Publications

2011

Maan M.E. and Seehausen O. 2011. Ecology, sexual selection and speciation. Accepted for publication in Ecology Letters pdf

van der Sluijs I., Gray S.M., Amorim M.C.P., Barber I., Candolin U., Hendry A., Krahe R., Maan M.E., Utne-Palm A.C., Wagner H.J. and Wong B.B.M. Communication in troubled waters: The evolutionary implications of changing environments on fish communication systems. Evolutionary Ecology 25:623-640 pdf

Kraaijeveld K., Kraaijeveld-Smit F.J.L. and Maan M.E. 2011. Sexual selection and speciation: the comparative evidence revisited. Biological Reviews 86: 367-377 pdf

2010

Maan M.E. and Seehausen O. 2010. Mechanisms of species divergence through visual adaptation and sexual selection - perspectives from a cichlid model system. Current Zoology 56: 285-299 pdf

Brown J.L., Maan M.E., Cummings M.E. and Summers K. 2010. Evidence for selection on coloration in a Panamanian poison frog: a coalescent approach. Journal of Biogeography 37: 891-901 pdf

Maan M.E., Seehausen O. and Van Alphen J.J.M. 2010. Female mating preferences and male coloration covary with water transparency in a Lake Victoria cichlid fish. Biological Journal of the Linnean Society 99: 398-406 pdf

2009

Maan M.E. and Cummings M.E. 2009. Sexual dimorphism and directional sexual selection on aposematic signals in a poison frog. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences 106: 19072-19077 pdf SI

2008

Seehausen O., Terai Y. Magalhaes I.S., Carleton K.L., Mrosso H.D.J., Miyagi R. Van der Sluijs I., Schneider M.V., Maan M.E., Tachida H., Shichida Y., Imai H. and Okada N. 2008. Speciation through sensory drive in cichlid fish. Nature 455: 620-626 pdf

Maan M.E., Cummings M.E. 2008. Female preferences for aposematic signal components in a polymorphic poison frog. Evolution 62: 2334-2345 pdf

Maan M.E., Eshuis B., Haesler M.P., Schneider M.V., Van Alphen J.J.M. and Seehausen O. 2008. Color polymorphism and predation in a Lake Victoria cichlid fish. Copeia 3: 621-629 pdf

Maan M.E., Taborsky M. 2008. Sexual conflict over breeding substrate causes female expulsion and offspring loss in a cichlid fish. Behavioral Ecology 19: 302-308 pdf

Maan M.E., Van Rooijen A.M.C., Van Alphen J.J.M. and Seehausen O. 2008. Parasite-mediated sexual selection and species divergence in Lake Victoria cichlid fish. Biological Journal of the Linnean Society 94: 53-60 pdf

2006

Maan M.E. 2006 Sexual selection and speciation: mechanisms in Lake Victoria cichlid fish. PhD Thesis, University of Leiden, the Netherlands link

Maan M.E., van der Spoel M., Quesada Jimenez P., Van Alphen J.J.M. and Seehausen O. 2006. Fitness correlates of male coloration in a Lake Victoria cichlid fish. Behavioral Ecology 17: 691-699 pdf

Maan M.E., Hofker C.D., Seehausen O. and Van Alphen J.J.M. 2006. Sensory drive in cichlid speciation. The American Naturalist 167: 947-954 pdf

Dijkstra P.D., Gricar B.L.A., Seehausen O., Maan M.E. and Groothuis T.G.G. 2006. Can male-male competition stabilise speciation? A test in Lake Victoria haplochromine cichlid fish. Behavioral Ecology and Sociobiology 59: 704-713 pdf

Maan M.E., Haesler M.P., Seehausen O. and Van Alphen J.J.M. 2006. Heritability and heterochrony of polychromatism in a Lake Victoria cichlid fish: stepping stones for speciation? Journal of Experimental Zoology Part B: Molecular and Developmental Evolution 306B: 168-176 pdf

before 2006

Maan M.E., Seehausen, O., Soderberg, L., Johnson, L., Ripmeester, E.A.P., Mrosso, H.D.J., Taylor, M.I., Van Dooren, T.J.M. and Van Alphen, J.J.M. 2004. Intraspecific sexual selection on a speciation trait, male coloration, in the Lake Victoria cichlid Pundamilia nyererei. Proceedings of the Royal Society of London, Series B: Biological Sciences 271: 2445-2452 pdf

Maan M.E., Groothuis, T.G.G. and Wittenberg, J. 2001. Escalated fighting despite predictors of conflict outcome: solving the paradox in a South-American cichlid fish. Animal Behaviour 62: 623-634 pdf

Van Belle J., Maan M.E., Van Gasteren H. and Buurma L.S. 2000. Using radar to obtain a quantitative description of summer bird movements in the Dutch coastal area. Proceedings of the 25th Meeting of the International Bird Strike Committee, WP-RS2, 443-460 pdf