How are pufferfish helping us understand our own evolution? By mapping synteny in their short genome, scientists can ... Aa Aa Aa The fugu is a famous fish, at least when it comes to sushi ...

Chitons overcome evolutionary constraints through unprecedented genomic dynamism, with extensive chromosomal rearrangements and duplications despite about 300 million years of morphological stasis.

evolution has not stood still on either the fish or tetrapod branch. Over this period, all aspects of fish physiology and the fish genome have changed, though perhaps in ways that are not obvious ...

More information: Erika Fodor et al, The reference genome of Macropodus opercularis (the paradise fish), Scientific Data ...

The fish—like their namesake ... But new findings, published Monday (February 12) in Nature Ecology & Evolution, reveal that the molly’s genome is surprisingly robust. “The genetic health of this ...

“This is the most comprehensive scientific publication on the distribution of fish bioluminescence ever written, and the authors show that bioluminescence evolved way more times independently than ...

This image shows relationships between representative animal lineages and three important whole genome duplication events. The aftermath of the teleost-specific whole genome duplication is the ...

The recombination between parental chromosomes, a characteristic of sexual reproduction, plays a crucial role in evolution.