Marta Barluenga

Beyond cichlid diversification: environmental drivers of biodiversity across the Nicaraguan lake system

Abstract The Nicaraguan lake system, comprising two Great Lakes and several isolated crater lakes, is a natural laboratory for investigating how environmental heterogeneity and isolation shape biodiversity and a classic model for Midas cichlid diversification. We asked whether la...

Expression diversity of cichlid MHC alleles

Abstract Background Diversification driven by natural selection is a major source of biodiversity. Parasites and pathogens impose important selective pressures on their hosts, contributing to high levels of polymorphism at immunologically relevant genes within and among populatio...