Lake Tanganyika in Africa is a true hotspot of organismal diversity. Approximately 240 species of cichlid fishes have evolved in this lake in less than 10 million years. A research team from the ...
In certain Lake Tanganyika cichlids breeding in empty snail shells, there are two extreme sizes of males: giants and dwarfs. Researchers have analyzed the genomes of these fish and found out how the ...
The macabre diets of scale-eating cichlids help shed light on the important role of frequency dependence in shaping genetic variation and the natural world. By Jeffrey McKinnon / MIT Press Reader ...
The unique diversity of cichlids in Africa’s oldest lake could help unlock the secrets of evolution. Baby Haplotaxodon microlepis scramble for safety in their mother’s mouth. Like many cichlid species ...
Africa’s deepest freshwater lake holds a dizzying array of animals, including hundreds of species of cichlid fish found nowhere else in the world. They crowd the waters of Lake Tanganyika, with scales ...
The brain is one of the most energetically expensive organs in the vertebrate body. Consequently, the energetic requirements of encephalization are suggested to impose considerable constraints on ...
Jimena Golcher-Benavides and Chris Horsfall, a sponsor from Tanganyika's Lake Shore lodge, delineating the diving transect to monitor cichlid fish populations. Costa Rican scientist Jimena ...
The highly diverse tropical freshwater fish family Cichlidae is sparsely represented in the fossil record. Here we describe the new cichlid †Tugenchromis pickfordi, gen. et sp. nov., from the Upper ...
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