Supplementary information: Allopatric speciation in the desert – diversification of cichlids at their geographical and ecological range limit in Iran

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Figure S1 - ML - trees based on D-loop and ND2 alignment

Supplementary information: Allopatric speciation in the desert – diversification of cichlids at their

geographical and ecological range limit in Iran

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Figure S2 - Mismatch distribution for clade A and B. Blue – data, red – simulation under a sudden (demographic) expansion model, green – simulation under a spatial expansion model.!

Supplementary information: Allopatric speciation in the desert – diversification of cichlids at their

geographical and ecological range limit in Iran

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Table S2: FST values and waterway distances between River systems

FST values (lower diagonal) and waterway distances (upper diagonal) between River systems.

Distances between River systems are given as mean value of waterway distances between

sampling sites between the River systems.

Location Mehran Kol Shur Minab/Rudan

Mehran - 376.16 289.66 406.33

Kol 0.833** - 330 422.68

Shur 0.911** 0.225** - 254

Minab/Rudan 0.911** 0.518** 0.800** -

** = highly significant (p < 0.001), * = significant (p < 0.05)

Table S3: Population pairwise FST (lower diagonal) and waterway distances in km (upper diagonal). River systems abbreviated M=Mehran, K=Kol, S=Shur, Min=Minab

Location M_Kok

herd

M_Gotow M_Dejhghan K_Faryab K_God -

E- Gaz

S_Khorgo Min_

Rudan

M_Kokherd - 31 112 416 390 317 433

M_Gotow 0.153** - 144 448 422 348 465

M_Dejhghan 0.138** 0.054* - 304 277 204 321

K_Faryab 0.846** 0.855** 0.877** - 30 343 515

K_God -E- Gaz 0.822** 0.829** 0.850** 0.136** - 317 434

S_Khorgo 0.956** 0.943** 0.944** 0.425** 0.437** - 254

Min_Rudan 0.972** 0.954** 0.953** 0.714** 0.647** 0.886** -

** = highly significant (p < 0.001), * = significant (p < 0.05)