The new study, done in collaboration with scientists at Eawag Swiss Federal Institute for Aquatic Sciences and Georgia Institute of Technology, in addition to more than 70 scientists from the international
cichlid research community, appears in the September 3 advance online edition of Nature.
The research paper, done in collaboration with scientists at the Broad Institute, Eawag Swiss Federal Institute for Aquatic Sciences and Georgia Institute of Technology, in addition to international scientists in
the cichlid research community, appears in the September, advance online edition of Nature.
, in addition to international scientists in
the cichlid research community, appears in the September, advance online edition of Nature.
Not exact matches
«I don't necessarily care what the taxonomic rank would be of the units I'm studying,» says Hey, whose current
research involves
cichlid fish in Lake Malawi.
Cichlids are central to evolutionary
research.
This was the conclusion of
research conducted by Eawag and Bern University scientists on
cichlid species in Lake Victoria, which suffered mass extinction following the introduction of the fish - eating Nile perch in the 1950s.
«The Nile perch, preying on
cichlids, did indeed decimate stocks of these species in Lake Victoria,» says Matt McGee, who studied the ecology and evolution of fish - eating
cichlids for his doctoral thesis at the University of California, Davis, and is now carrying out
research on invasive fish species with Ole Seehausen at Eawag and Bern University.
Ole Seehausen, senior author and Head of Fish Ecology and Evolution at Eawag Aquatic
Research, said: «African
cichlid fish stand out amongst fish by their incredible richness of species that evolved without geographical isolation and that now coexist within individual lakes.