Further Publications

Kusche H, Recknagel H, Elmer KR, Meyer A (2014) Crater lake cichlids individually specialize along the benthic-limnetic axis. Ecol Evol 4(7):1127-1139, DOI:10.1002/ece3.1015

https://literatur.thuenen.de/digbib_extern/dn053838.pdf

Torres-Dowdall J, Machado-Schiaffino G, Kaut AF, Kusche H, Meyer A (2014) Differential predation on the two colour morphs of Nicaraguan Crater lake Midas Cichlid fish: implications for the maintenance of its gold-dark polymorphism. Biol J Linn Soc 112(1):123-131, DOI:10.1111/bij.12271

Kusche H, Meyer A (2014) One cost of being gold: selective predation and implications for the maintenance of the Midas Cichlid colour polymorphism (Perciformes: Cichlidae). Biol J Linn Soc 111(2):350-358, DOI:10.1111/bij.12205

Elmer KR, Kusche H, Fan S, Spreitzer M-L, Kaut AF, Franchini P, Meyer A (2014) Parallel evolution of Nicaraguan crater lake cichlid fishes via non-parallel routes. Nature Comm 5:No. 5168, DOI:10.1038/ncomms6168

Kusche H (2013) Aquatic travel: Midas cichlids - species hotbeds in Central American volcanic crater lakes. Amazonas 2(5):58-69

Manousaki T, Hull PM, Kusche H, Machado-Schiaffino G, Franchini P, Harrod C, Elmer KR, Meyer A (2013) Parsing parallel evolution: ecological divergence and differential gene expression in the adaptive radiations of thick-lipped Midas Cichlid fishes from Nicaragua. Mol Ecol 22(3):650-669, DOI:10.1111/mec.12034

Recknagel H, Kusche H, Elmer KR, Meyer A (2013) Two new endemic species in the Midas Cichlid species complex from Nicaraguan crater lakes: Amphilophus tolteca and Amphilophus viridis (Perciformes, Cichlidae). Aqua 19(4):207-224

Kusche H (2013) Zitronenbuntbarsche - Artentstehung in Vulkankraterseen. Amazonas (Münster) 9(2):66-73

Lee HJ, Kusche H, Meyer A (2012) Handed foraging behavior in scale-eating cichlid fish: its potential role in shaping morphological asymmetry. PLoS One 79(9):e44670, DOI:10.1371/journal.pone.0044670

https://literatur.thuenen.de/digbib_extern/dn053850.pdf

Kusche H, Lee HJ, Meyer A (2012) Mouth asymmetry in the textbook example of scale-eating cichlid fish is not a discrete dimorphism after all. Proc R Soc Ser B Biol Sci 279(1748):4715-4723, DOI:10.1098/rspb.2012.2082

Kusche H (2011) Ein Lehrbuchbeispiel in Erklärungsnot: Schuppenfresser. DATZ 64(11):52-54

Elmer KR, Kusche H, Lehtonen TK, Meyer A (2010) Local variation and parallel evolution: morphological and genetic diversity across a species complex of neotropical crater lake cichlid fishes. Philos Trans Royal Soc B 365(1547):1763-1782, DOI:10.1098/rstb.2009.0271