Nature Communications (Nov 2020)

The genomic timeline of cichlid fish diversification across continents

  • Michael Matschiner,
  • Astrid Böhne,
  • Fabrizia Ronco,
  • Walter Salzburger

DOI
https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-020-17827-9
Journal volume & issue
Vol. 11, no. 1
pp. 1 – 8

Abstract

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Cichlids are a model for adaptive radiation, but the timing of their diversification is debated. Here the authors assemble 14 cichlid genomes, introduce a Bayesian approach to account for fossil-assignment uncertainty, and present a dated phylogenomic hypothesis of cichlid and teleost evolution.