Genetic rewiring behind spectacular evolutionary explosion in East Africa

Genetic rewiring behind spectacular evolutionary explosion in East Africa

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Norwich UK (SPX) Jan 20, 2021

Genetic rewiring could have driven an evolutionary explosion in the shapes, sizes and adaptations of cichlid fish, in East Africa's answer to Darwin's Galapagos finches. Published in BMC Genome Biology, an Earlham Institute (EI) study, with collaborators at the University of East Anglia (UEA) and Wisconsin Institute for Discovery, shows that 'genetic rewiring' at non-coding regions - rathe

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