Nile perch invasion triggered genetic bottlenecks in Lake Victoria's endemic cichlids. ScienceDaily. Retrieved June 2, 2025 from www.sciencedaily.com / releases / 2024 / 06 / 240617173637.htm.

Nile perch invasion triggered genetic bottlenecks in Lake Victoria's endemic cichlids The introduction of the Nile perch to Africa’s largest lake impacted the genomic structure of multiple local ...

One tragic example is the introduction of the Nile perch, a large freshwater fish found in waterbodies in Africa, into Africa's largest lake—Lake Victoria. Brought to Lake Victoria in the 1950s to ...

In the 1950s, the Nile Perch was introduced into Lake Victoria to meet commercial demands for its meat. However, by the 1990s, the predator had driven more than 200 species of endemic ...

Fishing for Answers: The Genetic Impact of the Nile Perch Invasion in Lake Victoria (IMAGE) Tokyo Institute of Technology ...

Half a century on, invasion ecology has progressed well-beyond the scope of Elton's book. Several topics that are now crucial to our current understanding were overlooked or only touched on by Elton.

This is not the first case of an introduced fish doing away with the natives. Nile perch, Lates niloticus, released into Lake Victoria in Africa caused the presumed extinction of 250 endemic cichlid ...

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