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. 2019 Oct 9;20(20):4994. doi: 10.3390/ijms20204994

Figure 1.

Figure 1

Schematic evolution of cichlid karyotypes. Data reviewed from [22,23,52,53,54,55,56,57]. Modal chromosome numbers for African (2n = 44) and Neotropical (2n = 48) cichlids are highlighted in bold. Phylogenetic relationships after [38,39]. Note that Barombi Mbo cichlids belong in the Oreochromini tribe, and the phylogenetic position of this tribe among other African cichlids shows that they are only distantly related to the cichlids from the Tanganyika, Malawi and Victoria lakes. Photos show Konia dikume, Pungu maclareni, Stomatepia mongo, Sarotherodon linnellii and St. pindu.