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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Tempo and mode of diversification of lake Tanganyika cichlid fishes. [PDF]
PLoS ONE, 2008 BackgroundUnderstanding the causes of disparities in species diversity across taxonomic groups and regions is a fundamental aim in evolutionary biology.
Julia J Day +2 more
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Climate warming reduces fish production and benthic habitat in Lake Tanganyika, one of the most biodiverse freshwater ecosystems [PDF]
Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America, 2016 Peter W Swarzenski, , Michael Mcglue
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Nonapeptide molecular evolution during the adaptive radiation of Tanganyika cichlids. [PDF]
J NeuroendocrinolAbstract Oxytocin (OT) and vasotocin (VT) are evolutionarily conserved nonapeptides that regulate a wide range of physiological and behavioral processes in vertebrates. Their receptor families have undergone gene duplications that facilitated functional diversification throughout vertebrate evolution.
Sorigue P, Salzburger W, Oliveira RF.
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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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New haplochromine cichlid from the upper Miocene (9–10 MYA) of Central Kenya
BMC Evolutionary Biology, 2020 Background The diversification process known as the Lake Tanganyika Radiation has given rise to the most speciose clade of African cichlids. Almost all cichlid species found in the lakes Tanganyika, Malawi and Victoria, comprising a total of 12–16 tribes,
Melanie Altner +2 more
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Unusual massive phytoplankton bloom in the oligotrophic Lake Tanganyika [PDF]
Plant Ecology and Evolution, 2021 Background and aims – Massive algae growth resulting in a phytoplankton bloom is a very rare event in the meromictic and oligotrophic Lake Tanganyika. Such a bloom was observed in the north of the lake in September 2018. Phytoplankton species composition
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BMC Evolutionary Biology, 2019 Background Cichlids are a prime model system in evolutionary research and several of the most prominent examples of adaptive radiations are found in the East African Lakes Tanganyika, Malawi and Victoria, all part of the East African cichlid radiation ...
Frederic Dieter Benedikt Schedel +2 more
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Presence of Acapoeta tanganicae (Actinopterygii: Cypriniformes: Cyprinidae ) within the Lake Rukwa catchment supports historic riverine connectivity with Lake Tanganyika [PDF]
Acta Ichthyologica et Piscatoria, 2015 Freshwater fish biogeography can provide insight into past connectivity of river systems. Here we report the first discovery of the large-bodied cyprinid Acapoeta tanganicae (Boulenger, 1900) inside the Lake Rukwa catchment.
M.J. Genner +4 more
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Journal of Hydrology: Regional Studies, 2022 Study region: East Africa (EA), lake basins (Tana, Abaya-Chamo, Turkana, Victoria, and Tanganyika), 6472,404 km2 of total area. Study focus: Total water storage change (TWSC) exposes serious challenges in sustainable water resources management and ...
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