How sessile seahorses managed to speciate and disperse across the world's oceans
E-Mail The international research collaboration involving the research team led by evolutionary biologist Professor Axel Meyer at the University of Konstanz and researchers from China and Singapore was able to identify factors that led to the success of the seahorse from a developmental biology perspective: its quickness to adapt by, for example, repeatedly evolving spines in the skin and its fast genetic rates of evolution. The results will be published on 17 February 2021 in Nature Communications. Seahorses of the genus Hippocampus emerged about 25 million years ago in the Indo-Pacific r...
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