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 ...

A pair of researchers at Central Michigan University has found that cichlid fish that brood their young in their mouths eat up to 40% of their offspring. For their paper published in the journal ...

Beau Alward, University of Houston assistant professor of psychology, who holds a joint appointment in biology and biochemistry and is director of the Social Neuroscience Lab, has received the Beckman ...

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 from the ...

Beau Alward, University of Houston assistant professor of psychology, who holds a joint appointment in biology and biochemistry and is director of the Social Neuroscience Lab, has received the Beckman ...

Gene transfer inhibition in the African cichlids fish might explain the evolution of new species, a study in Nature Ecology & Evolution, has found. Martin Genner, a professor of Ecology, Population ...

Cichlids are a striking type of freshwater fish with over 500 species. They're usually found in warmer regions and in various bodies of water, including ponds, rivers, lakes, and streams. Most species ...

Variations in water quality can impact the development of the visual system of one species of African fish, suggests a new study. Variations in water quality can impact the development of the visual ...

Dieleman, Jorunn, Bocxlaer, Bert Van, Manntschke, Claudia, Nyingi, Dorothy Wanja, Adriaens, Dominique, and Verschuren, Dirk. 2015. "Tracing functional adaptation in ...

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 ...