color polymorphism in Midas cichlid fishes. Nature Communications 3: 296.
2021
Torres-Dowdall J, Karagic N, Härer A and Meyer A: Diversity in visual sensitivity across Neotropical cichlid fishes via differential expression and intraretinal variation of opsin genes. Molecular Ecology 30(8): 1880-1891.
Härer A, Rennison DJ and Bolnick DI: The genomic signature of ecological divergence along the benthic-limnetic axis in allopatric and sympatric threespine stickleback. Molecular Ecology 30(2): 451-463.
2020
Härer A, Torres-Dowdall J, Rometsch SJ, Yohannes E, Machado-Schiaffino and Meyer A: Parallel and non-parallel changes of the gut microbiota during trophic diversification in repeated young adaptive radiations of sympatric cichlid fish. Microbiome 8: 149.
Kautt A, Kratochwil CF, Nater A, Machado-Schiaffino G, Olave M, Henning F, Torres-Dowdall J, Härer A, Hulsey CD, Franchini, Pippel M, Myers EW and Meyer A: Contrasting signatures of genomic divergence during sympatric speciation. Nature 588: 106-111.
2019
Härer A, Karagic N, Meyer A and Torres-Dowdall J: Reverting ontogeny: rapid phenotypic plasticity of colour vision in cichlid fish. Royal Society Open Science 6: 190841.
2018
Härer A, Meyer A and Torres-Dowdall J: Convergent phenotypic evolution of the visual system via different molecular routes: how Neotropical cichlid fishes adapt to novel light environments. Evolution Letters 2(4): 341-354.
Karagic N, Härer A, Meyer A and Torres-Dowdall J: Heterochronic opsin expression due to early light deprivation results in drastically shifted visual sensitivity in a cichlid fish: Possible role of thyroid hormone signaling. Journal of Experimental Zoology Part B: Molecular and Developmental Evolution 330: 202-214.
2017
Härer A, Torres-Dowdall J and Meyer A: Rapid adaptation to a novel light environment: The importance of ontogeny and phenotypic plasticity in shaping the visual system of Nicaraguan Midas cichlid fish (Amphilophus citrinellus spp.). Molecular Ecology 26(20): 5582-5593.
Torres-Dowdall J, Pierotti MER, Härer A, Karagic N, Woltering J, Henning F, Elmer KR and Meyer A: Rapid and parallel adaptive evolution of the visual system of Neotropical Midas cichlid fishes. Molecular Biology and Evolution 34(10): 2469-2485.
Härer A, Torres-Dowdall J and Meyer A: The Imperiled Fish Fauna in the Nicaragua Canal Zone. Conservation Biology 31: 86-95.
2016
Huete-Pérez JA, Ortega-Hegg M, Urquhart GR, [and 21 others, including Härer A]: Critical uncertainties and gaps in the environmental and social impact assessment of the proposed transoceanic canal through Nicaragua. BioScience 66: 632-645.

SHORT communications

Verheyen E, [and 69 others, including Härer A] (2016). Oil extraction imperils Africa’s Great Lakes. Science 354: 561-562.

Media coverage

Testing the Predictability of Evolution. Evolution Letters Editors' Blog - 18 July 2018
The imperiled fish fauna in the Nicaragua Canal Zone. Shark Research: Conservation - 10 April 2017