Africa's Lake Victoria is home to one of evolution's greatest experiments. In its waters, what began as a single lineage belonging to the cichlid family of fishes has since given rise to a dazzling ...

Evolutionary biologists describe a new gene in the Central American Midas cichlid fish and identify a variant caused by a 'jumping gene' (transposon). This variant of the 'goldentouch gene' is most ...

African cichlid fish evolved in calm, clearwater lakes saturated with sunlight, and are known for their incredible visual system, which relies on a diverse array of visual pigment proteins called ...

The Neotropical cichlids represent one of the most diverse and ecologically significant lineages of freshwater fishes, exhibiting an extraordinary range of morphological, behavioural and genomic ...

SPRINGFIELD –The hook for this national convention is fish: Members of The American Cichlid Association will be gathering for the first time in New England in Springfield July 30 to Aug. 2. The ...

Sometimes individuals of the same species differ greatly in their shape or colouration. Scientifically, this phenomenon is referred to as "polymorphism". The 13 fish species that belong to the Central ...