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New paper: Vision genes in fishes

New paper from work done in Konstanz and now led by Julian Torres-Dowdall, " Rapid and parallel adaptive evolution of the visual system of Neotropical Midas cichlid fishes" in the journal  Molecular Biology and Evolution This study represented an excellent combination of field experiments for collections and detailed characterisation of environment, sequencing the full complement of opsin genes and expression, and assessing the structures of the eye. Abstract: Midas cichlid fish are a Central American species flock containing 13 described species that has been dated to only few thousand years old, a historical timescale infrequently associated with speciation. Their radiation involved the colonization of several clear water crater lakes from two turbid great lakes. Therefore, Midas cichlids have been subjected to widely varying photic conditions during their radiation. Being a primary signal relay for information from the environment to the organism, the visual system is

Finalist for PhD student Hamilton Award

PhD student Arne Jacobs has been selected as a finalist for the Hamilton Award for Outstanding Student Presentation . Check out his work and the other exciting finalists at the Evolution meeting in Portland!

Congrats to Paige!

Congratulations to summer-2016 FSBI Intern and subsequent Honours student with our group  - Paige Robinson - who has been offered (and accepted) a PhD position through NERC iCASE on fish epigenetic research at the University of Exeter.