Publications

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2020
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 00: 1-13.
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