Freshwater fish are an ‘aquatic version of the canary in the coalmine’ for Africa’s rivers, lakes and wetlands, a new report ...

A new study that looked at gut length variation between cichlid fish species found that some of the genetic loci for the ...

Here, we confirm the genetic basis of gut length variation among recently evolved Lake Malawi cichlid fish species with different dietary adaptations. We then produce interspecific, intertrophic-level ...

Scientists studying Lake Malawi cichlids discovered that these fish can remember the locations of food sources for weeks or even months after a single exposure. In aquarium settings, this spatial ...

In Malawi cichlids, the supergenes seem to play several important roles. Although cichlid species can still interbreed, the inversions help keep species separate by preventing their genes from ...

Using several hundreds of samples and cutting-edge genomic methods, including BioNano, PacBio, HiFi, and advanced bioinformatic pipelines, the authors identify six large chromosomal inversions ...

Over the years, aquarists and biologists have marveled at the dramatically thick lips of several African cichlid species. These unique fish, found in lakes Victoria, Malawi, and Tanganyika, have ...

For certain fishes, evolution is easy. After tracking the evolution of teeth in cichlid fishes from Africa, a team of researchers has found that these fishes have developed the ability to evolve ...

Identification of six large inversions from 11 species of Lake Malawi cichlids Armed with the improved reference, we used the Bionano system to test eight different species of Lake Malawi cichlids ...

Scuba divers visited several spots at Lake Malawi in 2016 to search for cichlid fish, George Turner wrote in a study published Dec. 10 in the peer-reviewed Journal of Fish Biology.