Work On Fish Evolution Highlighted By UW

Work On Fish Evolution Highlighted By UW

Dr. Katie Wagner "and fellow researchers from Switzerland�s University of Bern and the Swiss Federal Institute of Aquatic Science and Technology have demonstrated for the first time that the rapid evolution of Lake Victoria cichlids -- brightly colored, perch-like fish -- was facilitated by earlier hybridization between two distantly related cichlid species from the Upper Nile and Congo drainage systems."

Different species of fish, called cichlids, swim in East Africa�s Lake Victoria.
More than 700 cichlid species have evolved in the Lake Victoria region
over the past 150,000 years. (Florian Moser Photo)

This research was published in the journal Nature Communications
DOI: 10.1038/ncomms14363

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