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The genomic timeline of cichlid fish diversification across continents

AutorInnen: 
Michael Matschiner, Astrid Böhne, Fabrizia Ronco, Walter Salzburger
Erscheinungsjahr: 
2020
Vollständiger Titel: 
The genomic timeline of cichlid fish diversification across continents
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Publiziert in: 
Nature Communications
Publikationstyp: 
Zeitschriftenaufsatz
DOI Name: 
10.1038/s41467-020-17827-9
Keywords: 
phylogenomic hypothesis, time calibration, cichlid, radiation, fossil constraints, Bayesian model, Gondwana
Bibliographische Angaben: 
Matschiner M, Böhne A, Ronco F and Salzburger W. (2020) The genomic timeline of cichlid fish diversification across continents. Nature Communications 11, doi: 10.1038/s41467-020-17827-9 .
Abstract: 

Cichlid fishes are celebrated for their vast taxonomic, phenotypic, and ecological diversity; however, a central aspect of their evolution - the timeline of their diversification - remains contentious. Here, we generate draft genome assemblies of 14 species representing the global cichlid diversity and integrate these into a new phylogenomic hypothesis of cichlid and teleost evolution that we time-calibrate with 58 re-evaluated fossil constraints and a new Bayesian model accounting for fossil-assignment uncertainty. Our results support cichlid diversification long after the breakup of the supercontinent Gondwana and lay the foundation for precise temporal reconstructions of the exceptional continental cichlid adaptive radiations.