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Scientists from Institute of Science Tokyo have discovered the role of wingless-related integration site signaling pathway in regulating lip hypertrophy in cichlids of East African Great Lakes. The ...

In the second-largest lake in Africa, fish evolution is taking place at an explosive rate. Why? Scientists are diving into the question Ben Crair Lake Malawi formed in a valley where the African ...

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 ...

Figure 1: The serranochromine cichlids of southern Africa are a flock of closely related species that probably arose in Lake paleo-Makgadikgadi. Figure 2: Geographic distribution of species richness ...