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Cambridge Lake Malawi genome project: updates, resources and more

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Photos from our 2017 Malawi Malombe trip

Finally, a selection of under- and overwater impressions by Hannes Svardal is available here.

Bosco Rusuwa from University of Malawi visiting Cambridge

Bosco Rusuwa from the University of Malawi was visiting the Sanger Institute to collaborate with Hannes Svardal on fisheries induced…

Cichlid talk at Sanger Caganised

Very proud that my talk on the Lake Malawi adaptive radiation at the Sanger Insitute’s Scientific Away Day got graphically…

Preprint: Whole Genome Sequences Of Malawi Cichlids Reveal Multiple Radiations Interconnected By Gene Flow

Our first preprint on the Lake Malawi adaptive radiation is online. It presents analyses on the data recently released. Here…

Genome sequences for 73 Lake Malawi cichlid species

We have released a Variant Call Format (VCF) file for 73 Lake Malawi cichlid species. The VCF file contains genome-wide biallelic Single…

Malawi Malombe sample collection trip

We had a very successful field trip in Jan/Feb 2017 to lakes Malombe and Malawi, collecting more than  photographs, fin clips, and…

1300 Cichlid samples donated to the Cambridge Zoology Museum

We are happy the ~1300 formalin and ethanol preserved Lake Malawi cichlid specimen that we brought back from our 2016 field…

Cambridge Africa Grant on fisheries induced evolution

H. Svardal (Sanger Inst., Cambridge) and B. Rusuwa (University of Malawi, Zomba) got awarded a grant for joint sample collection…

Malawi field trip 2016

Our 2016 field trip

Article: Genomic islands of speciation separate cichlid ecomorphs in an East African crater lake

Milan Malinsky et al.’s article on the genomics of speciation in an East African crater lake is out. Article. Abstract…

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