Publications

30.Huyghe, C. E., Fages, A., Ronco, F., Indermaur, A., Schedel, F. D., Kimirei, I., ... & Salzburger, W. (2025). Metagenomic Insights Into the Dietary Diversity of the Adaptive Radiation of Cichlid Fishes in Lake Tanganyika. Molecular Ecology, 34(9), e17743.
29.Indermaur, A., Schedel, F. D., & Ronco, F. (2025). Morphological diversity of the genus Telmatochromis from the Lake Tanganyika drainage with the description of a new riverine species and the generic reassignment of the Malagarasi River lamprologine. Journal of Fish Biology, 106(4), 1214-1230.
28.Kłodawska, M., Indermaur, A., Bitja Nyom, A. R., Omelchenko, D., Bartoš, O., & Musilova, Z. (2025). Seeing in the deep: evolution of the opsin gene expression in Bermin crater lake cichlids. bioRxiv, 2025-02.
27.Fages, A., Luxey, M., Ronco, F., Huyghe, C. E., Menon, P. N. K., Indermaur, A., ... & Tschopp, P. (2024). Adaptive cellular evolution in the intestinal tracts of hyperdiverse African cichlid fishes. bioRxiv, 2024-11
26.Omelchenko, D., Bitja‐Nyom, A. R., Matschiner, M., Malinsky, M., Indermaur, A., Salzburger, W., ... & Musilova, Z. (2024). Haemoglobin Gene Repertoire in Teleost and Cichlid Fishes Shaped by Gene Duplications and Genome Rearrangements. Molecular Ecology, 33(22), e17559
25.Duque-Correa, M. J., Clements, K. D., Meloro, C., Ronco, F., Boila, A., Indermaur, A., ... & Clauss, M. (2024). Diet and habitat as determinants of intestine length in fishes. Reviews in fish biology and fisheries, 34(3), 1017-1034.
25.Sommer, G. M., Njom, S. D., Indermaur, A., Nyom, A. R. B., Jandová, K., Kukla, J., ... & Musilova, Z. (2024). Trophic ecology of the African riverine elephant fishes (Mormyridae). Ecology and Evolution, 14(8), e70173.
24.Nichols, A. L., Shafer, M. E., Indermaur, A., Rüegg, A., Gonzalez-Dominguez, R., Malinsky, M., ... & Schier, A. F. (2024). Widespread temporal niche partitioning in an adaptive radiation of cichlid fishes. bioRxiv, 2024-05.
23.Schedel, F. D., Huyghe, C. E., Boileau, N., Indermaur, A., Ronco, F., Fritschi, L. M., ... & Salzburger, W. (2024). Surrounded by Great Lakes: Assessing the ichthyological diversity of Northern Zambian drainage systems. Journal of Great Lakes Research, 50(3), 102245.
22.Haefeli, A., Schedel, F. D., Ronco, F., Indermaur, A., & Salzburger, W. (2024). Revision of the cichlid fish genus Gnathochromis (Teleostei: Cichlidae) from Lake Tanganyika with the description of a new genus Jabarichromis gen. nov. Zootaxa, 5410(3), 434-450.
21.da Silva, M. A., Ottoni, F. P., Mattos, J. L., Indermaur, A., Katz, A. M., & Salzburger, W. (2023). Species diversity and phylogeography of the Australoheros autrani group (Teleostei, Cichlidae) in eastern Brazil. Ichthyological Research, 70(3), 378-385.
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Sommer, G. M., Njom, S. D., Indermaur, A., Bitja Nyom, A. R., Horká, P., Kukla, J., & Musilova, Z. (2023). Trophic niche differentiation in the African elephant fish community (Mormyridae) from the Sanaga River in Cameroon. bioRxiv, 2023-06.

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Schedel, F. D., Musilova, Z., Indermaur, A., Bitja‐Nyom, A. R., Salzburger, W., & Schliewen, U. K. (2022). Towards the phylogenetic placement of the enigmatic African genus Prolabeops Schultz, 1941. Journal of Fish Biology, 101(5), 1333-1342.

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El Taher, A., Böhne, A., Boileau, N., Ronco, F., Indermaur, A., Widmer, L., & Salzburger, W. (2021). Gene expression dynamics during rapid organismal diversification in African cichlid fishes. Nature Ecology & Evolution, 5(2), 243-250.

17.Ronco, F., Matschiner, M., Böhne, A., Boila, A., Büscher, H. H., El Taher, A., ... & Salzburger, W. (2021). Drivers and dynamics of a massive adaptive radiation in cichlid fishes. Nature, 589(7840), 76-81.
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Ronco, F., Büscher, H. H., Indermaur, A., & Salzburger, W. (2020). The taxonomic diversity of the cichlid fish fauna of ancient Lake Tanganyika, East Africa. Journal of Great Lakes Research, 46(5), 1067-1078.

15. Widmer, L, Indermaur, A, Egger, B, Salzburger, W. Where Am I? Niche constraints due to morphological specialization in two Tanganyikan cichlid fish species. Ecol Evol. 2020; 10: 9410– 9418. https://doi.org/10.1002/ece3.6629
14. Bose Aneesh P. H., Windorfer J., Böhm A., Ronco F., Indermaur A., Salzburger W., Jordan A. (2020) Structural manipulations of a shelter resource reveal underlying preference functions in a shell-dwelling cichlid fishProc. R. Soc. B.28720200127http://doi.org/10.1098/rspb.2020.0127
13. Musilova, Z, Indermaur, A, Bitja‐Nyom, AR, et al. Evolution of the visual sensory system in cichlid fishes from crater lake Barombi Mbo in Cameroon. Mol Ecol. 2019; 28: 5010– 5031. https://doi.org/10.1111/mec.15217
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Ronco F., Büscher H H., Indermaur A., Salzburger W., (2019) The taxonomic diversity of the cichlid fish fauna of ancient Lake Tanganyika, East Africa,
Journal of Great Lakes Research

11.Widmer, L., Heule, E., Colombo, M., Rueegg, A., Indermaur, A., Ronco, F., & Salzburger, W. (2019). Point-Combination Transect (PCT): Incorporation of small underwater cameras to study fish communities. Methods in ecology and evolution, 10(6), 891–901. https://doi.org/10.1111/2041-210X.13163
10.Majtánová, Z.; Indermaur, A.; Bitja Nyom, A.R.; Ráb, P.; Musilova, Z. Adaptive Radiation from a Chromosomal Perspective: Evidence of Chromosome Set Stability in Cichlid Fishes (Cichlidae: Teleostei) from the Barombi Mbo Lake, Cameroon. Int. J. Mol. Sci. 2019, 20, 4994.
9.Indermaur, A., Theis, A., Egger, B. and Salzburger, W. (2018), Mouth dimorphism in scale‐eating cichlid fish from Lake Tanganyika advances individual fitness. Evolution, 72: 1962-1969. doi:10.1111/evo.13552
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Colombo M, Indermaur A, Meyer B S, & Salzburger W (2016). Habitat use and its implications to functional morphology: niche partitioning and the evolution of locomotory morphology in Lake Tanganyikan cichlids (Perciformes: Cichlidae). Biological Journal of the Linnean Society.
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Indermaur A*, Meyer B*, Ehrensperger X, Egger B, Banyankimbona G, Snoeks J & W Salzburger W (2015) Back to Tanganyika: a case of recent trans-species-flock dispersal in East African haplochromine cichlid fishes. Royal Society Open Science 2: 140498. .pdf
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Theis A*, Ronco F*, Indermaur A, Salzburger W and Egger B (2014) Adaptive divergence between lake and stream populations of an East African cichlid fish. Molecular Ecology (doi: 10.1111/mec.12939)
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Musilová Z., Indermaur A., Bitja Nyom A. R., Tropek R., Martin C., Schliewen U.K. (in press) Persistence of Stomatepia mongo, an endemic cichlid fish of the Barombi Mbo crater lake, SW Cameroon, with notes on its ecology and behavior. Copeia.

4. Egger B, Klaefiger Y, Indermaur A, Koblmüller S, Theis A, Egger S, Näf T, Van Steenberge M, Sturmbauer C , Katongo C, Salzburger W; (2014) Phylogeographic and phenotypic assessment of a basal haplochromine cichlid fish from Lake Chila, Zambia, Hydrobiologia, 1-14 .pdf
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Muschick M, Indermaur A, Salzburger W (2012) Convergent Evolution within an Adaptive Radiation of Cichlid Fishes Current Biology, Volume 22, Issue 24, 18 December, Pages 2362–2368. .pdf

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Dittmann MT, M Roesti, A Indermaur, M Colombo, M Gschwind, I Keller, R Kovac, M Barluenga, M Muschick & W Salzburger (2012) Depth-dependent abundance of Midas Cichlid fish (Amphilophus spp.) in two Nicaraguan crater lakes. Hydrobiologia 686: 277-285. .pdf

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Colombo M*, Diepeveen ET*, Muschick M, Santos E, Indermaur A, Boileau N, Barlueng M and W Salzburger (2012) The ecological and genetic basis of convergent thick-lipped phenotypes in cichlid fishes. Molecular Ecology. doi: 10.1111/mec.12029. *These authors contributed equally to this work. .pdf

Publications (non peer-reviewed)

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Indermaur, Adrian. 2014 "Über den Tellerrand geschaut – Buntbarsche aus dem Lufubu". Die Aquarien- und Terrarien-Zeitschrift (DATZ) (Nr. 10, Oktober) .pdf


Publications (Posters)

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Fifth International Conference of the Pan African Fish and Fisheries Association (PAFFA 5) 2013 (Bujumbura, Burundi), Indermaur, Adrian; „Back to Tanganyika: a case of a recent immigration into a species-flock of East African cichlid fishes“

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Exhibition of the Center for Africa Studies 2012 (University of Basel, Switzerland), Indermaur, Adrian; „Back to Tanganyika – Migration between closed systems“

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Cichlidscience 2012 (University of Leuven, Belgium): Indermaur, Adrian; „Back to Tanganyika - Migration between closed systems“