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 has ...
Researchers have found that male African cichlids vocalize during courtship, and that females' sensitivity to these sounds increases when they are ready to mate. African cichlids enjoy an alien, ...
Most fish rely primarily on their vision to find prey to feed upon, but a University of Rhode Island biologist and her colleagues have demonstrated that a group of African cichlids feeds by using its ...
Scientists at the Shedd Aquarium have been successful in breeding a previously undiscovered species of fish that might help save Africa`s largest lake, Shedd officials announced last week. The fish ...
Quebec City, Canada - An international team of scientists from Canada (Université Laval), the U.K. (University of Hull, Cardiff University) and Spain (Doòana Biological Station), have discovered that ...
About this issue Abstract Phylogenetic analyses based on mitochondrial (mt) DNA have indicated that the cichlid species flock of the Lake Victoria region is derived from a single ancestral species ...
Scuba divers found some “large”-eyed lake creatures off the coast of Malawi and discovered two new species, a study said and photos show. Photo from Getty / iStockphoto Plunging into a large lake in ...
Vol. 145, No. 10, Bioactive Water-Borne Chemicals: Pheromones and Welfare Indicators: The 'Faro Workshop' (Oct., 2008), pp. 1367-1388 (22 pages) We previously investigated the androgen responsiveness ...