Elise Parey

Feb 9, 2023 | science.org | Andrew Feinberg |Ryohei Iwata |Danyel Lee |Elise Parey

LATEST NEWS Debate resolved? Teleost (or “ray-finned”) fishes make up half of all vertebrates, but there has been long-standing debate about their early evolution. Using new genomes from fishes in the basal group that includes tarpons and eels, as well as approaches that integrate patterns of genome structure not just sequence, Parey et al. show that this group forms a monophyletic lineage within another group that includes the arapaima and elephant nose fishes.