Lake Tanganyika in Africa is a true hotspot of organismal diversity. Approximately 240 species of cichlid fishes have evolved in this lake in less than 10 million years. A research team has ...

Quebec City, Canada - An international team of scientists from Canada (Université Laval), the U.K. (University of Hull, Cardiff University) and Spain (Doòana Biological Station), have discovered that ...

African cichlid fish evolved in calm, clearwater lakes saturated with sunlight, and are known for their incredible visual system, which relies on a diverse array of visual pigment proteins called ...

About this issue Abstract Phylogenetic analyses based on mitochondrial (mt) DNA have indicated that the cichlid species flock of the Lake Victoria region is derived from a single ancestral species ...

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 ...

Beau Alward, University of Houston assistant professor of psychology, who holds a joint appointment in biology and biochemistry and is director of the Social Neuroscience Lab, has received the Beckman ...