Historical contingency shapes adaptive radiation in Antarctic fishes
J. M. Daane, A. Dornburg, P. Smits, D. J. MacGuigan, M. B. Hawkins, T. J. Near, H. W. Detrich, M. P. Harris
This study shows that historical contingency, not adaptive evolution, drove key skeletal modifications in Antarctic notothenioid fishes before polar conditions arose.
bioRxiv · Nov 26, 2018Evolutionary Biology