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Adaptive Diversification of the Lateral Line System during Cichlid Fish Radiation.
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- Genetic and Developmental Divergence in the Neural Crest Program between Cichlid Fish Species.Molecular biology and evolution · 2024Article
- The Silverjaw Minnow, Ericymba buccata: An Extraordinary Lateral Line System and its Contribution to Prey Detection.Integrative and comparative biology · 2024Article
- Genetic and developmental divergence in the neural crest programme between cichlid fish species.bioRxiv : the preprint server for biology · 2024Article
- Lateral line system diversification during the early stages of ecological speciation in cichlid fish.BMC ecology and evolution · 2024Article
- Structural and functional evolution of the mechanosensory lateral line system of fishesa).The Journal of the Acoustical Society of America · 2023Article
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- East African cichlid fishes.EvoDevo · 2023Review
- Lateral line morphology, sensory perception and collective behaviour in African cichlid fish.Royal Society open science · 2023Article
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- Localization of Neurotrophin Specific Trk Receptors in Mechanosensory Systems of Killifish (International journal of molecular sciences · 2021Article
- Diversity in rest-activity patterns among Lake Malawi cichlid fishes suggests a novel axis of habitat partitioning.The Journal of experimental biology · 2021Article
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Abstract
The mechanosensory lateral line system is used by fishes to sense hydrodynamic stimuli in their environment. It provides information about flow regimes, proximity to substrate, and the presence and identity of prey and predators and represents a means of receiving communication signals from other fish. Thus we may expect lateral line system structures to be under strong divergent selection during adaptive radiation. Here, we used X-ray micro-computed tomography scans to quantify variation in cranial lateral line canal morphology within the adaptive radiation of Lake Malawi cichlids. We report that cranial lateral line canal morphology is strongly correlated with diet and other aspects of craniofacial morphology, including the shape of oral jaws. These results indicate an adaptive role for the lateral line system in prey detection and suggest that diversification of this system has taken an important role in the spectacular evolution of Lake Malawi's cichlid fish diversity.
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