Science news articles about 'cichlid fish'

LONDON (Reuters) - Some colorful cichlid fish in Africa's Lake Victoria formed a new species by adapting their vision, showing that geographical isolation is not essential ...

... has remained a mystery. The thousands of closely related cichlid fishes in the lakes of East Africa turn out ... this color pattern can help disguise female fish and help them avoid predation. However ...

... an egg. But now a research team at Uppsala University can demonstrate that unfaithful females of the cichlid fish species influence the males’ sperms. Increased competition leads to both faster and ...

... incredibly rapid diversification." To put these results in perspective, only a few vertebrates in the world, such as the cichlid fishes found in lakes of the African Rift Valley, exceed this rate of ...

... his fruit flies, and scientists today have cichlid fishes to trace the biological origins of jaws ... diversity of dentitions among more than 1,000 cichlid species. Most species are endemic to East Africa ...