Monogeneans from Catfishes in Lake Tanganyika. II: New Infection Site, New Record, and Additional Details on the Morphology of the Male Copulatory Organ of Gyrodactylus transvaalensis Prudhoe and Hussey, 1977 [PDF]
Pathogens, 2023 The ichthyofauna of Lake Tanganyika consists of 12 families of fish of which five belong to Siluriformes (catfishes). Studies on Siluriformes and their parasites in this lake are very fragmentary.
Archimède Mushagalusa Mulega +8 more
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Complete mitochondrial genomes and updated divergence time of the two freshwater clupeids endemic to Lake Tanganyika (Africa) suggest intralacustrine speciation [PDF]
BMC Ecology and Evolution, 2022 Background The hydrogeological history of Lake Tanganyika paints a complex image of several colonization and adaptive radiation events. The initial basin was formed around 9–12 million years ago (MYA) from the predecessor of the Malagarasi–Congo River ...
Leona J. M. Milec +8 more
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Genomic Microevolution of Vibrio cholerae O1, Lake Tanganyika Basin, Africa [PDF]
Emerging Infectious Diseases, 2023 Africa’s Lake Tanganyika basin is a cholera hotspot. During 2001–2020, Vibrio cholerae O1 isolates obtained from the Democratic Republic of the Congo side of the lake belonged to 2 of the 5 clades of the AFR10 sublineage.
Yaovi M.G. Hounmanou +17 more
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Back to Tanganyika: a case of recent trans-species-flock dispersal in East African haplochromine cichlid fishes [PDF]
Royal Society Open Science, 2015 The species flocks of cichlid fishes in the East African Great Lakes are the largest vertebrate adaptive radiations in the world and illustrious textbook examples of convergent evolution between independent species assemblages.
Britta S. Meyer +6 more
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Lacustrine mollusc radiations in the Lake Malawi Basin: experiments in a natural laboratory for evolution [PDF]
Biogeosciences, 2013 In terminal Pliocene–early Pleistocene times, part of the Malawi Basin was occupied by paleo-lake Chiwondo. Molluscan biostratigraphy situates this freshwater lake either in the East African wet phase between 2.7–2.4 Ma or that of 2.0–1.8 Ma.
D. Van Damme, A. Gautier
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Species of Ergasilus von Nordmann, 1832 (Copepoda: Ergasilidae) from cichlid fishes in Lake Tanganyika [PDF]
Parasitology, 2023 Ergasilus (von Nordmann, 1832) (Ergasilidae) is a species-rich group of parasitic copepods with a wide distribution in freshwater, marine and brackish environments. Up to now, 9 species of Ergasilus are known from cichlid fishes in Africa. In this study,
Robert Míč +2 more
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Contrasting Host-Parasite Population Structure: Morphology and Mitogenomics of a Parasitic Flatworm on Pelagic Deepwater Cichlid Fishes from Lake Tanganyika [PDF]
Biology, 2021 Little phylogeographic structure is presumed for highly mobile species in pelagic zones. Lake Tanganyika is a unique ecosystem with a speciose and largely endemic fauna famous for its remarkable evolutionary history.
Nikol Kmentová +7 more
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Resurgence of cholera on the shores of Lake Tanganyika: security instability in eastern Democratic Republic of Congo as an aggravating factor and call to action [PDF]
Conflict and HealthIntroduction The Great Lakes region in eastern Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC), currently affected by armed conflict, remains the ecological niche of Vibrio cholerae.
Fabien Imani Shangalume +6 more
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Anoxic chlorophyll maximum enhances local organic matter remineralization and nitrogen loss in Lake Tanganyika [PDF]
Nature Communications, 2021 Enigmatic blooms of phytoplankton in aquatic oxygen-deficient zones could exacerbate depletion of nitrogen. Here the authors perform stable isotope experiments on the oxygen-deficient waters of Lake Tanganyika in Africa, finding that blooms drive down ...
Cameron M. Callbeck +4 more
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A revision of the genus Astatoreochromis (Teleostei, Cichlidae), East–Africa [PDF]
European Journal of Taxonomy, 2013 A taxonomic revision of the cichlid genus Astatoreochromis is presented. Eighteen meristic and 23 morphometric measurements were taken on 185 individuals, including type specimens.
Jos Snoeks +2 more
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