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Name - Melanochromis auratus

Name Details

Life Sciences Identifier (LSID)

urn:lsid:organismnames.com:name:255464 [metadata]

Reported Taxonomic Ranks

Species

Reported Taxonomic Hierarchies

Animalia (Kingdom)
Chordata (Phylum)
Vertebrata (Subphylum)
Pisces (Group)
Osteichthyes (Group)
Perciformes (Order)
Cichlidae (Family)

References

Recent Publications

  • Anterior-posterior gene expression differences in three Lake Malawi cichlid fishes with variation in body stripe orientation.
  • Genome of the Malawi golden cichlid fish (Melanochromis auratus) reveals exon loss of oca2 in an amelanistic morph.
  • Habitat light sets the boundaries for the rapid evolution of cichlid fish vision, while sexual selection can tune it within those limits.
  • Neural innervation as a potential trigger of morphological color change and sexual dimorphism in cichlid fish.
  • More non-native fish species than natives, and an invasion of Malawi cichlids, in ancient Lake Poso, Sulawesi, Indonesia.

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