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Preprints
2026
Ernest, C., M. Tobler, M. L. Lozano-Vilano, M. De La Maza-Benignos, T. A. Diver, W. D. Wilson, T. F. Turner and E. W. Carson (accepted): Population genetic and phylogenetic analysis of pupfish (Cyprinodon , Cyprinodontidae) in the Rio Conchos and adjacent rivers reveals hidden diversity. Conservation Genetics .Morrow, K. & M. Tobler (accepted): Unique mating behaviours in knife livebearers of the genus Alfaro (Poeciliidae): new observations from A. huberi . Journal of Fish Biology .Williams, B. L., L. Arias Rodriguez, I. Schlupp & M. Tobler (2026): Resilient by nature: managed care does not erode physiochemical tolerances of an extremophile fish . Biology Letter s 22 (2): 20250646.
2025
Wilson, E. J., S. T. M. Lee, L. H. Zeglin, L. Arias Rodrguez & M. Tobler (2025): Host-microbiome associations in livebearing fishes adapted to toxic environments rich in hydrogen sulfide . Molecular Ecology : e70034.Berbel-Filho, W. M., M. Tobler, T. Reich, A. Eghbalpour, M. J. Ryan, K. Heubel, F. J. García de León & I. Schlupp (2025): Converging or diverging? Shape coevolution between a sperm-dependent asexual and its sexual hosts . Proceedings of the Royal Society London B 292 (2050): 20250432. Ryan, K., R. De-Kayne, J. Davis, L. Arias Rodriguez, M. Tobler & J. L. Kelley (2025): New genome assemblies for Poeciliidae: a foundation for adaptation studies . Genome Biology and Evolution 17 (6): evaf111.Tobler, M. (2025): Convergent evolution in cavefishes. Boletín de Sociedad Ictiológica Mexicana 59: 2-6.Gilbert, E. I., T. A. Diver, S. M. Mussmann, M. J. Saltzgiver, W. K. Knight, S. L. Durst, M. A. Farrington, S. L. Clark Barkalow, M. Tobler & N. R. Franssen (2025): Why is it too cold? Toward a mechanistic understanding of cold-water pollution effects on recruitment of an imperiled warmwater fish . Molecular Ecology 34 (1): e17588.
2024
Coffin, J. L., B. L. Williams & M. Tobler (2024): Genetics and resource availability shape divergence in life history and behavior between locally-adapted populations of Atlantic mollies (Poecilia mexicana , Poeciliidae) . Biological Journal of the Linnean Society 143 (4): blae113.Johnson, E. S., S. D. Johnson, R. McNemee, R. Greenway, L. Arias Rodriguez & M. Tobler (2024): Genital evolution in the dark: characterization of male and female genitalia in cave mollies and their surface ancestors (Poecilia mexicana , Poeciliidae) . Biological Journal of the Linnean Society 143 (4): blae040. Wilson, E. J., N. Barts, J. Coffin, J. B. Johnson, C. M. Rodríguez Peña, J. L. Kelley, M. Tobler, R. Greenway (2024) : Gene expression signatures of salinity transitions in Limia perugiae (Poeciliidae), with comparisons to other teleosts . PLoS One 19 (12): e0315014. Preising, G. A., T. Gunn, J. J. Baczenas, D. L. Powell, T. O. Dodge, S. T. Sewell, A. Pollock, J. A. Machin Kairuz, M. Savage, Y. Lu, M. Fitschen-Brown, A. Meyer, M. Schartl, M. Cummings, S. Thakur, C. M. Inman, O. Ríos-Cardenas, M. Morris, M. Tobler & M. Schumer (2024) : Recurrent evolution of small body size and loss of the sword ornament in Northern swordtail fish . Evolution 78 (12): 2017-2031.Greenway A. P. Brown H. Camarillo C. Delich K. L. McGowan J. T. Nelson L. Arias-Rodriguez J. L. Kelley & M. Tobler (2024): Integrative analyses of convergent adaptation in sympatric extremophile fishes . Current Biology 34 (21): 4968-4982.e7.Nobrega, M., R. Greenway, C. N. Passow, L. Arias Rodriguez & M. Tobler (2024): Effects of plasticity and genetic divergence on phenotypic trait expression of sulfide spring fishes . Environmental Biology of Fishes 107: 611-629.Rick, A., P. J. Pfaff, K. B. Gido, M. Tobler & Hannah Hoffman-Colburn (2024): Morphological plasticity of Bluntnose Minnow Pimephales notatus from pond and stream habitats . Transactions of the Kansas Academy of Science 127 (1–2): 55-62.Perry, B. W., K. L. McGowan, Lenin Arias Rodriguez, M. Tobler & J. L. Kelley (2024): Nascent transcription reveals regulatory changes in extremophile fishes inhabiting hydrogen sulfide-rich environments . Proceedings of the Royal Society London B 291: 20240412.De-Kayne, R., B. W. Perry, K. McGowan, J. Landers, L. Arias Rodriguez, R. Greenway, C. M. Rodríguez Peña, M. Tobler & J. L. Kelley (2024): Evolutionary rate shifts in coding and regulatory regions underpin repeated adaptation to sulfidic streams in poeciliid fishes . Genome Biology and Evolution 16 (5): evae087.Johnson, E. S., M. Tobler & J. B. Johnson (2024): Seasonality predicts variation in life history phenotypes in the livebearing fish Priapichthys annectens . Biological Journal of the Linnean Society 142 (1): 137-145.
2023
Ryan, K., R. Greenway, J. Landers, L. Arias-Rodriguez, M. Tobler & J. L. Kelley (2023): Selection on standing genetic variation mediates convergent evolution in extremophile fish . Molecular Ecology 32 (18): 5042–5054.Palacios Mejia, M., L. Arias-Rodríguez, M. Arciniega, V. Rodríguez, J. E. Barraza Sandoval, N. Herrera, D. C. Marroquín Mora, J. B. Ulloa Rojas, G. Márquez Couturier, G. Voelker & M. Tobler (2023) : Conservation genetics of the tropical gar (Atractosteus tropicus , Lepisosteidae) . Conservation Genetics 24 (4): 405–415.Palacios Mejia, M., A. A. González-Díaz, L. Arias Rodriguez, M. Mateos, R. Rodiles-Hernández, Michael Tobler & G. Voelker (2023) : Phylogenetic relationships of shortfin mollies (Mollienesia , Poecilia , Poeciliidae) in Mexico . Neotropical Ichthyology 21 (2): e220101 .
2022
2021
Wilson E. J., M. Tobler, R. Riesch, L. Martínez-García & F. J. García de León (2021): Natural history and trophic ecology of three populations of the Mexican cavefish, Astyanax mexicanus . Environmental Biology of Fishes 104: 1461–1474.Kelley, J. L., T. Desvignes, K. L. McGowan, M. Perez, L. Arias Rodriguez, A. P. Brown, Z. W. Culumber & M. Tobler (2021): microRNA expression variation in a natural system as a potential molecular mechanism contributing to adaptation to hydrogen sulfide . Journal of Evolutionary Biology 34 (6): 977–988.Kelley, J. L., M. Tobler, D. Beck, I. Sadler-Riggleman, C. R. Quackenbush, L. Arias Rodriguez & M. K. Skinner (2021): Epigenetic inheritance of DNA methylation changes in fish living in hydrogen-sulfide-rich springs . Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences USA 118 (26): e2014929118 .
2020
Greenway, R., N. Barts, C. Henpita, A. P. Brown, L. Arias-Rodriguez, C. M. Rodríguez Peña, S. Arndt, G. Y. Lau, M. P. Murphy, L. Wu, D. Lin, J. H. Shaw, J. L. Kelley & M. Tobler (2020): Convergent evolution of conserved mitochondrial pathways underlies repeated adaptation to extreme environments . Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences USA 117 (28): 16424–16430.Camarillo, H., L. Arias Rodriguez & M. Tobler (2020): Functional consequences of phenotypic variation between locally adapted populations: swimming performance and ventilation in extremophile fish . Journal of Evolutionary Biology 33 (4): 512–523.
2019
Frenette, B. D., L. A. Bruckerhoff, M. Tobler & K. B. Gido (2019): Temperature effects on performance and physiology of two prairie stream minnows . Conservation Physiology 7 (1): coz063.McGowan, K. L., C. N. Passow, L. Arias Rodriguez, M. Tobler & J. L. Kelley (2019): Expression analyses of cave mollies (Poecilia mexicana ) reveal key genes involved in the early evolution of eye regression . Biology Letters 15 (10): 20190554.Tobler, M., N. Barts & R. Greenway (2019): Mitochondria and the origin of species: bridging genetic and ecological perspectives on speciation processes . Integrative and Comparative Biology 59 (4): 900–911.Greenway, R., R. McNemee, A. Okamoto, M. Plath, L. Arias Rodriguez & M. Tobler (2019): Correlated divergence of female and male genitalia in replicated lineages with ongoing ecological speciation . Evolution 73 (6): 1200–1212.Brown, A. P., K. L. McGowan, E. J. Schwarzkopf, R. Greenway, L. Arias Rodriguez, M. Tobler & J. L. Kelley (2019): Local ancestry analysis reveals genomic convergence in extremophile fishes . Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society B 374 (1777): 20180240.Lau, G. Y., N. Barts, R. C. Hartley, M. Tobler, J. G. Richards, M. P. Murphy & S. Arndt (2019): Detection of changes in mitochondrial hydrogen sulfide (H2 S) in vivo in the fish model Poecilia mexicana (Poeciliidae) . Biology Open 8 (5): bio041467.Hotaling, S., C. R. Quackenbush, J. Bennett-Ponsford, D. D. New, L. Arias-Rodriguez, M. Tobler & J. L. Kelley (in press): Microbial diversity in replicated hydrogen sulfide-rich streams . Microbial Ecology 77 (3): 559–573.Husemann, M., M. Tobler, B. Ding, R. Nguyen, C. McCauley, T. Pilger & P. D. Danley (2019): Complex patterns of genetic and phenotypic divergence in populations of the Lake Malawi cichlid Maylandia zebra . Hydrobiologia 832 (1): 135–151.
2018
Brown, A. P., L. Arias-Rodriguez, M.-C. Yee, M. Tobler & J. L. Kelley (2018): Concordant changes in gene expression and nucleotides underlie independent adaptation to hydrogen-sulfide-rich environments . Genome Biology and Evolution 10 (11): 2867–2881.Culumber, Z. W. & M. Tobler (2018): Correlated evolution of thermal niches and functional physiology in tropical freshwater fishes . Journal of Evolutionary Biology 31 (5): 722-734.Tobler, M., J. L. Kelley, M. Plath & R. Riesch (2018): Extreme environments and the origins of biodiversity: adaptation and speciation in sulfide spring fishes . Molecular Ecology 27 (4): 843–859. Barts, N., R. Greenway, C. N. Passow, L. Arias-Rodriguez, J. L. Kelley & M. Tobler (2018): Molecular evolution and expression of oxygen transport genes in livebearing fishes (Poeciliidae) from hydrogen sulfide rich springs . Genome 61 (4): 273–286.
2017
Passow, C. N., C. Henpita, J. H. Shaw, C. R. Quackenbush, W. C. Warren, M. Schartl, L. Arias-Rodriguez, J. L. Kelley & M. Tobler (2017): The roles of plasticity and evolutionary change in shaping gene expression variation in natural populations . Molecular Ecology 26 (22): 6384–6399.Passow, C. N., L. Arias-Rodriguez & M. Tobler (2017) : Convergent evolution of reduced energy demands in extremophile fish . PLOS ONE 12 (10): e0186935 .Brown, A. P., R. Greenway, S. Morgan, C. R. Quackenbush, L. Giordano, L. Arias-Rodriguez, M. Tobler & J. L. Kelley (2017): Genome-scale data reveals that endemic Poecilia populations from small sulphidic springs display no evidence for inbreeding . Molecular Ecology 26 (19): 4920–4934.Passow, C. N., A. P. Brown, L. Arias-Rodriguez, M.-C. Yee, A. Sockell, M. Schartl, W. C. Warren, C. Bustamante, J. L. Kelley & M. Tobler (2017): Complexities of gene expression patterns in natural populations of an extremophile fish (Poecilia mexicana , Poeciliidae) . Molecular Ecology 26 (16): 4211–4225.Culumber, Z. W. & M. Tobler (2017): Sex-specific evolution during the diversification of live-bearing fishes . Nature Ecology & Evolution 1 (8): 1185–1191.Husemann, M., M. Tobler, C. McCauley, B. Ding & P. D. Danley (2017): Body shape differences in a pair of closely related Malawi cichlids and their hybrids: effects of genetic variation, phenotypic plasticity, and transgressive segregation . Ecology and Evolution 7 (12): 4336–4346.Voelker, G., M. Tobler, H. L. Prestridge, E. Duijm, D. Groenenberg, M. R. Hutchinson, A. D. Martin, A. Nieman, C. S. Roselaar & J. W. Huntley (2017): Three new species of Stiphrornis Forest Robins (Aves: Muscicapidae) from the Afro-tropics with a molecular phylogenetic assessment of the genus . Systematics and Biodiversity 15 (2): 87–104.Hopper, G., R. L. Morehouse & M. Tobler (2017): Body shape variation in two species of darters (Etheostoma , Percidae) and its relation to the environment . Ecology of Freshwater Fish 26 (1): 4–18.Bagley, J. C., W. Matamoros, C. McMahan, M. Tobler, P. Chakrabarty & J. B. Johnson (2017): Phylogeography and species delimitation in convict cichlids (Cichlidae: Amatitlania ): implications for taxonomy and Plio–Pleistocene evolutionary history in Central America . Biological Journal of the Linnean Society 120 (1): 155–170.
2016
Culumber, Z. W., G. W. Hopper, N. Barts, C. N. Passow, S. Morgan, A. Brown, L. Arias-Rodriguez & M. Tobler (2016): Habitat use of two extremophile, highly endemic, and critically endangered fish species (Gambusia eurystoma and Poecilia sulphuraria ; Poeciliidae) . Aquatic Conservation – Marine and Freshwater Ecosystems 26 (6): 1155–1167.Greenway, R., S. Drexler, L. Arias-Rodriguez & M. Tobler (2016): Adaptive, but not condition-dependent, body shape differences contribute to assortative mating during ecological speciation . Evolution 70 (12): 2809–2822.Tobler, M., C. N. Passow, R. Greenway, J. L. Kelley & J. H. Shaw (2016): The evolutionary ecology of animals inhabiting hydrogen sulfide rich environments . Annual Review of Ecology, Evolution, and Systematics 47: 239–262.Schulz-Mirbach, T., C. Eifert, R. Riesch, M. Farnworth, C. Zimmer, D. Bierbach, S. Klaus, M. Tobler, B. Streit, J. R. Indy, L. Arias-Rodriguez & M. Plath (2016): Toxic hydrogen sulphide shapes brain anatomy: a comparative study of sulphide-adapted ecotypes in the Poecilia mexicana complex . Journal of Zoology (London) 300: 163–176.Palacios, M., G. Voelker, L. Arias-Rodriguez, M. Mateos & M. Tobler (2016): Phylogenetic analyses of the subgenus Mollienesia (Poecilia , Poeciliidae, Teleostei) reveal taxonomic inconsistencies, cryptic biodiversity, and spatio-temporal aspects of diversification in Middle America . Molecular Phylogenetics and Evolution 103 (10): 230–244.Riesch, R. R., M. Tobler, H. Lerp, J. Jourdan, T. Doumas, P. Nosil, R. B. Langerhans & M. Plath (2016): Extremophile Poeciliidae: multivariate insights into the complexity of speciation along replicated ecological gradients . BMC Evolutionary Biology 16: 136.Fitzgerald, D. B., M. Tobler & K. O. Winemiller (2016): From richer to poorer: successful invasion by freshwater fishes depends on species richness of donor and recipient basins . Global Change Biology 22 (7): 2440–2450.Kelley, J. L., L. Arias-Rodriguez, D. Patacsil Martin, M.-C. Yee, C. Bustamante & M. Tobler (2016): Mechanisms underlying adaptation to life in hydrogen sulfide rich environments . Molecular Biology and Evolution 33 (6): 1419–1434.Hopper, G. W. & M. Tobler (2016): Patterns of trophic resource use and individual specialization in two species of darters (Etheostoma : Percidae) . Evolutionary Ecology Research 17 (1): 53–73.Culumber, Z. W. & M. Tobler (2016): Ecological divergence and conservatism: spatiotemporal patterns of niche evolution in a genus of livebearing fishes (Poeciliidae: Xiphophorus ) . BMC Evolutionary Biology 16: 44.Culumber, Z. W. & M. Tobler (2016): Spatiotemporal environmental heterogeneity and the maintenance of the tailspot polymorphism in the variable platyfish (Xiphophorus variatus ) . Evolution 70 (2): 408–419.Tobler, M., D. M. Alba, L. Arias-Rodriguez & P. D. Jeyasingh (2016): Using replicated evolution in extremophile fish to understand diversification in elemental composition and nutrient excretion . Freshwater Biology 61 (1): 158–171.
2015
Passow, C. N., R. Greenway, L. Arias-Rodriguez, P. D. Jeyasingh & M. Tobler (2015): Reduction of energetic demands through modification of body size and routine metabolic rates in extremophile fish . Physiological and Biochemical Zoology 88 (4): 371–383.Tobler, M., K. Scharnweber, R. Greenway, C. N. Passow, L. Arias-Rodriguez & F. J. Garcia-De-Leon (2015): Convergent changes in the trophic ecology of extremophile fish occurring along replicated environmental gradients . Freshwater Biology 60 (4): 768–780.Culumber, Z. W., M. Schumer, S. Monks & M. Tobler (2015): Environmental heterogeneity generates opposite gene-by-environment interactions for two fitness-related traits within a population . Evolution 69 (2): 541–550.Eifert, C., M. Farnworth, T. Schulz–Mirbach, R. Riesch, D. Bierbach, S. Klaus, A. Wurster, M. Tobler, B. Streit, J. R. Indy, L. Arias–Rodriguez & M. Plath (2015): Brain size variation in extremophile fish: local adaptation vs. phenotypic plasticity . Journal of Zoology (London) 295 (2): 143–153.
2014
Greenway, R., L. Arias-Rodriguez, P. Diaz & M. Tobler (2014): Patterns of macroinvertebrate and fish diversity in freshwater sulphide springs . Diversity 6 (3): 597–632.Sanchez, J. L., B. B. Boutwel, S. T. Hamontree, G. P. Garrett, R. H. Lewis, A. N. Ragan, M. Tobler & R. Deaton Haynes (2014): Reproductive characteristics of two Gambusia congeners in west Texas . Southwestern Naturalist 59 (3): 438–441.Culumber, Z. W., C. E. Bautista-Hernandez, S. Monk, L. Arias-Rodriguez & M. Tobler (2014): Variation in melanism and female preference in proximate but ecologically distinct environments . Ethology 120 (11): 1090–1100.Alberici da Barbiano, L., R. J. Robinson, M. Tobler, A. S. Aspbury & C. R. Gabor (2014): Differences in resource assimilation between the unisexual Amazon molly, Poecilia formosa (Poeciliidae) and its sexual host (Poecilia latipinna ) . Environmental Biology of Fishes 97 (8): 875–880.Tobler, M., C. Henpita, B. Bassett, J. L. Kelley & J. H. Shaw (2014): H2 S exposure elicits differential expression of candidate genes in fish adapted to sulfidic and non-sulfidic environments . Comparative Biochemistry and Physiology A: Molecular & Integrative Physiology 175: 7–14.Pfenninger, M., H. Lerp, M. Tobler, C. Passow, J. L. Kelley, E. Funke, B. Greshake, U. K. Erkoc, T. Berberich & M. Plath (2014): Parallel evolution of cox-genes in H2 S-tolerant fish as key adaptation to a toxic environment . Nature Communications 5: 3873.Tobler, M., M. Plath, R. Riesch, I. Schlupp, A. Grasse, G. Munimanda, C. Setzer, D. J. Penn & Y. Moodley (2014): Selection from parasites favors immunogenetic diversity but not divergence among locally adapted host populations . Journal of Evolutionary Biology 27 (5): 960–974.Husemann, M., M. Tobler, C. McCauley, B. Ding & P. D. Danley (2014): Evolution of body shape in differently colored sympatric congeners and allopatric populations of Lake Malawi’s rock-dwelling cichlids . Journal of Evolutionary Biology 27 (5): 826–839.Jeyasingh, P. D., R. D. Cothran & M. Tobler (2014): Testing the ecological consequences of evolutionary change using elements . Ecology and Evolution 4 (4): 528–538.Tobler, M. & N. Bertrand (2014): Morphological variation in vanishing Mexican desert fishes of the genus Characodon (Goodeidae) . Journal of Fish Biology 84 (2): 283–296.Riesch, R. W., M. Plath, I. Schlupp, M. Tobler & B. Langerhans (2014): Colonization of toxic environments drives predictable life-history evolution in livebearing fishes (Poeciliidae) . Ecology Letters 17 (1): 65–71.
2013
Morehouse, R. L., M. Papes & M. Tobler (2013): Predicting and mapping the potential distribution of the painted devil crayfish, Cambarus ludovicianus Faxon (Decapoda: Cambaridae) . Southwestern Naturalist 58 (4): 435–439.Tobler, M., K. Roach, K. O. Winemiller, R. L. Morehouse & M. Plath (2013): Population structure, habitat use, and diet of giant waterbugs in a sulfidic cave . Southwestern Naturalist 58 (4): 420–426.Morehouse, R. L. & M. Tobler (2013): Crayfishes (Decapoda: Cambaridae) of Oklahoma: identification, distributions, and natural history . Zootaxa 3717 (2): 101–157.Plath, M., M. Pfenninger, H. Lerp, R. Riesch, C. Eschenbrenner, P.A. Slattery, D. Bierbach, N. Herrmann, M. Schulte, L. Arias Rodriguez, J.R. Indy, C. N. Passow & M. Tobler (2013): Genetic differentiation and selection against migrants in evolutionarily replicated extreme environments . Evolution 67 (9): 2647–2661.Palacios, M., L. Arias-Rodriguez, M. Plath, C. Eifert, H. Lerp, A. Lamboj, G. Voelker & M. Tobler (2013): The rediscovery of a long described species reveals additional complexity in speciation patterns of poeciliid fishes in sulfide springs . PLOS ONE 8 (8): e71069.Franssen, N.R. & M. Tobler (2013): Upstream effects of a reservoir on fish assemblages 45 years following impoundment . Journal of Fish Biology 82 (5): 1659–1670.Morehouse, R. & M. Tobler (2013): Invasion of rusty crayfish (Orconectes rusticus ) in the United States: niche shifts and potential future distribution . Journal of Crustacean Biology 33 (2): 293–300.
2012
Kelley, J. L., C. N. Passow, M. Plath, L. Arias Rodriguez, M.-C. Yee & M. Tobler (2012): Genomic resources for a model in adaptation and speciation research: characterization of the Poecilia mexicana transcriptome . BMC Genomics 13: 652.Slattery, P., C. Eschenbrenner, L. Arias-Rodriguez, B. Streit, D. Bierbach, R. Riesch, M. Tobler, M. Pfenniger, B. Feldmeyer, M. Plath & H. Lerp (2012): Twelve new microsatellite loci for the sulphur molly (Poecilia sulphuraria ) and the related Atlantic molly (P. mexicana ) . Conservation Genetics Resources 4 (4): 935–937.Culumber, Z. W., D. B. Shepard, S. W. Coleman, G. G. Rosenthal & M. Tobler (2012): Physiological adaptation along environmental gradients and replicated hybrid zone structure in swordtails (Teleostei: Xiphophorus ) . Journal of Evolutionary Biology 25 (9): 1800–1814.Carson, E. W., M. Tobler, W. L. Minckley, R. J. Ainsworth & T. E. Dowling (2012): Relationships between spatio-temporal environmental and genetic variation reveal an important influence of exogenous selection in a pupfish hybrid zone . Molecular Ecology 21 (5): 1209–1222.
2011
Scharnweber, K., M. Plath & M. Tobler (2011): Trophic niche segregation between the sexes of two species of livebearing fishes (Poeciliidae). Bulletin of Fish Biology 13 (1/2): 11–20.Scharnweber, K., M. Plath, K. Winemiller & M. Tobler (2011): Dietary niche overlap in sympatric asexual and sexual livebearing fishes (Poecilia spp.) . Journal of Fish Biology 79 (7): 1760–1773.Tobler, M. & L. Hastings (2011): Convergent patterns of body shape differentiation in four different clades of poeciliid fishes inhabiting sulfide springs . Evolutionary Biology 38 (4): 412–421.Roach, K., M. Tobler & K.O. Winemiller (2011): Hydrogen sulfide, bacteria, and fish: a unique, subterranean food chain . Ecology 92 (11): 2056–2062.Scharnweber, K., M. Plath & M. Tobler (2011): Examination of boldness traits in sexual and asexual mollies (Poecilia latipinna , P. formosa ) . Acta Ethologica 14 (2): 77–83.Tobler, M., M. Palacios, L. J. Chapman, I. Mitrofanov, D. Bierbach, M. Plath, L. Arians-Rodriguez, F. J. Garcia de Leon & M. Mateos (2011): Evolution in extreme environments: replicated phenotypic differentiation in livebearing fish inhabiting sulfidic springs . Evolution 65 (8): 2213–2228.Bierbach, D., M. Schulte, N. Herrmann, M. Tobler, S. Stadler, C.T. Jung, B. Kunkel, R. Riesch, S. Klaus, M. Ziege, J. Rimber Indy, L. Arias-Rodriguez & M. Plath (2011): Predator-induced changes of female mating preferences: innate and experiential effects . BMC Evolutionary Biology 11: 190.Tobler, M., I. Schlupp & M. Plath (2011): Female feeding time reductions in the presence of males: sexual harassment or costly female choice? Behavioral Ecology 22 (4): 723–729.Plath, M., R. Riesch, Z.W. Culumber, B. Streit & M. Tobler (2011): Predation by a giant water bug (Belostoma sp.) on a cavefish (Poecilia mexicana ): effects of female body size and gestational state . Evolutionary Ecology Research 13: 133–144.Franssen, N.R., M. Tobler & K.B. Gido (2011): Annual variation of community biomass is lower in more diverse stream fish communities . Oikos 120 (4): 582–590.Tobler, M., Z.W. Culumber, M. Plath, K.O. Winemiller & G.G. Rosenthal (2011): An indigenous religious ritual selects for resistance to a toxicant in a livebearing fish . Biology Letters 7 (2): 229–232.Scharnweber, K., M. Plath & M. Tobler (2011): Feeding efficiency and food competition in coexisting sexual and asexual livebearing fishes of the genus Poecilia . Environmental Biology of Fishes 90 (2): 197–205.Culumber, Z.W., H.S. Fisher, M. Tobler, M. Mateos, P.H. Barber, M.D. Sorenson & G.G. Rosenthal (2011): Replicated hybrid zones of Xiphophorus swordtails along an elevational gradient . Molecular Ecology 20 (2): 342–356.
2010
Ketmaier, V., H. Stuckas, J. Hempel, I. Laneck, M. Tobler, M. Plath & R. Tiedemann (2010): Genetic and morphological divergence in the gravel bank grasshopper Chorthippus pullus (Acrididae) from contrasting environments . Organisms Diversity & Evolution 10 (5): 381–395.Schlupp, I., R. Riesch, M. Tobler, M. Plath, J. Parzefall & M. Schartl (2010): A novel, sexually selected trait in poeciliid fishes: female preference for mustache-like, rostral filaments in male Poecilia sphenops . Behavioral Ecology and Sociobiology 64 (11): 1849–1855.Plath, M., B. Hermann, C. Schröder, R. Riesch, M. Tobler, F.J. García de León, I. Schlupp & R. Tiedemann (2010): Catastrophic flood does not lead to loss of small-scale genetic differentiation among locally adapted populations of an extremophile fish (Poecilia mexicana , Poeciliidae) . BMC Evolutionary Biology 10: 256.Voelker, G., R. K. Outlaw, S. Reddy, M. Tobler, J. M. Bates, S. J. Hackett, C. Kahindo, B. D. Marks, J. K. Peterhans & T. P. Gnoske (2010): A new species of boubou (Malaconotidae: Laniarius ) from the Albertine Rift . The Auk 127 (3): 678–689.Plath, M., R. Riesch, A. Oranth, J. Dzienko, N. Karau, A. Schiessl, S. Stadler, A. Wigh, C. Zimmer, L. Arias-Rodriguez, I. Schlupp & M. Tobler (2010): Complementary effects of natural and sexual selection against immigrants maintains differentiation between locally adapted fish . Naturwissenschaften 97 (8): 769–774.Tobler, M. & E. W. Carson (2010): Environmental variation, hybridization, and phenotypic diversification in Cuatro Ciénegas pupfishes . Journal of Evolutionary Biology 23 (7): 1475–1489.Schlupp, I., A. Taebel-Hellwig & M. Tobler (2010): Equal fecundity in asexual and sexual mollies (Poecilia ) . Environmental Biology of Fishes 88 (2): 201–206.Tobler, M. & I. Schlupp (2010): Differential susceptibility to food stress in neonates of sexual and asexual mollies (Poecilia , Poeciliidae) . Evolutionary Ecology 24 (1): 39–47.Tobler, M., S. W. Coleman, B. D. Perkins & G. G. Rosenthal (2010): Reduced opsin gene expression in a cave-dwelling fish . Biology Letters 6 (1): 98–101.
2009
Tobler, M., R. Riesch, C. M. Tobler, T. Schulz-Mirbach & M. Plath (2009): Natural and sexual selection against immigrants maintains differentiation among micro-allopatric populations . Journal of Evolutionary Biology 22 (11): 2298–2304.Fontanier, M. E. & M. Tobler (2009): A morphological gradient revisited: cave mollies vary not only in eye size . Environmental Biology of Fishes 86 (2): 285–292.Tobler, M., R. Riesch, C. M. Tobler & M. Plath (2009): Compensatory behavior in response to sulfide-induced hypoxia affects time budgets, feeding efficiency, and predation risk . Evolutionary Ecology Research 11 (3): 935–948.Tobler, M. & M. Plath (2009): Threatened fishes of the world: Poecilia sulphuraria (Alvarez, 1948) (Poeciliidae) . Environmental Biology of Fishes 85 (4): 333–334.Tobler, M. (2009): Does a predatory insect contribute to the divergence between cave- and surface-adapted fish populations? Biology Letters 5 (4): 506–509.Tobler, M. & M. Plath (2009): Threatened fishes of the world: Gambusia eurystoma Miller, 1975 (Poeciliidae) . Environmental Biology of Fishes 85 (3): 251.Tobler, M. & I. Schlupp (2009): Threatened fishes of the world: Poecilia latipunctata Meek, 1904 (Poeciliidae) . Environmental Biology of Fishes 85 (1): 31–32.Riesch, R., M. Tobler, M. Plath & I. Schlupp (2009): Offspring number in a livebearing fish (Poecilia mexicana , Poeciliidae): reduced fecundity and reduced plasticity in a population of cave mollies . Environmental Biology of Fishes 84 (1): 89–94.
2008
Plath, M., M. Tobler, O. Klawonn & J. Parzefall (2008): Male mating behavior and sexual harassment in population hybrids of cave and surface dwelling Atlantic mollies (Poecilia mexicana , Poeciliidae). Bulletin of Fish Biology 10 (1/2): 69–80.Schaschl, H., M. Tobler, M. Plath, D. J. Penn & I. Schlupp (2008): Polymorphic MHC loci in an asexual fish, the Amazon molly (Poecilia formosa ; Poeciliidae) . Molecular Ecology 17 (24): 5220–5230.Franssen, C. M., M. Tobler, R. Riesch, F. J. García de León, R. Tiedemann, I. Schlupp & M. Plath (2008): Sperm production in an extremophile fish, the cave molly (Poecilia mexicana , Poeciliidae, Teleostei) . Aquatic Ecology 42 (4): 685–692.Tobler, M. (2008): Divergence in trophic ecology characterizes colonization of extreme habitats . Biological Journal of the Linnean Society 95 (3): 517–528.Tobler, M., T. J. DeWitt, I. Schlupp, F. J. García de León, R. Herrmann, P. G. D. Feulner, R. Tiedemann & M. Plath (2008): Toxic hydrogen sulfide and dark caves: Phenotypic and genetic divergence across two environmental gradients in Poecilia mexicana . Evolution 62 (10): 2643–2649.Tobler, M., I. Schlupp & M. Plath (2008): Does divergence in female mate choice affect male size distributions in two cave fish populations? Biology Letters 4 (5): 452–454.Tobler, M. & I. Schlupp (2008): Expanding the horizon: The Red Queen and potential alternatives . Canadian Journal of Zoology 86 (8): 765–773.Tobler, M., C. M. Franssen & M. Plath (2008): Male-biased predation on a cavefish by a giant water bug . Naturwissenschaften 95 (8): 775–779.Tobler, M., R. Riesch, F. J. García de León, I. Schlupp & M. Plath (2008): A new and morphologically distinct cavernicolous population of Poecilia mexicana (Poeciliidae, Teleostei) . Environmental Biology of Fishes 82 (1): 101–108.Tobler, M., R. Riesch, F. J. García de León, I. Schlupp & M. Plath (2008): Two endemic and endangered fishes, Poecilia sulphuraria and Gambusia eurystoma (Poeciliidae, Teleostei), as only survivors in a small sulfidic habitat . Journal of Fish Biology 72 (3): 523–533.Tobler, M. & I. Schlupp (2008): Influence of black spot disease on shoaling behaviour in female western mosquitofish, Gambusia affinis (Poeciliidae, Teleostei) . Environmental Biology of Fishes 81 (1): 29–34.
2007
Plath, M., M. Tobler, R. Riesch, F. J. García de León, O. Giere & I. Schlupp (2007): Survival in an extreme habitat: the role of behavior and energy limitation . Naturwissenschaften 94 (12): 991–996.Tobler, M., I. Schlupp & M. Plath (2007): Predation of a cave fish (Poecilia mexicana , Poeciliidae) by a giant water-bug (Belostoma , Belostomatidae) in a Mexican sulfur cave . Ecological Entomology 32 (5): 492–495.Parzefall, J., C. Kraus, M. Tobler & M. Plath (2007): Photophilic behaviour in a cave fish, Poecilia mexicana (Poeciliidae) . Journal of Fish Biology 71 (4): 1225–1231.Plath, M. & M. Tobler (2007): Sex recognition in surface- and cave-dwelling Atlantic molly females (Poecilia mexicana , Poeciliidae, Teleostei): influence of visual and non-visual cues . Acta Ethologica 10 (2): 81–88.Tobler, M. (2007): Reversed sexual dimorphism and female courtship in the Topaz cichlid, Archocentrus myrnae (Cichlidae, Teleostei), from Costa Rica . Southwestern Naturalist 52 (3): 371–377.Schlupp, I., R. Riesch & M. Tobler (2007): Quick guide—Amazon mollies . Current Biology 17 (14): R536–R537.Plath, M., A. M. Makowicz, I. Schlupp & M. Tobler (2007): Sexual harassment in livebearing fishes (Poeciliidae): comparing courting and non-courting species . Behavioral Ecology 18 (4): 680–688.Tobler, M., I. Schlupp, F. J. García de León, M. Glaubrecht & M. Plath (2007): Extreme habitats as refuge from parasite infections? Evidence from an extremophile fish . Acta Oecologica 31 (3): 270–275.Plath, M., S. Hauswaldt, K. Moll, M. Tobler, F. J. García de León, I. Schlupp & R. Tiedemann (2007): Local adaptation and pronounced genetic differentiation in an extremophile fish, Poecilia mexicana , inhabiting a Mexican cave with toxic hydrogen sulfide . Molecular Ecology 16 (5): 967–976.
Prior to 2006
Tobler, M., H. Burmeister, I. Schlupp & M. Plath (2006): Regressive evolution of visually mediated preferences in the Cave molly (Poecilia mexicana , Poeciliidae, Teleostei). Subterranean Biology 4 (1): 59–65.Plath, M. & M. Tobler (2006): Coercive mating and genitalia size in two populations of a livebearing toothcarp (Poecilia mexicana ): do Cave molly males have shorter gonopodia? Zeitschrift für Fischkunde 8 (1-2): 103–107.Tobler, M. (2006): The eggspots of cichlids: Evolution through sensory exploitation? Zeitschrift für Fischkunde 8 (1-2): 39–46.Schlupp, I., J. Poschadel, M. Tobler & M. Plath (2006): Male size polymorphism and testis weight in two species of mollies (Poecilia latipinna, P. mexicana , Poeciliidae, Teleostei). Zeitschrift für Fischkunde 8 (1-2): 9–16.Tobler, M., I. Schlupp, K. U. Heubel, R. Riesch, F. J. García de León, O. Giere & M. Plath (2006): Life on the edge: Hydrogen sulfide and the fish communities of a Mexican cave and surrounding waters . Extremophiles 10 (6): 577–585.Riesch, R., I. Schlupp, M. Tobler & M. Plath (2006): Reduction of the association preference for conspecifics in cave-dwelling Atlantic mollies, Poecilia mexicana . Behavioral Ecology and Sociobiology 60 (6): 794–802.Tobler, M., M. Plath, H. Burmeister & I. Schlupp (2006): Black spots and female association preferences in a sexual/ asexual mating complex (Poecilia , Poeciliidae, Teleostei) . Behavioral Ecology and Sociobiology 60 (2): 159–165.Tobler, M., K. Wiedemann & M. Plath (2005): Homosexual behaviour in a cavernicolous fish, Poecilia mexicana (Poeciliidae, Teleostei). Zeitschrift für Fischkunde 7 (2): 95–99.Tobler, M., T. Wahli & I. Schlupp (2005): Comparison of parasite communities in native and introduced populations of sexual and asexual mollies of the genus Poecilia (Poeciliidae, Teleostei) . Journal of Fish Biology 67 (4): 1072–1082.Tobler, M. & I. Schlupp (2005): Parasites in sexual and asexual mollies (Poecilia , Poeciliidae, Teleostei): A case for the Red Queen? Biology Letters 1 (2): 166–168.Tobler, M. (2005): Feigning death in the Central American cichlid Parachromis friedrichsthalii . Journal of Fish Biology 66 (3): 877–881.Plath, M., Tobler & I. Schlupp (2004): Cave fish looking for mates: A visual mating preference in surface- and cave-dwelling Atlantic mollies (Poecilia mexicana , Poeciliidae). Zeitschrift für Fischkunde 7 (1): 61–69.
Book chapters
Barts, N. & M. Tobler (2024): Adaptation to hydrogen sulfide: A case study in sulfide spring fishes . In: S. L. Alderman & T. E. Gillis (eds.): Encyclopedia of Fish Physiology (Second Edition), Academic Press: 212-225.García-De León, F. J., I. Schlupp, M. Plath, R. Riesch & M. Tobler (2019): Especiación ecológica y origen de nuevas especies en el complejo Poecilia mexicana basado en estudios genética . En: La Biodiversidad en Tabasco. Estudio de Estado, Vol. 2. CONABIO, México: 425–431.Tobler, M., R. Riesch & M. Plath (2015): Extremophile fishes: an integrative synthesis . In: R. Riesch, M. Tobler & M. Plath (eds.): Extremophile Fishes: Ecology, Evolution, and Physiology of Teleosts in Extreme Environments. Springer, Heidelberg: 279–296Riesch, R., M. Tobler & M. Plath (2015): Hydrogen sulfide-toxic habitats . In: R. Riesch, M. Tobler & M. Plath (eds.): Extremophile Fishes: Ecology, Evolution, and Physiology of Teleosts in Extreme Environments. Springer, Heidelberg: 137–159.Plath, M., M. Tobler & R. Riesch (2015): Extremophile fishes: an introduction . In: R. Riesch, M. Tobler & M. Plath (eds.): Extremophile Fishes: Ecology, Evolution, and Physiology of Teleosts in Extreme Environments. Springer, Heidelberg: 1–7.Morehouse, R. L. & M. Tobler (2014): Striped Shiner (Luxilus chrysocephalus Rafinesque 1820) . In: D. A. Distler, M. E. Eberle, D. R. Edds, K. B. Gido, S. G. Haslouer, D. G. Huggins, T. D. Mosher, W. J. Stark, J. R. Tomelleri, J. R. Triplett & E. O. Wiley (eds.): Kansas Fishes. University Press of Kansas, Lawrence, KS, USA: 171–172.Tobler, M. & M. Plath (2011): Living in extreme environments . In: J. Evans, A. Pilastro & I. Schlupp (eds.): Ecology and Evolution of Poeciliid Fishes. Chicago University Press, Chicago, IL, USA: 120–127.Plath, M. & M. Tobler (2010): Subterranean fishes of Mexico (Poecilia mexicana , Poeciliidae) . In: E. Trajano, M. E. Bichuette & B. G. Kapoor (eds.): The Biology of Subterranean Fishes. Science Publishers, Enfield, NH, USA: 283–332.
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