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Phylogenomics of a putatively convergent novelty: did hypertrophied lips evolve once or repeatedly in Lake Malawi cichlid fishes?

Christopher Darrin HulseyJimmy ZhengRoi HolzmanMichael E AlfaroMelisa OlaveAxel Meyer
Published in: BMC evolutionary biology (2018)
Contrary to mitochondrial DNA phylogenies, bifurcating trees based on our 1024 UCE loci supported close affinities of Lake Malawi lineages with hypertrophied lips. However, incomplete lineage sorting in Malawi tends to render these inferences more tenuous. Phylogenomic analyses will continue to provide powerful inferences about whether phenotypic novelties arose once or multiple times during adaptive radiation.
Keyphrases
  • mitochondrial dna
  • copy number
  • genome wide
  • water quality
  • single cell
  • radiation induced
  • gene expression
  • radiation therapy