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Open AccessIdentification of the notothenioid sister lineage illuminates the biogeographic history of an Antarctic adaptive radiation
Antarctic notothenioids are an impressive adaptive radiation. While they share recent common ancestry with several species-depauperate lineages that exhibit a relictual distribution in areas peripheral to the ...
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Open AccessEvolutionary history of anglerfishes (Teleostei: Lophiiformes): a mitogenomic perspective
The teleost order Lophiiformes, commonly known as the anglerfishes, contains a diverse array of marine fishes, ranging from benthic shallow-water dwellers to highly modified deep-sea midwater species. They com...
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Dimorphism, parasitism, and sex revisited: modes of reproduction among deep-sea ceratioid anglerfishes (Teleostei: Lophiiformes)
Sexual parasitism, a remarkable mode of reproduction unique to some members of the deep-sea anglerfish suborder Ceratioidei, in which males are dwarfed and become permanently attached to much larger females, i...
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A new sculpin, Microcottus matuaensis, from the central Kuril Archipelago (Scorpaeniformes: Cottidae)
A new cottid species, Microcottus matuaensis, is described on the basis of 16 specimens (27.9–81.3 mm SL) collected from tide pools of Matua Island, central Kuril Archipelago. This species is the second species o...
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Precocious sexual parasitism in the deep sea ceratioid anglerfish, Cryptopsaras couesi Gill
THE eleven families and nearly one hundred species of ceratioid anglerfish are distributed throughout the world's oceans below a depth of 500 m. The Ceratiidae, with two monotypic genera, Ceratias Kröyer and Cryp...
