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 ...

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 ...

Tracing the evolution of deep-sea fishes, the researchers' analysis revealed that the eight lineages of fish species studied entered the deep-sea environment at different times: The earliest ...

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

These findings, which prove the ancient origin of PRDM9, open new perspectives on genome evolution across the ages ... while it is absent in closely related fish. They developed a set of molecular ...

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 ...

“Hox genes seem to have a lot of constraint across evolution,” said Srivastava ... With the brittle star genome in hand, Marlétaz and his team investigated another important feature of the animal: ...

In a study published in Genome Biology, a research team led by ... observation confirmed by fluorescence in situ hybridization (FISH) assays. To further investigate this phenomenon, the ...