The endemic cichlid fishes of Lakes Malawi, Tanganyika and Victoria are textbook examples
of explosive speciation and adaptive radiation, and their study promises to yield important …

Ancient lakes are often unusually species rich, mostly as a result of radiation and species-
flock formation having taken place in only one or a few of many taxa present. Understanding …

It has been estimated that Lake Malawi, Africa, contains 500–650 endemic species of cichlid
fishes, the largest number of vertebrate species endemic to any comparable sized area on …

Through adaptive radiation, ancestral species rapidly diversify into multiple species with
different ecological adaptations. The haplochromine cichlid fishes of the East African Great …

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 …

Lake Tanganyika, the oldest of the East African Great Lakes, harbors the ecologically,
morphologically, and behaviorally most complex of all assemblages of cichlid fishes …

Rapid speciation can occur on ecological time scales and interfere with ecological
processes, resulting in species distribution patterns that are difficult to reconcile with …

Mate choice may play an important role in animal speciation. The haplochromine cichlids of
Lake Victoria are suitable to test this hypothesis. Diversity in ecology, coloration and …

Mechanisms behind the explosive radiation of over 500 cichlid fish species from a single
founding population in Lake Malawi during the last 700 000 years are poorly understood …

The growing body of empirical evidence for sympatric speciation has been complemented
by recent theoretical treatments that have identified evolutionary conditions conducive to …