PUBLICATIONS
King L, Wienhues G, Misra P, Tylmann W, Lami A, Bernasconi SM, Jaggi M, Courtney-Mustaphi C, Muschick M, Ngoepe N, Mwaiko S, Kishe MA, Cohen A, Heiri O, Seehausen O, Vogel H, Grosjean M & Matthews B
Anthropogenic eutrophication drives major food web changes in Mwanza Gulf, Lake Victoria
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Berke M, Peppe D & the Lake Victoria Drilling Project consortium
ICDP workshop on the Lake Victoria Drilling Project (LVDP): scientific drilling of the world’s largest tropical lake
Scientific Drilling (2024) pdf link
Ngoepe N, Merz A, King L, Wienhues G, Kishe MA, Mwaiko S, Misra P, Grosjean M, Matthews B, Courtney-Mustaphi C, Heiri O, Cohen A, Tinner W, Muschick M & Seehausen O
Testing alternative hypotheses for the decline of cichlid fish in Lake Victoria using fish fossils time series from sediment cores
Biology Letters (2024) pdf link
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Wienhues G, Lami A, Bernasconi SM, Jaggi M, Morlock MA, Vogel H, Cohen A, Courtney-Mustaphi C, Heiri O, King L, Kishe MA, Misra P, Muschick M, Ngoepe N, Matthews B, Seehausen O, Temoltzin-Loranca Y, Tinner W & Grosjean M
Latest Pleistocene and Holocene aquatic primary paleo-production and producer communities in phase with hydroclimate changes in Lake Victoria, eastern Africa
Quaternary Science Reviews (2024) pdf link
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King L, Courtney-Mustaphi C, Cuenca-Cambronero M, Wienhues G, Ngoepe N, Temoltzin-Loranca Y, Muschick M, Vogel H, Grosjean M, Tinner W, Kishe MA, Heiri O, Seehausen O & Matthews B
Temporal dynamics of invertebrate community assembly in Lake Victoria since the Late Pleistocene based on chitinous remains
Freshwater Biology (2024) pdf link
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Wienhues G, Temoltzin-Loranca Y, Vogel H, Morlock MA, Cohen A, Anselmetti FS, Bernasconi SM, Jaggi M, Tylmann W, Kishe MA, King L, Ngoepe N, Courtney-Mustaphi C, Muschick M, Matthews B, Mwaiko S, Seehausen O, Tinner W & Grosjean M
From desiccation to wetlands and outflow: rapid re-filling of Lake Victoria during the Latest Pleistocene 14–13 ka
Journal of Great Lakes Research (2023) pdf link
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Muschick M, Jemmi E, Lengacher N, Hänsch S, Wales N, Kishe MA, Mwaiko S, Dieleman J, Lever MA, Salzburger W, Verschuren D & Seehausen O
Ancient DNA is preserved in fish fossils from tropical lake sediments
Molecular Ecology (2023) pdf link
Ngoepe N, Muschick M, Kishe MA, Mwaiko S, Temoltzin-Loranca Y, Courtney-Mustaphi C, King L, Cuenca-Cambronero M, Wienhues G, Grosjean M, Matthews B & Seehausen O
A continuous fish fossil record reveals key insights into adaptive radiation
Nature 622:315-320 (2023) pdf link news&views
Temoltzin-Loranca Y, Gobet E, Vannière B, van Leeuwen JFN, Wienhues G, Courtney-Mustaphi C, Kishe MA, Muschick M, King L, Misra P, Ngoepe N, Matthews B, Vogel H, Heiri O, Seehausen O, Grosjean M & Tinner W
Ecological long-term successions around Lake Victoria from the Late-Glacial to the onset of the Holocene African Humid Period
Palaeogeography, Palaeoclimatology, Palaeoecology (2023) pdf link
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Temoltzin-Loranca Y, Gobet E, Vannière B, van Leeuwen JFN, Wienhues G, Szidat S, Courtney-Mustaphi C, Kishe MA, Muschick M, Seehausen O, Grosjean M & Tinner W
A chronologically reliable record of 17,000 years of biomass burning in the Lake Victoria area
Quaternary Science Reviews 301:107915 (2023) pdf link
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Chaturvedi S, Gompert Z, Feder JF, Osborne OG, Muschick M, Riesch R, Soria-Carrasco V & Nosil P
Climatic similarity and genomic background shape the extent of parallel adaptation in Timema stick insects
Nature Ecology & Evolution 6:1952–1964 (2022) pdf link preprint
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Muschick M, Nikolaeva E, Rüber L & Matschiner M
The mitochondrial genome of the red icefish (Channichthys rugosus) casts doubt on its species status
Polar Biology 45:1541–1552 (2022) pdf link preprint
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Cuenca-Cambronero M, Courtney-Mustaphi CJ, Greenway R, Heiri O, Hudson CM, King L, Lemmen KD, Moosmann M, Muschick M, Ngoepe N, Seehausen O & Matthews B
An integrative paleolimnological approach for studying evolutionary processes
Trends in Ecology and Evolution 37:488-496 (2022) pdf link
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Monchamp ME, Bruel R, Frossard V, McGowan S, Lavrieux M, Muschick M, Perga ME & Dubois N
Paleoecological evidence for a multi-trophic regime shift in a perialpine lake (Lake Joux, Switzerland)
Anthropocene 35:100301 (2021) pdf link
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Villoutreix R, de Carvalho CF, Soria-Carrasco V, Lindtke D, De-la-Mora M, Muschick M, Feder JL, Parchman TL, Gompert Z & Nosil P
Large-scale mutation in the evolution of a gene complex for cryptic coloration
Science 369:460-466 (2020) pdf link
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Muschick M*, Soria-Carrasco V*, Feder JL, Gompert Z & Nosil P
Adaptive zones shape the magnitude of premating reproductive isolation in Timema stick insects
Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society B 375:20190541 (2020) pdf link
Russell JM, Barker P, Cohen AS, Ivory S, Kimirei, Lane C, Leng M, Maganza N, McGlue M, Msaky E, Noren A, Park Boush L, Salzburger W, Scholz C, Tiedemann R, Nuru S & the Lake Tanganyika Scientific Drilling Project (TSDP) Consortium
ICDP workshop on the Lake Tanganyika Scientific Drilling Project: a late Miocene–present record of climate, rifting, and ecosystem evolution from the world’s oldest tropical lake
Scientific Drilling 27:53-60 (2020) pdf link
Dieleman J*, Muschick M*, Nyingi WD & Verschuren D
Species integrity and origin of Oreochromis hunteri (Pisces: Cichlidae), endemic to crater Lake Chala (Kenya-Tanzania)
Hydrobiologia 832:269-282 (2019) pdf link
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Kovac R, Boileau N, Muschick M & Salzburger W
The diverse prey spectrum of the Tanganyikan scale-eater Perissodus microlepis (Boulenger, 1898)
Hydrobiologia 832:85-92 (2019) pdf link
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Muschick M, Russell JM, Jemmi EI, Walker J, Stewart KM, Murray AM, Dubois N, Stager JC, Johnson TC & Seehausen O
Arrival order and release from competition does not explain why haplochromine cichlids radiated in Lake Victoria
Proceedings of the Royal Society B 285:20180462 (2018) pdf link
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Muschick M & Salzburger W
Adaptive radiation: An archipelago replete with replicates
Current Biology 28:R565-R567 (2018) pdf link
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Riesch R*, Muschick M*, Lindtke D*, Villoutreix R*, Comeault AA, Farkas T, Lucek K, Hellen E, Soria-Carrasco V, Dennis SR, de Carvalho CF, Safran RJ, Sandoval CP, Feder J, Gries R, Crespi BJ, Gries G, Gompert Z* & Nosil P
Transitions between phases of genomic differentiation during speciation
Nature Ecology & Evolution 1:0082 (2017) pdf link
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Janzen T, Alzate A, Muschick M, Maan M, van der Plas F & Etienne RS
Community assembly in Lake Tanganyika cichlid fish: quantifying the contributions of both niche-based and neutral processes
Ecology & Evolution 7:1057-1067 (2017) pdf link
Spinks R, Muschick M, Salzburger W & Gante H
Singing above the chorus: cooperative Princess cichlid fish (Neolamprologus pulcher) has high pitch
Hydrobiologia 791:115-125 (2016) pdf link
Boileau N, Cortesi F, Egger B, Muschick M, Indermaur A, Theis A, Büscher HH & Salzburger W
A complex mode of aggressive mimicry in a scale-eating cichlid fish
Biology Letters 11:20150521 (2015) pdf link
Comeault AA, Riesch R, Curran E, Soria-Carrasco V, Gompert Z, Farkas TE, Muschick M, Parchman TL, Schwander T, Slate J & Nosil P
Selection on a genetic polymorphism counteracts ecological speciation in a stick insect
Current Biology 25:1975-1981 (2015) pdf link
Muschick M, Nosil P, Roesti M, Dittmann MT, Harmon L & Salzburger W
Testing the stage model in the adaptive radiation of cichlid fishes in East African Lake Tanganyika
Proceedings of the Royal Society B 281:1795 (2014) pdf link
Nosil P, Riesch R & Muschick M
Climate affects geographic variation in host-plant but not mating preferences of Timema cristinae stick-insect populations
Evolutionary Ecology Research 15:1-16 (2013) pdf link
Colombo M, Diepeveen E, Muschick M, Santos E, Indermaur A, Boileau N, Barluenga M & Salzburger W
The ecological and genetic basis of convergent thick-lipped phenotypes in cichlid fishes
Molecular Ecology 22:670-684 (2013) pdf link
Muschick M, Indermaur A & Salzburger W
Convergence within an adaptive radiation of cichlid fishes
Current Biology 22:2362-2368 (2012) pdf link dispatch
Dittmann M, Roesti M, Indermaur A, Colombo M, Gschwind M, Keller I, Kovac R, Muschick M & Salzburger W
Depth-dependent abundance of Midas cichlid fish (Amphilophus spp.) in two Nicaraguan crater lakes
Hydrobiologia 686:277-285 (2012) pdf link
Rutschmann S, Matschiner M, Damerau M, Muschick M, Lehmann MF, Hanel R & Salzburger W
Parallel ecological diversification in Antarctic notothenioid fishes as evidence for adaptive radiation
Molecular Ecology 20:4707-4721 (2011) pdf link
Muschick M, Barluenga M, Salzburger W & Meyer A
Adaptive phenotypic plasticity in the Midas cichlid fish pharyngeal jaw and its relevance in adaptive radiation
BMC Evolutionary Biology 11:116 (2011) pdf link
Barluenga M*, Stölting KN*, Salzburger W*, Muschick M & Meyer A
Sympatric speciation in a Nicaraguan crater lake cichlid fish
Nature 439:719-723 (2006) pdf link
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