Evolution, inactivation and loss of short wavelength‐sensitive opsin genes during the diversification of Neotropical cichlids [PDF]
Molecular Ecology, 2021 Natural variation in the number, expression and function of sensory genes in an organism's genome is often tightly linked to different ecological and evolutionary forces. Opsin genes, which code for the first step in visual transduction, are ideal models
Frances E. Hauser +5 more
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Cichlids and stingrays can add and subtract ‘one’ in the number space from one to five [PDF]
Scientific Reports, 2022 The numerical understanding of cichlids and stingrays was examined regarding addition and subtraction abilities within the number space of one to five. Experiments were conducted as two-alternative forced-choice experiments, using a delayed matching to ...
V. Schluessel +3 more
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Genomics of Parallel Ecological Speciation in Lake Victoria Cichlids [PDF]
Molecular biology and evolution, 2018 The genetic basis of parallel evolution of similar species is of great interest in evolutionary biology. In the adaptive radiation of Lake Victoria cichlid fishes, sister species with either blue or red‐back male nuptial coloration have evolved ...
Joana I. Meier +4 more
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Possible Involvement of Ghost Introgressions in the Striking Diversity of Vomeronasal Type 1 Receptor Genes in East African Cichlids [PDF]
Ecology and EvolutionCichlids that have undergone adaptive radiation are genetically close but exhibit extreme ecological and morphological diversity, making them useful for understanding speciation mechanisms.
Shunsuke Taki +4 more
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Evolution of regulatory networks associated with traits under selection in cichlids
Genome Biology, 2021 Background Seminal studies of vertebrate protein evolution speculated that gene regulatory changes can drive anatomical innovations. However, very little is known about gene regulatory network (GRN) evolution associated with phenotypic effect across ...
Tarang K. Mehta +11 more
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Dynamic co-evolution of transposable elements and the piRNA pathway in African cichlid fishes [PDF]
Genome BiologyBackground East African cichlid fishes have diversified in an explosive fashion, but the (epi)genetic basis of the phenotypic diversity of these fishes remains largely unknown.
Miguel Vasconcelos Almeida +16 more
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Oca2 targeting using CRISPR/Cas9 in the Malawi cichlid Astatotilapia calliptera
Royal Society Open Science, 2022 Identifying genetic loci underlying trait variation provides insights into the mechanisms of diversification, but demonstrating causality and characterizing the role of genetic loci requires testing candidate gene function, often in non-model species ...
Bethan Clark +8 more
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Parasitology, 2023 Ergasilus (von Nordmann, 1832) (Ergasilidae) is a species-rich group of parasitic copepods with a wide distribution in freshwater, marine and brackish environments. Up to now, 9 species of Ergasilus are known from cichlid fishes in Africa. In this study,
Robert Míč +2 more
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Hydrobiologia, 2021 The link between the evolution of advanced sociality and cognition has been an important concept across fields and taxonomic boundaries. However, in many study systems, ecological and phylogenetic confounds impair evolutionary inferences drawn when ...
Etienne Lein, Alex Jordan
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The Evolutionary Dynamics of the Mitochondrial tRNA in the Cichlid Fish Family
Biology, 2022 The mitochondrial transfer RNA genes (tRNAs) attract more attention due to their highly dynamic and rapidly evolving nature. The current study aimed to detect and evaluate the dynamics, characteristic patterns, and variations of mitochondrial tRNAs.
Yosur G. Fiteha, Mahmoud Magdy
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