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 …
Past climatic change and geological events have impacted the evolution and diversification …
Taming transposable elements in vertebrates: from epigenetic silencing to domestication
Transposable element (TE)-derived sequences are ubiquitous in most eukaryotic genomes
known to date. Because their expression and mobility can lead to genomic instability …
known to date. Because their expression and mobility can lead to genomic instability …
Drivers and dynamics of a massive adaptive radiation in cichlid fishes
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 …
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 …
breakthroughs have been made in the last decade. Early studies commonly concentrated on …
Comparing adaptive radiations across space, time, and taxa
Adaptive radiation plays a fundamental role in our understanding of the evolutionary
process. However, the concept has provoked strong and differing opinions concerning its …
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 …
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
Teleost fishes are ancient tetraploids descended from an ancestral whole-genome
duplication that may have contributed to the impressive diversification of this clade. Whole …
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 …
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 …
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 …
freshwater on Earth's surface. LT's mixed oxygenated surface waters float atop a …