The question of how genetic variation translates into organismal diversity has puzzled
biologists for decades. Despite recent advances in evolutionary and developmental …

Cichlids have undergone extensive evolutionary modifications of their feeding apparatus,
making them an ideal model to study the factors that underlie craniofacial diversity. Recent …

We described the developmental stages for the embryonic, larval and early juvenile periods
of Nile tilapia Oreochromis niloticus to elucidate sequential events of craniofacial …

Divergent natural selection acting on ecological traits, which also affect mate choice, is a key
element of ecological speciation theory, but has not previously been demonstrated at the …

The endemic cichlid fishes in Lake Victoria are a model system for speciation through
adaptive radiation. Although the evolution of the sex-determination system may also play a …

Cichlid fishes compose an astonishingly large number of species and formed species flocks
in record-breaking time. To facilitate efficient genome scans and comparisons of cichlid …

Half-smooth tongue sole (Cynoglossus semilaevis) is an increasingly important aquaculture
species in China. It is also a tractable model to study sex chromosome evolution and to …

Background The availability of a large number of recently sequenced vertebrate genomes
opens new avenues to integrate cytogenetics and genomics in comparative and …

Fish use olfaction to sense a variety of nonvolatile chemical signals in water. However, the
evolutionary importance of olfaction in species-rich cichlids is controversial. Here, we …

Background The cichlid fishes in general, and the exceptionally diverse East African
haplochromine cichlids in particular, are famous examples of adaptive radiation and …