Archive for the cateroy Tanganyika

  
May
01

Intro to Tanganyika Lake cichlid fishes

Cichlid fishes of the oldest of the great Lake Tanganyika: African rift lakes, represent a paradigm example of unprecedented diversity in morphology, behavior, and ecology that occurred over a geologically-short period of time. Lake Tanganyika cichlids display a complexity of differences in external shape and coloration, breeding systems, parental care patterns, and trophic [...]

by site admin on May 1st, 2004 in Tanganyika0 Comments »
May
01

Simulated specialization cichlid evolution in Lake Tanganyika

The current phylogenetic hypothesis for the endemic Lake Tanganyika cichlid fishes of the tribe Eretmodini is based solely on morphology and suggests that more complex trophic morphologies derived only once from a less specialized ancestral condition. A molecular phylogeny of eretmodine cichlids based on partial mitochondrial DNA cytochrome b and control-region sequences was used to [...]

by site admin on May 1st, 2004 in Tanganyika2 Comments »