Our data support the known chromosomal linkage between orange blotch color and ZW ... contributing to sex determination in Malawi cichlids. The sex of ZW individuals is strongly influenced ...

These were the rock-dwelling haplochromines, Lake Malawi’s most famous cichlid group (known as mbuna ... seek out males with extremely specific color patterns. Females of Labeotropheus ...

Malawi cichlids are popular around the world because they add so much life and color to tropical freshwater aquariums everywhere. Nothing compares to the wild patterns and intense colors of these ...

Orange-blotch, a sex-linked intraspecific colour polymorphism that features in several models of speciation, is due to a single dominant gene in a Lake Malawi cichlid. Marked variation in visual ...

Researchers with the Malawi Cichlid Genomic Diversity Survey hoped ... males of both new species likely change color while “courting,” the study said. Their “full breeding dress” may ...