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Project
The role of parasitism and immunogenetic adaptation in the speciation of Lake Tanganyika cichlids (Africa).
One of the by-products of natural selection is reproductive isolation. The project focuses on the role of parasitism and immunogenetic adaptation in speciation of two sympatric species of Tanganyika cichlids: Tropheus moorii and Variabilichromis moorii, showing extreme and no chromatic differentiation, respectively.
Date:1 Jan 2010 → 31 Dec 2013
Keywords:Ichthyology, Parasitology, Evolutionary biology
Disciplines:Genetics, Systems biology, Molecular and cell biology, Animal biology, Fisheries sciences