Publications

21.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. DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.5410.3.10
20.Costa VA, Ronco F, Mifsud JCO, Harvey E, Salzburger W, HolmesEC (2023). Host adaptive radiation is associated with rapid virus diversification and cross-species transmission in African cichlid fishes. (under review, bioRxiv, 2023.06. 28.546811)
19.Ricci V, Ronco F, Boileau N and Salzburger W (2023). Visual opsin gene expression evolution in the adaptive radiation of cichlid fishes of Lake Tanganyika. Science Advances, 9, eadg6568 DOI: 10.1126/sciadv.adg6568
18.Laurentino T G, Boileau N, Ronco F and Berner D (2022). The ectodysplasin-A receptor is a candidate gene for lateral plate number variation in stickleback fish. G3 Genes|Genomes|Genetics, 12(6):1-10 doi.org/10.1093/g3journal/jkac077
17.Ricci V, Ronco F, Musilova Z and Salzburger W (2022). Molecular evolution and depth‐related adaptations of rhodopsin in the adaptive radiation of cichlid fishes in Lake Tanganyika. Molecular Ecology 31:2882–2897 doi.org/10.1111/mec.16429
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Ronco F and Salzburger W (2021). Tracing evolutionary decoupling of oral and pharyngeal jaws in cichlid fishes. Evolution Letters 5:625-635 doi.org/10.1002/evl3.257

15.El Taher A, Ronco F, Matschiner M, Salzburger W and Böhne A (2021). Dynamics of sex chromosome evolution in a rapid radiation of cichlid fish. Science Advances 7: eabe8215 DOI: 10.1126/sciadv.abe8215
14.Viertler A, Salzburger W & Ronco F (2021). Comparative scale morphology in the adaptive radiation of cichlid fishes (Perciformes: Cichlidae) from Lake Tanganyika. Biological Journal of the Linnean Society 134: 541-556 doi.org/10.1093/biolinnean/blab099
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Ronco F & Salzburger W. (2021) The non-gradual nature of adaptive radiation. Zoology 146:125925 doi.org/10.1016/j.zool.2021.125925

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Laurentino T, Xavier M, Ronco F , Pina‑ Martins F , Domingues I, Penha B, Dias M, de Sousa A , Carrilho T, Rodrigues L. R, Pinheiro C, Rato D, Balata D, Ayala‑ Botto G, Matos M, Campelo M and Botelho R. (2021) evALLution: making basic evolution concepts accessible to people with visual impairment through a multisensory tree of life. Evolution: Education and Outreach 14:5 doi.org/10.1186/s12052-021-00143-1

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El Taher A, A Böhne, N Boileau, F Ronco, A Indermaur, L Widmer & W Salzburger (2021) Gene expression dynamics during rapid organismal diversification in African cichlid fishes. Nature Ecology and Evolution 5: 243–250. https://www.nature.com/articles/s41559-020-01354-3
10.Ronco F, M Matschiner, A Böhne, A Boila, HH Büscher, A El Taher, A Indermaur, M Malinsky, V Ricci, A Kahmen, S Jentoft & W Salzburger (2021) Drivers and dynamics of a massive adaptive radiation in cichlid fishes. Nature 589: 76–81. https://www.nature.com/articles/s41586-020-2930-4
9.Matschiner M, A Böhne, F Ronco & W Salzburger (2020) The genomic timeline of cichlid fish diversification across continents. Nature Communications 11: 5895. https://www.nature.com/articles/s41467-020-17827-9
8.Laurentino, T.G., Moser, D., Roesti, M., Ronco, F., et al. Genomic release-recapture experiment in the wild reveals within-generation polygenic selection in stickleback fish. Nature Communications 11, 1928 (2020). https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-020-15657-3 https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-020-15657-3
7.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 fish. Proc. R. Soc. B. 28720200127 http://doi.org/10.1098/rspb.2020.0127
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Ronco F, HH Büscher, A Indermaur & W Salzburger (2020) The taxonomic diversity of the cichlid fish fauna of ancient Lake Tanganyika, East Africa. Journal of Great Lakes Research 46: 1067–1078. reprint.pdf

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Ronco F, M Roesti & W Salzburger (2019) A functional trade-off between trophic adaptation and parental care predicts sexual dimorphism in cichlid fish. Proceedings of the Royal Society B 286: 20191050. reprint.pdf

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Widmer L, E Heule, M Colombo, A Rueegg, A Indermaur, F Ronco & W Salzburger (2019) Point-­Combination­Transect­(PCT):­Incorporation­ of­ small­ underwater ­cameras­ to ­study fish ­communities. Methods in Ecology and Evolution 10: 891-901. reprint.pdf

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Theis A, O Roth, F Cortesi, F Ronco, W Salzburger & B Egger (2017) Variation of anal fin egg-spots along an environmental gradient in a haplochromine cichlid fish. Evolution 71: 766-777. .pdf

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Ronco, F and Salzburger, W, 2016. Speciation: Genomic Archipelagos in a Crater Lake. Current Biology, 26(5), pp.R197-R199. https://www.cell.com/current-biology/pdf/S0960-9822(16)30004-5.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) doi.org/10.1111/mec.12939