Caecilian genomes reveal molecular basis of adaptation and convergent evolution of limblessness in snakes and caecilians.
V. Ovchinnikov, M. Uliano-Silva, M. Wilkinson, J. Wood, M. Smith, K. Oliver, Y. Sims, J. Torrance, A. Suh, S. McCarthy, R. Durbin, M. J. O'Connell
The paper analyzes caecilian genomes to identify molecular mechanisms underlying limblessness and convergent evolution with snakes, finding shared genetic targets involved in limb development.
bioRxiv · Feb 23, 2022Evolutionary Biology