Chromosome differentiation patterns during cichlid fish
evolution 1 UNESP - Universidade Estadual Paulista, Instituto de
Biociências, Departamento de Morfologia, Botucatu, SP, Brazil 2
UFMT - Universidade Federal de Mato Grosso, Instituto
Universitário do Araguaia, Pontal do Araguaia, MT, Brazil 3
Universidad de Oriente, Escuela de Ciencias Aplicadas del Mar,
Boca de Rio, Venezuela 4 University of Maryland, Department of
Biology, College Park, MD 20742 USA BMC Genetics 2010, 11:50
doi:10.1186/1471-2156-11-50Published: 15 June 2010 Cichlid
fishes have been the subject of increasing scientific interest
because of their rapid adaptive radiation which has led to an
extensive ecological diversity and their enormous importance to
tropical and subtropical aquaculture. To increase our
understanding of chromosome evolution among cichlid species,
karyotypes of one Asian, 22 African, and 30 South American
cichlid species were investigated, and chromosomal data of the
family was reviewed. Although there is extensive vari