Using several hundreds of samples and cutting-edge genomic methods, including BioNano, PacBio, HiFi, and advanced bioinformatic pipelines, the authors identify six large chromosomal inversions ...

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Chin was involved in a reintroduction effort for a cichlid species in Lake Malawi in 2019, but she says logistical obstacles have meant that no one has returned to see if the population survived.

Indeed, African cichlids are famous for their rapid speciation, as scientists have described some 1,700 species and are continuing to discover more. (Of these, many are found only in a single lake, ...

To study the role of large inversions in the massive evolutionary radiation of Lake Malawi cichlids, we used long-read technologies to identify four single and two tandem inversions that span half of ...

In a river of southern Africa, a “large”-mouthed creature swam along the rocks looking for its next meal. Something about the “slender” animal caught the attention of snorkelers — and for good reason.

Lake Tanganyika’s water feeds the Lufubu River, where the species was found. A Telmatochromis salzburgeri, or Salzburg’s cichlid ... Republic of the Congo, Malawi, Mozambique, Namibia ...

Scuba divers visited several spots at Lake Malawi in 2016 to search for cichlid fish, George Turner wrote in a study published Dec. 10 in the peer-reviewed Journal of Fish Biology. The lake is ...