Sentences with phrase «related cichlid»
In a study published in Nature Communications, they demonstrate for the first time that this rapid evolution was facilitated by earlier hybridization between two distantly related cichlid species from the Upper Nile and Congo drainage systems.
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Moreover, the results are consistent with molecular genetic data relating to the ongoing diversification of the family in the Great Lakes region of East Africa, which have indicated that hybridization between members of related species or even genera has played a major role in cichlid speciation.
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Konstanz evolutionary biologists working with Prof. Axel Meyer have now described parallel evolution of two closely related, but geographically isolated populations of cichlid fish in Nicaraguan crater lakes.