Migration rates among nine populations of the endemic Lake Malawi cichlid Melanochromis
auratus were estimated along a 42‐km stretch of habitat in the southern end of the lake …

Abstract Within the past two million years, more than 450 species of haplochromine cichlids
have diverged from a single common ancestor in Lake Malawi. Several factors have been …

Aim Current estimates of species richness within rapidly evolving species flocks are often
highly dependent on the species status of allopatric populations that differ in phenotypic …

Abstract In Lake Malawi cichlids, comparisons of feeding morphology have typically been
performed at the genus level, with little emphasis on interspecific comparisons. Variation in …

1. The rocky habitat communities of Lake Malawi contain a high diversity of ecologically
similar, predominantly herbivorous, cichlid fish species. How so many species can coexist is …

Three sympatrically occurring members of a cichlid fish species complex from Lake Malawi
have previously been reported to show assortative mating in the field. Offspring from three …

Rapidly evolving systems offer the chance to observe genetic and phenotypic change in real
time. We exploit a well‐characterized introduction of cichlid fish into Lake Malawi National …

The radiation of cichlid fishes in the African great lakes is often described as adaptive,
because, at a superficial level, cichlid fishes seem adapted to the ecological niches they …

Species richness and geographical phenotypic variation in East African lacustrine cichlids
are often correlated with ecological specializations and limited dispersal. This study …

Background It is hypothesized that one of the mechanisms promoting diversification in
cichlid fishes in the African Great Lakes has been the well-documented pattern of philopatry …