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Lake Tanganyika cichlids partition habitat by time

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New experimental evidence suggests that cichlids in Lake Tanganyika exhibit diverse activity patterns, and these differences are associated with variation in unexpected genetic loci.

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Fig. 1: Diverse activity patterns of Lake Tanganyika cichlid fishes.

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