Table of Contents

East African Great Lakes.- The Lake Tanganyika cichlid species assemblage: recent advances in molecular phylogenetics.- Variance in reproductive success and the opportunity for selection in a serially monogamous species: simulations of the mating system of Tropheus (Teleostei: Cichlidae).- Assortative mating preferences between colour morphs of the endemic Lake Tanganyika cichlid genus Tropheus.- Variation of territory size and defense behavior in breeding pairs of the endemic Lake Tanganyika cichlid fish Variabilichromis moorii.- Abundance, distribution, and territory areas of rock-dwelling Lake Tanganyika cichlid fish species.- Subtle population structure and male-biased dispersal in two Copadichromis species (Teleostei, Cichlidae) from Lake Malawi, East Africa.- Ecological correlates of species differences in the Lake Tanganyika crab radiation.- The Great Lakes in East Africa: biological conservation considerations for species flocks.- Balkan Lakes Ohrid and Prespa.- Ancient Lake Ohrid: biodiversity and evolution.- The neglected side of speciation in ancient lakes: phylogeography of an inconspicuous mollusc taxon in lakes Ohrid and Prespa.- Concurrent evolution of ancient sister lakes and sister species: the freshwater gastropod genus Radix in lakes Ohrid and Prespa.- Testing two contrasting evolutionary patterns in ancient lakes: species flock versus species scatter in valvatid gastropods of Lake Ohrid.- Sulawesi Lake Systems.- The species flocks of lacustrine gastropods: Tylomelania on Sulawesi as models in speciation and adaptive radiation.- Gene flow at the margin of Lake Matano’s adaptive sailfin silverside radiation: Telmatherinidae of River Petea in Sulawesi.- Processes regulating the community composition and relative abundance of taxa in the diatomcommunities of the Malili Lakes, Sulawesi Island, Indonesia.- The plankton community of Lake Matano: factors regulating plankton composition and relative abundance in an ancient, tropical lake of Indonesia.