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49 relations: Africa, Alcolapia, Autapomorphy, Basal (phylogenetics), Behavior, Blackchin tilapia, Cichlid, Clade, Convergent evolution, Coptodon bemini, Danakilia, Ethelwynn Trewavas, Evolutionary grade, Gene flow, Gene pool, Genus, Haplochromine, Heterotilapia, Heterotilapia buttikoferi, Hybrid (biology), Ichthyology, Iranocichla, Lamprologini, Lek mating, Middle East, Mitochondrial DNA, Monophyly, Morphology (biology), Mouthbrooder, Nuclear DNA, Nucleic acid sequence, Oreochromis, Paraphyly, Pelmatolapia, Phylogenetics, Pseudocrenilabrinae, Sample size determination, Sarotherodon, Steatocranus, Stomatepia, Subfamily, Symplesiomorphy, Taxon, Tilapia, Tilapia (genus), Tribe (biology), Tristramella, Tropheini, Type species.
Africa
Africa is the world's second largest and second most-populous continent (behind Asia in both categories).
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Alcolapia
Alcolapia is a genus of small fishes in the Cichlidae family.
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Autapomorphy
In phylogenetics, an autapomorphy is a distinctive feature, known as a derived trait, that is unique to a given taxon.
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Basal (phylogenetics)
In phylogenetics, basal is the direction of the base (or root) of a rooted phylogenetic tree or cladogram.
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Behavior
Behavior (American English) or behaviour (Commonwealth English) is the range of actions and mannerisms made by individuals, organisms, systems, or artificial entities in conjunction with themselves or their environment, which includes the other systems or organisms around as well as the (inanimate) physical environment.
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Blackchin tilapia
The blackchin tilapia (Sarotherodon melanotheron) is a species of cichlid native to west Africa.
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Cichlid
Cichlids are fish from the family Cichlidae in the order Perciformes.
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Clade
A clade (from κλάδος, klados, "branch"), also known as monophyletic group, is a group of organisms that consists of a common ancestor and all its lineal descendants, and represents a single "branch" on the "tree of life".
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Convergent evolution
Convergent evolution is the independent evolution of similar features in species of different lineages.
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Coptodon bemini
Coptodon bemini is a critically endangered species of fish in the cichlid family.
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Danakilia
Danakilia is a genus of cichlids native to northeastern Africa where they are only known from saline lakes in the Danakil Depression of Ethiopia and Eritrea.
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Ethelwynn Trewavas
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Evolutionary grade
In alpha taxonomy, a grade is a taxon united by a level of morphological or physiological complexity.
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Gene flow
In population genetics, gene flow (also known as gene migration or allele flow) is the transfer of genetic variation from one population to another.
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Gene pool
The gene pool is the set of all genes, or genetic information, in any population, usually of a particular species.
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Genus
A genus (genera) is a taxonomic rank used in the biological classification of living and fossil organisms, as well as viruses, in biology.
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Haplochromine
The haplochromine cichlids are a tribe of cichlids in subfamily Pseudocrenilabrinae called Haplochromini.
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Heterotilapia
Heterotilapia is a genus of cichlids native to western Africa.
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Heterotilapia buttikoferi
Heterotilapia buttikoferi, also known as the zebra tilapia, is a West African species of cichlid.
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Hybrid (biology)
In biology, a hybrid, or crossbreed, is the result of combining the qualities of two organisms of different breeds, varieties, species or genera through sexual reproduction.
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Ichthyology
Ichthyology (from Greek: ἰχθύς, ikhthys, "fish"; and λόγος, logos, "study"), also known as fish science, is the branch of zoology devoted to the study of fish.
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Iranocichla
Iranocichla is a genus of fish in the family Cichlidae found in fresh and brackish waters in southern Iran.
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Lamprologini
Lamprologini is a tribe of African cichlid fishes.
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Lek mating
A lek, from the Swedish word for "play", is an aggregation of male animals gathered to engage in competitive displays, lekking, to entice visiting females which are surveying prospective partners for copulation.
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Middle East
The Middle Easttranslit-std; translit; Orta Şərq; Central Kurdish: ڕۆژھەڵاتی ناوین, Rojhelatî Nawîn; Moyen-Orient; translit; translit; translit; Rojhilata Navîn; translit; Bariga Dhexe; Orta Doğu; translit is a transcontinental region centered on Western Asia, Turkey (both Asian and European), and Egypt (which is mostly in North Africa).
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Mitochondrial DNA
Mitochondrial DNA (mtDNA or mDNA) is the DNA located in mitochondria, cellular organelles within eukaryotic cells that convert chemical energy from food into a form that cells can use, adenosine triphosphate (ATP).
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Monophyly
In cladistics, a monophyletic group, or clade, is a group of organisms that consists of all the descendants of a common ancestor.
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Morphology (biology)
Morphology is a branch of biology dealing with the study of the form and structure of organisms and their specific structural features.
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Mouthbrooder
Mouthbrooding, also known as oral incubation and buccal incubation, is the care given by some groups of animals to their offspring by holding them in the mouth of the parent for extended periods of time.
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Nuclear DNA
Nuclear DNA, or nuclear deoxyribonucleic acid (nDNA), is the DNA contained within the nucleus of a eukaryotic organism.
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Nucleic acid sequence
A nucleic acid sequence is a succession of letters that indicate the order of nucleotides forming alleles within a DNA (using GACT) or RNA (GACU) molecule.
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Oreochromis
Oreochromis is a large genus of tilapiine cichlids, fishes endemic to Africa and the Middle East.
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Paraphyly
In taxonomy, a group is paraphyletic if it consists of the group's last common ancestor and all descendants of that ancestor excluding a few—typically only one or two—monophyletic subgroups.
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Pelmatolapia
Pelmatolapia is a genus of cichlids native to tropical Africa.
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Phylogenetics
In biology, phylogenetics (Greek: φυλή, φῦλον – phylé, phylon.
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Pseudocrenilabrinae
The Pseudocrenilabrinae are a subfamily in the cichlid family of fishes to which, according to a study from 2004, includes all the Middle Eastern and African cichlids with the exception of the unusual Heterochromis multidens and the Malagasy species.
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Sample size determination
Sample size determination is the act of choosing the number of observations or replicates to include in a statistical sample.
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Sarotherodon
Sarotherodon is a genus of tilapiine cichlids endemic to Africa and the Middle East.
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Steatocranus
Steatocranus is a genus of small rheophilic cichlids mostly native to the Congo River Basin in DR Congo/Congo Brazzaville, although one species, S. irvinei, is restricted to the Volta River in Ghana and will likely be removed from this genus at a future date.
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Stomatepia
Stomatepia is a genus of cichlids endemic to Lake Barombi Mbo in western Cameroon.
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Subfamily
In biological classification, a subfamily (Latin: subfamilia, plural subfamiliae) is an auxiliary (intermediate) taxonomic rank, next below family but more inclusive than genus.
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Symplesiomorphy
In phylogenetics, a plesiomorphy, symplesiomorphy or symplesiomorphic character is an ancestral character or trait state shared by two or more taxa.
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Taxon
In biology, a taxon (plural taxa; back-formation from taxonomy) is a group of one or more populations of an organism or organisms seen by taxonomists to form a unit.
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Tilapia
Tilapia is the common name for nearly a hundred species of cichlid fish from the tilapiine cichlid tribe.
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Tilapia (genus)
Tilapia is a genus of cichlid fishes endemic to freshwater habitats in Southern Africa.
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Tribe (biology)
In biology, a tribe is a taxonomic rank above genus, but below family and subfamily.
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Tristramella
Tristramella is a genus of fishes in the Cichlidae family.
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Tropheini
Tropheini is a tribe of African cichlids, endemic to Lake Tanganyika.
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Type species
In zoological nomenclature, a type species (species typica) is the species name with which the name of a genus or subgenus is considered to be permanently taxonomically associated, i.e., the species that contains the biological type specimen(s).
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References
[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tilapiine_cichlid
