Diet disparity among sympatric herbivorous cichlids in the same ecomorphs in Lake Tanganyika: amplicon pyrosequences on algal farms and stomach contents

BACKGROUND: Lake Tanganyika, an ancient lake in the Great Rift Valley, is famous for the adaptive radiation of cichlids. Five tribes of the Cichlidae family have acquired herbivory, with five ecomorphs: grazers, browsers, scrapers, biters and scoopers. Sixteen species of the herbivorous cichlids coe...

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Autores principales: Hata, Hiroki, Tanabe, Akifumi S, Yamamoto, Satoshi, Toju, Hirokazu, Kohda, Masanori, Hori, Michio
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: BioMed Central 2014
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Research Article
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4228161/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/25359595
http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/s12915-014-0090-4

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https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4228161/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/25359595
http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/s12915-014-0090-4

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