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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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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

Explore the incredible story of Africa’s $5 billion megadam project and its monumental impact on the Nile River. This engineering marvel, known as the Grand Ethiopian Renaissance Dam (GERD), has ...

Lake Victoria, which came under the spotlight in 2004 by the documentary 'Darwin's nightmare', is not only suffering from the introduction and commercialization of the Nile perch: A study has ...

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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 ...

A now-extinct stretch of the Nile once flowed near Egypt’s Great Pyramid and likely played a key role in the construction of ancient monuments, according to new research.