4 datasets found

With its more than 500 young and ecologically diverse species, the Lake Malawi cichlid adaptive radiation provides a great system to study the evolution of biodiversity and...

This research project considers the genetic mechanisms of vertebrate diversification from two perspectives. The first is that of population genetics. How many genes experience...

Decoupling of the upper jaw bones - jaw kinesis - is a distinctive feature of the ray-finned fishes, but it is not clear how the innovation is related to the extraordinary...

Whole genome sequences are beginning to revolutionise our understanding of phylogenetic relationships. Yet, even whole genome sequences can fail to resolve the evolutionary...