Just published 'Dietary Differentiation Between Sympatric #Ecotypes of #Astatotilapia calliptera From Lake Masoko, #Tanzania Revealed by Metabarcoding'! bit.ly/3GTRKjI Great to be part of this work led by Dr Kirthana Pillay (FSBI PhD)! Nostalgic, given that my MSci thesis looked at these #cichlids!

"To explore the origins of the Lake #Malawi radiation in greater detail, we obtained 24 additional #Astatotilapia whole-genome sequences from outside Lake Malawi"

#cichlids #phylogeny

Malinsky et al. 2018 feeds.nature.com/~r/natecolev... (OA)

Noise during mouthbrooding impairs maternal care behaviours and juvenile development and alters brain transcriptomes in the African #cichlid #fish #Astatotilapia burtoni.



#aquarium #fishkeeping #fishbehaviour