Elmer Lab

New paper out Franchini, P., C. Fruciano, M.-L. Spreitzer, J. C. Jones, K. R. Elmer, F. Henning, and A. Meyer, 2014 Genomic architecture of ecologically divergent body shape in a pair of sympatric crater lake cichlid fishes . Mol Ecol 23: 1828-1845.   (years of raising those fishies comes to fruition!) and the topic of the issue's Perspective by Sean Rogers & Heather Jamniczky

Kathryn Elmer (PI), Nick Kamenos and Zhenhong Li (Geography, co-Is) have been awarded a well-funded Lord Kelvin Adam Smith studentship (2014/2015 for 4 yrs) for their project "Trees through time: Biodiversity on the landscape".

Kusche, H., H. Recknagel, K. R. Elmer, and A. Meyer, 2014 Crater lake cichlids individually specialize along the benthic-limnetic axis . Ecology and Evolution in press:

Congratulations to Hans Recknagel on being awarded a Hereditary Fieldwork grant by the Genetics Society! This will be a great help with his PhD research this summer in the Alps (tough, but someone has to do it ...)

Big congrats to James Burgon , awarded "best presentation of the day" at the 15th annual Molluscan Forum, run by the Malacological Society of London.  He presented work from his Masters on revising the gastropod genus Paramelania, which is endemic to Lake Tanganyika.  (umm, next time it'll be the salamanders ... )

Two new Midas cichlid species for the Nicaraguan crater lakes: Recknagel H, Kusche H, Elmer KR, Meyer A (2013) Description of two new species in the Midas cichlid species complex: Amphilophus tolteca and Amphilophus viridis (Perciformes: Cichlidae). Aqua, International Journal of Ichthyology , 19 , 207–224.

Congratulations to Hans! Hans Recknagel, Kathryn R. Elmer, Brice P. Noonan, Achille P. Raselimanana, Axel Meyer, Miguel Vences. 2013. Multi-gene phylogeny of Madagascar’s plated lizards, Zonosaurus and Tracheloptychus (Squamata: Gerrhosauridae) . available on-line early at the journal Molecular Phylogenetics and Evolution