The Behavior, Ecology and Evolution of Cichlid Fishes

Maria E. Abate is an assistant professor in the Department of Biology at Simmons University in Boston, Massachusetts, USA. David L. G. Noakes is late professor in the Fisheries and Wildlife Department at Oregon State University, Corvallis, Oregon, USA.

Chance, Choice and Cichlids.- Frontiers in Cichlid Research: A History of Scientific Advancement.- Ecological Opportunity, Genetic Variation, and the Origins of African Cichlid Radiations.- Evolution in the Fast Lane: Diversity, Ecology, and Speciation of Cichlids in the lower Congo River.- Neotropical Riverine Cichlids: Adaptive Radiation and Macroevolution at Continental Scales.- Sympatric and Allopatric Diversification in the Adaptive Radiation of Midas Cichlids in Nicaraguan Lakes.- The Consequences of Anthropogenic Stressors on Cichlid Fish Communities: Revisiting Lakes Victoria, Kyoga, and Nabugabo.- Rapid Evolutionary Responses in Cichlids: Genetics of Adaptation, Morphology and Taxonomic Implications.- Identifying and Conserving Tilapiine Cichlid Species in the 21st Century.- Introduced Cichlids in the Americas: Distribution Patterns, Invasion Ecology, and Impacts.- The Evolutionary Ecology of Cichlid Vision.- The Mechanosensory Lateral Line System of Cichlid Fishes: From Anatomy to Behavior.- Sonic Cichlids.- The Evolution of Enhanced Cichlid Hearing: Functional Morphology and the Role of Ecoacoustical Factors.- Parental Care in Cichlid Fishes.- Cichlids as a model system for studying social behaviour and evolution.- Integrative Neurobiology of Social Behavior in Cichlid Fish.- Respiratory Ecology of Cichlids.- Feeding Ecology of Lake Tanganyika Cichlids.- Patterns of Trophic Evolution: Integration and Modularity of the Cichlid Skull.- An Evo-devo View of Post-genomic African Cichlid Biology: Enhanced Models for Evolution and Biomedicine.