Cichlids are one of the largest and strangest groups of vertebrate fish — fish with backbones — on Earth. They’re popular as pets and farmed in aquaculture, and scientists have been studying them ...

Cichlid fishes have undergone a mind-boggling degree of speciation. New research is revealing features of their genomes that primed them to diversify so spectacularly Africa's Lake Victoria is home to ...

Figure 1: The adaptive radiation of African cichlid fish. Exceptional phenotypic variation, even among closely related species, makes cichlids different from most other fish groups, including those ...