Tectonics, climate and the diversification of the tropical African terrestrial flora and fauna

TLP Couvreur, G Dauby, A Blach‐Overgaard… - Biological …, 2021 - Wiley Online Library
Tropical Africa is home to an astonishing biodiversity occurring in a variety of ecosystems.
Past climatic change and geological events have impacted the evolution and diversification …

Taming transposable elements in vertebrates: from epigenetic silencing to domestication

MV Almeida, G Vernaz, ALK Putman, EA Miska - Trends in Genetics, 2022 - cell.com
Transposable element (TE)-derived sequences are ubiquitous in most eukaryotic genomes
known to date. Because their expression and mobility can lead to genomic instability …

Drivers and dynamics of a massive adaptive radiation in cichlid fishes

F Ronco, M Matschiner, A Böhne, A Boila, HH Büscher… - Nature, 2021 - nature.com
Adaptive radiation is the likely source of much of the ecological and morphological diversity
of life,,–. How adaptive radiations proceed and what determines their extent remains unclear …

[HTML][HTML] Rethinking fish biology and biotechnologies in the challenge era for burgeoning genome resources and strengthening food security

JF Gui, L Zhou, XY Li - Water Biology and Security, 2022 - Elsevier
Fish biology has been developed for more than 100 years, but some important
breakthroughs have been made in the last decade. Early studies commonly concentrated on …

Comparing adaptive radiations across space, time, and taxa

RG Gillespie, GM Bennett, L De Meester… - Journal of …, 2020 - academic.oup.com
Adaptive radiation plays a fundamental role in our understanding of the evolutionary
process. However, the concept has provoked strong and differing opinions concerning its …

Netting the stress responses in fish

JC Balasch, L Tort - Frontiers in Endocrinology, 2019 - frontiersin.org
In the last decade, the concept of animal stress has been stressed thin to accommodate the
effects of short-term changes in cell and tissue physiology, major behavioral syndromes in …

An atlas of fish genome evolution reveals delayed rediploidization following the teleost whole-genome duplication

E Parey, A Louis, J Montfort, Y Guiguen… - Genome …, 2022 - genome.cshlp.org
Teleost fishes are ancient tetraploids descended from an ancestral whole-genome
duplication that may have contributed to the impressive diversification of this clade. Whole …

Ancestral hybridization facilitated species diversification in the Lake Malawi cichlid fish adaptive radiation

H Svardal, FX Quah, M Malinsky… - Molecular biology …, 2020 - academic.oup.com
The adaptive radiation of cichlid fishes in East African Lake Malawi encompasses over 500
species that are believed to have evolved within the last 800,000 years from a common …

Hybridization increases population variation during adaptive radiation

PR Grant, BR Grant - … of the National Academy of Sciences, 2019 - National Acad Sciences
Adaptive radiations are prominent components of the world's biodiversity. They comprise
many species derived from one or a small number of ancestral species in a geologically …

Depth-discrete metagenomics reveals the roles of microbes in biogeochemical cycling in the tropical freshwater Lake Tanganyika

PQ Tran, SC Bachand, PB McIntyre… - The ISME …, 2021 - academic.oup.com
Lake Tanganyika (LT) is the largest tropical freshwater lake, and the largest body of anoxic
freshwater on Earth's surface. LT's mixed oxygenated surface waters float atop a …