Surrounded by Great Lakes: Assessing the ichthyological diversity of Northern Zambian drainage systems

East African cichlid fishes

(2023) M. Emília Santos et al.   EvoDevo

Exceptional levels of species discovery ameliorate inferences of the biogeography and diversification of an Afrotropical catfish family

(2023) Julia J. Day et al.   MOLECULAR PHYLOGENETICS AND EVOLUTION

Checklist of the Fishes of the Kundelungu National Park (Upper Congo Basin, DR Congo): Species Diversity and Endemicity of a Poorly Known Ichthyofauna

(2023) Emmanuel Abwe et al.   Diversity-Basel

Two New Shellear Species (Gonorhynchiformes: Kneriidae), from the Luansa River (Upper Congo Basin): Hidden Diversity Revealed by Integrative Taxonomy

(2023) Lewis Ngoy Kalumba et al.   Diversity-Basel

New phylogenetic insights into the African catfish families Mochokidae and Austroglanididae

(2022) Frederic D.B. Schedel et al.   JOURNAL OF FISH BIOLOGY

DNA barcoding the Lake Edward basin: high taxonomic coverage of a tropical freshwater ichthyofauna

(2022) Eva Decru et al.   HYDROBIOLOGIA

First DNA barcode library for the ichthyofauna of the Jos Plateau (Nigeria) with comments on potential undescribed fish species

(2022) Michael Olaoluwa Popoola et al.   PeerJ

Towards the phylogenetic placement of the enigmatic African genus Prolabeops Schultz, 1941

(2022) Frederic D. B. Schedel et al.   JOURNAL OF FISH BIOLOGY

A mismatch between morphological and molecular data in lineages of Enteromius (Cypriniformes: Cyprinidae) from the Lowa basin (East Democratic Republic of the Congo: DRC) with the description of a new species

(2022) Tchalondawa Kisekelwa et al.   SYSTEMATICS AND BIODIVERSITY

An integrative taxonomic review of the Natal mountain catfish, Amphilius natalensis Boulenger 1917 (Siluriformes, Amphiliidae), with description of four new species

(2021) Daniel Nkosinathi Mazungula et al.   JOURNAL OF FISH BIOLOGY

Aquatic areas of ecological importance as inputs into surface water resource protection areas in Zambia

(2021) Nicholas A. Rivers‐Moore et al.   AQUATIC CONSERVATION-MARINE AND FRESHWATER ECOSYSTEMS

Identifying priority areas for surface water protection in data scarce regions: An integrated spatial analysis for Zambia

(2021) Bernhard Lehner et al.   AQUATIC CONSERVATION-MARINE AND FRESHWATER ECOSYSTEMS

A new species of Enteromius (Actinopterygii, Cyprinidae, Smiliogastrinae) from the Awash River, Ethiopia, and the re-establishment of E. akakianus

(2020) Gernot K. Englmaier et al.   ZooKeys

Palaeoplex gen. nov. and Lufubuchromis gen. non, two new monotypic cichlid genera (Teleostei: Cichlidae) from northern Zambia

(2020) FREDERIC D.B. SCHEDEL et al.   ZOOTAXA

Mitogenomic characterization and systematic placement of the Congo blind barb Caecobarbus geertsii (Cypriniformes: Cyprinidae)

(2020) Nele Mullens et al.   INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF BIOLOGICAL MACROMOLECULES

Unravelling the evolution of Africa’s drainage basins through a widespread freshwater fish, the African sharptooth catfish Clarias gariepinus

(2020) Maarten W. Van Steenberge et al.   JOURNAL OF BIOGEOGRAPHY

Diversity of the southern Africa Lacustricola Myers, 1924 and redescription of Lacustricola johnstoni (Günther, 1894) and Lacustricola myaposae (Boulenger, 1908) (Cyprinodontiformes, Procatopodidae)

(2020) Pedro H. N. Bragança et al.   ZooKeys

Drivers and dynamics of a massive adaptive radiation in cichlid fishes

(2020) Fabrizia Ronco et al.   NATURE

East African cichlid lineages (Teleostei: Cichlidae) might be older than their ancient host lakes: new divergence estimates for the east African cichlid radiation

(2019) Frederic Dieter Benedikt Schedel et al.   BMC EVOLUTIONARY BIOLOGY

The taxonomic diversity of the cichlid fish fauna of ancient Lake Tanganyika, East Africa

(2019) Fabrizia Ronco et al.   JOURNAL OF GREAT LAKES RESEARCH

Ancestral Hybridization Facilitated Species Diversification in the Lake Malawi Cichlid Fish Adaptive Radiation

(2019) Hannes Svardal et al.   MOLECULAR BIOLOGY AND EVOLUTION

The coincidence of ecological opportunity with hybridization explains rapid adaptive radiation in Lake Mweru cichlid fishes

(2019) Joana I. Meier et al.   Nature Communications

Evidence of hidden diversity and taxonomic conflicts in five stream fishes from the Eastern Zimbabwe Highlands freshwater ecoregion

(2018) Albert Chakona et al.   ZooKeys

The puzzling phylogeography of the haplochromine cichlid fish Astatotilapia burtoni

(2018) Gaëlle Pauquet et al.   Ecology and Evolution

Description of five new rheophilic Orthochromis species (Teleostei: Cichlidae) from the Upper Congo drainage in Zambia and the Democratic Republic of the Congo

(2018) FREDERIC DIETER BENEDIKT SCHEDEL et al.   ZOOTAXA

The introduction, spread and ecology of redclaw crayfish Cherax quadricarinatus in the Zambezi catchment

(2018) RJ Douthwaite et al.   AFRICAN JOURNAL OF AQUATIC SCIENCE

Emerging threats and persistent conservation challenges for freshwater biodiversity

(2018) Andrea J. Reid et al.   BIOLOGICAL REVIEWS

DNA barcoding fishes from the Congo and the Lower Guinean provinces: assembling a reference library for poorly inventoried fauna

(2018) Gontran Sonet et al.   Molecular Ecology Resources

Whole-genome sequences of Malawi cichlids reveal multiple radiations interconnected by gene flow

(2018) Milan Malinsky et al.   Nature Ecology & Evolution

Variation of anal fin egg-spots along an environmental gradient in a haplochromine cichlid fish

(2017) Anya Theis et al.   EVOLUTION

Species richness in the African pike genus Hepsetus : a perfect match between genetics and morphology

(2017) E. Decru et al.   JOURNAL OF FISH BIOLOGY

Morphological novelty and modest developmental truncation in Barboides , Africa's smallest vertebrates (Teleostei: Cyprinidae)

(2017) Kevin W. Conway et al.   JOURNAL OF MORPHOLOGY

UFBoot2: Improving the Ultrafast Bootstrap Approximation

(2017) Diep Thi Hoang et al.   MOLECULAR BIOLOGY AND EVOLUTION

Multi-locus phylogeny reveals instances of mitochondrial introgression and unrecognized diversity in Kenyan barbs (Cyprininae: Smiliogastrini)

(2017) Ray C. Schmidt et al.   MOLECULAR PHYLOGENETICS AND EVOLUTION

ModelFinder: fast model selection for accurate phylogenetic estimates

(2017) Subha Kalyaanamoorthy et al.   NATURE METHODS

A new species of Pseudocrenilabrus (Perciformes: Cichlidae) from Lake Mweru in the Upper Congo River System

(2017) CYPRIAN KATONGO et al.   ZOOTAXA

Past connection of the upper reaches of a Lake Tanganyika tributary with the upper Congo drainage suggested by genetic data of riverine cichlid fishes

(2017) S. Koblmüller et al.   AFRICAN ZOOLOGY

Assessment of Heavy-Metal Pollution in Sediments and Tilapia Fish Species in Kafue River of Zambia

(2016) Gezile Mbewe et al.   ARCHIVES OF ENVIRONMENTAL CONTAMINATION AND TOXICOLOGY

Review of the smiliogastrin cyprinids of the Kwilu River (Kasai Basin, central Africa), revised diagnosis forClypeobarbus(Cyprinidae: Cyprininae: Smiliogastrini) and description of a new species

(2016) M. L. J. Stiassny et al.   JOURNAL OF FISH BIOLOGY

Testing the potential of DNA barcoding in vertebrate radiations: the case of the littoral cichlids (Pisces, Perciformes, Cichlidae) from Lake Tanganyika

(2016) Floris C. Breman et al.   Molecular Ecology Resources

High levels of endemism in suckermouth catfishes (Mochokidae: Chiloglanis ) from the Upper Guinean forests of West Africa

(2016) Ray C. Schmidt et al.   MOLECULAR PHYLOGENETICS AND EVOLUTION

Terrace Aware Data Structure for Phylogenomic Inference from Supermatrices

(2016) Olga Chernomor et al.   SYSTEMATIC BIOLOGY

High levels of genetic structure and striking phenotypic variability in a sexually dimorphic suckermouth catfish from the African Highveld

(2015) Jake Morris et al.   BIOLOGICAL JOURNAL OF THE LINNEAN SOCIETY

Taxonomic challenges in freshwater fishes: a mismatch between morphology and DNA barcoding in fish of the north-eastern part of the Congo basin

(2015) Eva Decru et al.   Molecular Ecology Resources

Phylogeny and polyploidy: Resolving the classification of cyprinine fishes (Teleostei: Cypriniformes)

(2015) Lei Yang et al.   MOLECULAR PHYLOGENETICS AND EVOLUTION

A tribal level phylogeny of Lake Tanganyika cichlid fishes based on a genomic multi-marker approach

(2015) Britta S. Meyer et al.   MOLECULAR PHYLOGENETICS AND EVOLUTION

Revision of the Amphilius jacksonii complex (Siluriformes: Amphiliidae), with the descriptions of five new species

(2015) ALFRED W. THOMSON et al.   ZOOTAXA

Ecology and Evolution of the African Great Lakes and Their Faunas

(2014) Walter Salzburger et al.   Annual Review of Ecology Evolution and Systematics

Phylogeographic and phenotypic assessment of a basal haplochromine cichlid fish from Lake Chila, Zambia

(2014) B. Egger et al.   HYDROBIOLOGIA

IQ-TREE: A Fast and Effective Stochastic Algorithm for Estimating Maximum-Likelihood Phylogenies

(2014) Lam-Tung Nguyen et al.   MOLECULAR BIOLOGY AND EVOLUTION

Adaptive divergence between lake and stream populations of an East African cichlid fish

(2014) Anya Theis et al.   MOLECULAR ECOLOGY

Can DNA barcoding accurately discriminate megadiverse Neotropical freshwater fish fauna?

(2013) Luiz HG Pereira et al.   BMC GENETICS

A critical revision of the churchill snoutfish, genusPetrocephalusMarcusen, 1854 (Actinopterygii: Teleostei: Mormyridae), from southern and eastern Africa, with the recognition ofPetrocephalus tanensis, and the description of five new species

(2013) Bernd Kramer et al.   JOURNAL OF NATURAL HISTORY

PetrocephalusMarcusen, 1854 (Osteoglossomorpha: Mormyridae) of the Bangweulu-Mweru ecoregion (Luapula River system, Congo basin), with the description of a new species

(2013) Sébastien Lavoué   JOURNAL OF NATURAL HISTORY

Ultrafast Approximation for Phylogenetic Bootstrap

(2013) B. Q. Minh et al.   MOLECULAR BIOLOGY AND EVOLUTION

MAFFT Multiple Sequence Alignment Software Version 7: Improvements in Performance and Usability

(2013) K. Katoh et al.   MOLECULAR BIOLOGY AND EVOLUTION

Reconstructing mitochondrial genomes directly from genomic next-generation sequencing reads—a baiting and iterative mapping approach

(2013) Christoph Hahn et al.   NUCLEIC ACIDS RESEARCH

A DNA-Based Registry for All Animal Species: The Barcode Index Number (BIN) System

(2013) Sujeevan Ratnasingham et al.   PLoS One

Geneious Basic: An integrated and extendable desktop software platform for the organization and analysis of sequence data

(2012) M. Kearse et al.   BIOINFORMATICS

Origins of Shared Genetic Variation in African Cichlids

(2012) Yong-Hwee E. Loh et al.   MOLECULAR BIOLOGY AND EVOLUTION

GEOECODYNAMICS AND THE KALAHARI EPEIROGENY: LINKING ITS GENOMIC RECORD, TREE OF LIFE AND PALIMPSEST INTO A UNIFIED NARRATIVE OF LANDSCAPE EVOLUTION

(2012) F. P. D. COTTERILL et al.   SOUTH AFRICAN JOURNAL OF GEOLOGY

Pectoral fin loss in the Mastacembelidae: a new species from Lake Tanganyika

(2011) K. J. Brown et al.   JOURNAL OF ZOOLOGY

Cryptic Diversity of African Tigerfish (Genus Hydrocynus) Reveals Palaeogeographic Signatures of Linked Neogene Geotectonic Events

(2011) Sarah A. M. Goodier et al.   PLoS One

Overview of the Zambezi River System: Its history, fish fauna, fisheries, and conservation

(2010) Denis Tweddle   AQUATIC ECOSYSTEM HEALTH & MANAGEMENT

Mastacembelid eels support Lake Tanganyika as an evolutionary hotspot of diversification

(2010) Katherine J Brown et al.   BMC EVOLUTIONARY BIOLOGY

The integrative future of taxonomy

(2010) Jose M. Padial et al.   Frontiers in Zoology

The root of the East African cichlid radiations

(2009) Julia Schwarzer et al.   BMC EVOLUTIONARY BIOLOGY

Vast underestimation of Madagascar's biodiversity evidenced by an integrative amphibian inventory

(2009) D. R. Vieites et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

Freshwater Ecoregions of the World: A New Map of Biogeographic Units for Freshwater Biodiversity Conservation

(2008) Robin Abell et al.   BIOSCIENCE