3 datasets found

With its more than 500 young and ecologically diverse species, the Lake Malawi cichlid adaptive radiation provides a great system to study the evolution of biodiversity and...

Lake Malawi cichlid fish went through a recent adaptive radiation event, which generated more than 500 closely related species in less than 200,000 years. With similar genomic...

Decoupling of the upper jaw bones - jaw kinesis - is a distinctive feature of the ray-finned fishes, but it is not clear how the innovation is related to the extraordinary...