Los impulsores y la dinámica de una radiación adaptativa masiva en peces cíclidos

Fabrizia Ronco1, Michael Matschiner2,3,4, Astrid Böhne2,5

  • 1Zoological Institute, Department of Environmental Sciences, University of Basel, Basel, Switzerland. fabrizia.ronco@unibas.ch.

Nature
|November 19, 2020
PubMed
Resumen

La radiación adaptativa en los cíclidos del lago Tanganica muestra diversificación en pulsos rápidos y específicos de rasgos. La riqueza de las especies se correlaciona con la heterocigosidad, no con el contenido del genoma, lo que ofrece información sobre la diversidad evolutiva.

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