Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America, Vol. 100, No. 24 (Nov. 25, 2003), pp. 14074-14079 (6 pages) Repeated evolution of the same phenotypic difference during ...

This study investigated fine-scale population substructuring in an apparently monogamous, biparental mouth-brooding cichlid. Microsatellite allele frequencies were determined at four polymorphic loci ...

This is an old article, reposted from the original WordPress incarnation of Not Exactly Rocket Science. I’m on holiday for the moment, but you can expect a few new pieces here and there (as well as ...

On September 5, 65-year-old James Baxter stepped into the Indian Ocean to mark the end of his 119-day journey from Namibia to ...

Periods of deep, clear water in Lake Malawi over the past 800,000 years coincide with bursts of species diversification, researchers show in a new report. Africa's Lake Malawi is home to hundreds of ...

Figure 1: Representative rock-dwelling cichlid species from Lake Malawi. Figure 2: The phenotypically derived species has higher endogenous levels of Wnt signalling during craniofacial development.

Despite the dramatic difference between day and nightlife, how fish exploit different times of day has not been studied systematically. Scientists explored alterations in the circadian timing of ...

Scuba divers found some “large”-eyed lake creatures off the coast of Malawi and discovered two new species, a study said and photos show. Photo from Getty / iStockphoto Plunging into a large lake in ...