Fish can change their teeth quickly, which speeds up their evolution. Cichlids in African lakes show the fastest ...

Male cichlids have a strict ... and placed six females and two males in each experimental compartment, allowing each group of fish to interact freely and to visually interact with the neighboring ...

The cichlid fish of Africa's Great Lakes have formed new species more rapidly than any other group of vertebrates. A new study shows that the ease with which these fish can develop a biological ...

For the largest group of vertebrates ... African Cichlidae, also known as cichlids, the most diverse and textbook example of species diversification to fill different niches (a phenomenon known ...

The cichlid fishes of Africa's great lakes are a particularly large and diverse group, adapted to a wide variety of habitats and food sources in the lakes. They form new species more readily than ...