Tracking shape changes in Amazon fish after major river is dammed

A team of biologists led by Craig Albertson and Ph.D. student Chaise Gilbert at the University of Massachusetts Amherst report this week on their comparison between museum collections of cichlid fishes collected before a dam was closed in 1984 on the Tocantins River in the Amazon and contemporary specimens taken from the TucuruĂ­ Reservoir by fishermen 34 years later.


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