Cichlids are one of the largest and strangest groups of vertebrate fish — fish with backbones — on Earth. They’re popular as pets and farmed in aquaculture, and scientists have been studying them ...
A Case Western Reserve University scientist has played the lead role in identifying an invasive species related to one already threatening other fish in the waters of the southern United States. That ...
Cichlid fishes exhibit differing degrees of curiosity. The cause for this lies in their genes, as reported by researchers from the University of Basel in the journal Science. This trait influences the ...
The cichlids of Lake Tanganyika in Africa are highly diverse -- including with regard to sex chromosomes. These have changed extremely frequently in the course of the evolution of these fish and, ...
The cichlid fishes of Lake Malawi are famously diverse. However, phylogenetic and population genetic studies of their history have been difficult because of the great amount of genetic variation that ...
One decision in the 1950s transformed Lake Victoria’s ecosystem. The Nile perch was introduced into Lake Victoria in Africa in an effort to boost commercial fishing by creating larger catches for the ...
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 ...
There are concerned, overprotective parents, and then there are cichlid fish. After a male cichlid fertilizes the female’s eggs, she holds her entire brood of embryos inside her mouth for two weeks ...
Some animal parents go to extraordinary lengths to shield their young from predators, disease, and dangerous currents.
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