Sampling cichlid fish tissues for genome and transcriptome sequencing in Tanzania and Zanzibar Archipelago. Tilapia and haplochromine cichlid fish species were sampled for associated studies on characterising genomic signatures of domestication and adaptation. Credit: Dr Graham Etherington and Dr Tarang Mehta, Earlham Institue (EI). Read Time:
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BMC Genome Biology, an Earlham Institute study, with collaborators at the University of East Anglia (UEA) and Wisconsin Institute for Discovery, shows that âgenetic rewiringâ at non-coding regions - rather than mutations to protein-coding regions of genes - may play an important role in how cichlid fish are able to rapidly adapt to fill a staggeringly wide range of environmental niches in the East African Rift lakes.
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Credit: Dr Graham Etherington and Dr Tarang Mehta, Earlham Institue (EI)
Genetic rewiring could have driven an evolutionary explosion in the shapes, sizes and adaptations of cichlid fish, in East Africa s answer to Darwin s Galapagos finches.
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BMC Genome Biology, an Earlham Institute (EI) study, with collaborators at the University of East Anglia (UEA) and Wisconsin Institute for Discovery, shows that genetic rewiring at non-coding regions - rather than mutations to protein-coding regions of genes - may play an important role in how cichlid fish are able to rapidly adapt to fill a staggeringly wide range of environmental niches in the East African Rift lakes.