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AmNat - Replicated Functional Evolution in Cichlid Adaptive Radiations

September 6, 2024 | Michelle Achermann

Our postdoc Alexus has recently published a new paper in American Naturalist with her colleagues from University of California studying the functional and morphological diversification in 300 species of cichlid fishes from the East African Great Lakes and the Neotropics. 

While they do find similarities between the different radiations with early bursts, they also find differences such as a much faster rate of functional evolution in Lake Victoria cichlids compared to the other radiations.

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