Publications of Henrik Kusche

Kusche, H.; Elmer, K. R.; Meyer, A.: Sympatric ecological divergence associated with a color polymorphism. BMC Biology 13, 82 (2015)

Machado-Schiaffino, G.; Kautt, A.; Kusche, H.; Meyer, A.: Parallel evolution in Ugandan crater lakes: Repeated evolution of limnetic body shapes in haplochromine cichlid fish. BMC Evolutionary Biology 15, 9 (2015)

Elmer, K. R.; Fan, S.; Kusche, H.; Spreitzer, M. L.; Kautt, A.; Franchini, P.; Meyer, A.: Parallel evolution of Nicaraguan crater lake cichlid fishes via non-parallel routes. Nature Communications 5, 5168 (2014)

Kusche, H.; Meyer, A.: One cost of being gold: Selective predation and implications for the maintenance of the Midas cichlid colour polymorphism (Perciformes: Cichlidae). Biological Journal of the Linnean Society 111 (2), pp. 350 - 358 (2014)

Kusche, H.; Recknagel, H.; Elmer, K. R.; Meyer, A.: Crater lake cichlids individually specialize along the benthic- limnetic axis. Ecology and Evolution 4 (7), pp. 1127 - 1139 (2014)

Torres-Dowdall, J.; Machado-Schiaffino, G.; Kautt, A.; Kusche, H.; Meyer, A.: Differential predation on the two colour morphs of Nicaraguan Crater lake Midas cichlid fish: Implications for the maintenance of its gold-dark polymorphism. Biological Journal of the Linnean Society 112 (1), pp. 123 - 131 (2014)

Manousaki, T.; Hull, P. M.; Kusche, H.; Machado-Schiaffino, G.; Franchini, P.; Harrod, C.; Elmer, K. R.; Meyer, A.: Parsing parallel evolution: Ecological divergence and differential gene expression in the adaptive radiations of thick-lipped Midas cichlid fishes from Nicaragua. Molecular Ecology 22 (3), pp. 650 - 669 (2013)

Recknagel, H.; Kusche, H.; Elmer, K. R.; Meyer, A.: Two new endemic species in the Midas cichlid species complex from Nicaraguan crater lakes: Amphilophus tolteca and Amphilophus viridis (Perciformes, Cichlidae). AQUA, International Journal of Ichthyology 19, pp. 207 - 224 (2013)

Kusche, H.; Lee, H. J.; Meyer, A.: Mouth asymmetry in the textbook example of scale-eating cichlid fish is not a discrete dimorphism after all. Proceedings of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences 279 (1748), pp. 4715 - 4723 (2012)

Lee, H. J.; Kusche, H.; Meyer, A.: Handed foraging behavior in scale-eating cichlid fish: Its potential role in shaping morphological asymmetry. PLoS One 7 (9), e44670 (2012)

Elmer, K. R.; Kusche, H.; Lehtonen, T. K.; Meyer, A.: Local variation and parallel evolution: Morphological and genetic diversity across a species complex of Neotropical crater lake cichlid fishes. Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society of London, Series B: Biological Sciences 365 (1547), pp. 1763 - 1782 (2010)