New genetic analyses of cichlids in Lake Victoria highlight several candidate genes that may drive adaptive radiation and provide evidence for decisive selective events that cause particular genetic ...

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Scientists show the extraordinary diversity of cichlid fish in Africa’s Lake Victoria was made possible by ‘genetic recycling’ - repeated cycles of new species appearing and rapidly adapting to ...

Lake Victoria cichlids are known to use differing chromophore mixtures (van d er Meer and Bowmaker, 1995). However, the new study of Terai et al (2002) is one of the first to examine the variability ...