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Eco-Evo-Devo of killifish & kin. 🐟 Uncovering the 🧬 blueprints for life in extreme environments. Ex luto surgimus. #EcoEvoDevo #Killifish #WMU
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patyschneider22.bsky.social
How do four-eyed fish see above & underwater? 🌤️🌊 Our new preprint reveals how Anableps rewired its retina for dual vision- evolution at work 👁️👁️ Kudos to @perezlouise.bsky.social @josanesousa.bsky.social @keylapruett.bsky.social + team!
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November 4, 2025 at 3:56 PM
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molbioevol.bsky.social
@snbogan.bsky.social @notothentoma.bsky.social @scotthotaling.bsky.social @paulbfrandsen.bsky.social et al. explore the evolution of type III antifreeze proteins in deep sea zoarcoid fishes.

🔗 doi.org/10.1093/molbev/msaf219

#evobio #molbio
MBE | Temperature and Pressure Shaped the Evolution of Antifreeze Proteins in Polar and Deep Sea Zoarcoid Fishes A graphic visualizing the finding by Bogan et al. that antifreeze protein (AFP) genes increased in copy number among shallow-water, polar species of Zoarcoidei fishes. Top left: Pholis gunnellus photographed by Chris Isaacs (CC-BY-NC). Top right: Cebidichthys violaceus photographed by Alex Heyman (CC0 1.0). Bottom left: Lycenchelys sp. photographed by Julien Savoie (CC BY 4.0). Bottom right: Lycodes sp. photographed by Julien Savoie (CC BY 4.0).
October 21, 2025 at 9:40 AM
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fishfetisher.bsky.social
Why are some species smaller than a paperclip while others grow longer than a school bus? How is body size evolution governed in animals? Out now in @pnas.org we tackle these longstanding questions through a genetic lens using my favorite group of fishes as our model!! www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/...
Parallel shifts in differential gene expression reveal convergent miniaturization in fishes | PNAS
Body size variation in vertebrates is a complex polygenic trait, tightly correlated with numerous aspects of a species’ biology, ecology, and physi...
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October 22, 2025 at 9:33 PM
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dparichy.bsky.social
New preprint up with collaborators Jianguo Lu, @mpodobnik.bsky.social, Uwe Irion, Braedan McCluskey, John Postlethwait and others. New Danio genomes, evolution and pigment pattern variation. Long time in the making www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
October 19, 2025 at 10:28 PM
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zebrafishrock.bsky.social
Zebrafish embryo undergoing gastrulation. Credit to Dr. Gopi Shah at EMBL. #ZebrafishZunday 🧪
October 19, 2025 at 9:24 AM
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👻 G-g-ghost? Nope, s-s-snailfish! 🤍

Meet the mesmerizing new addition to our Into the Deep/En lo Profundo exhibit, rough snailfish! These ethereal charmers live in the benthic zone, a scientific term for the seafloor.
October 20, 2025 at 8:57 PM
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fishevodevogeno.bsky.social
Congrats @liujuan.bsky.social, our very own @zzhou32.bsky.social and all co-authors! Fintastic work!
liujuan.bsky.social Juan Liu @liujuan.bsky.social · Oct 2
New in @science.org, meet Acronichthys maccagnoi, a new species from Late Creatacous Canada that changes what we know about the origins and evolution of one of the most successful fish groups on Earth.
October 2, 2025 at 8:11 PM
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marcrr.bsky.social
Update of our preprint on Inter-individual gene expression variability in fishes! We improved statistical analyses of continuous variables, and especially added machine learning on promoters which confirms cis-regulation of organ-specific expression variability.
www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
Inter-individual gene expression variability implies stable regulation of brain-biased genes across organs
Phenotypic variation among individuals plays a key role in evolution, since variation provides the material on which natural selection can act. One important link between genetic and phenotypic variat...
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September 3, 2025 at 12:15 PM
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evodevopanam.bsky.social
You're fin-tastic! 🐟🐠🌟🤩

Our fish community present #PASEDB2025!
@nakamuralab.bsky.social @phernandez.bsky.social @patyschneider22.bsky.social @ischneider.bsky.social @xtremo-devo-lab.bsky.social @fishevodevogeno.bsky.social @homeobox.bsky.social and more!

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July 23, 2025 at 8:35 PM
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fishevodevogeno.bsky.social
Our dear friend @ischneider.bsky.social receiving the Young Investigator Award from @evodevopanam.bsky.social! So incredibly deserved!
#PASEDB2025

To infishity and beyond! Great work, Igor!
July 23, 2025 at 5:01 AM
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fishevodevogeno.bsky.social
EvoDevotees, if you are at #PASEDB2025 and interested in either of these job opportunities for Fish Facility Manager or Presidential Postdoc at Michigan State U, let’s grab a coffee and chat

#EndlessFishMostBeautiful

@evodevopanam.bsky.social
July 22, 2025 at 3:33 PM
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ischneider.bsky.social
#PanAmEvodevo2025 is about to start! Starting countdown, engines on! @fishevodevogeno.bsky.social @xtremo-devo-lab.bsky.social @patyschneider22.bsky.social
July 22, 2025 at 1:07 AM
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currentbiology.bsky.social
Our latest issue is now live! On the cover is a species of Asian noodlefish characterized by their transparency due to the absence of red blood cells, slender bodies and scaleless skins, and a poorly ossified skeleton. www.cell.com/current-biol...
July 7, 2025 at 3:33 PM
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homeobox.bsky.social
We take for granted that our hands have two sides and can articulate in an endless number of ways. But what about a fish’s fin? Can a fish know something “like the back of its fin,” or have its future told with a fin palm reading? Check out this bluetorial to find out 👇🧪🧬🐟 doi.org/10.1101/2025...
Schematics depicting the dorsal and ventral sides of fins and limbs
July 7, 2025 at 6:47 AM
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fishevodevogeno.bsky.social
The Braasch Lab @fishevodevogeno.bsky.social will soon post a position to replace manager of our *Ancient Fish Facility* at Michigan State. Looking for aquaculturist excited for unusual 🐟 species (gar, bowfin, paddlefish, polypterus) + zebrafish. Pls send candidates our way (DM or [email protected])!
July 1, 2025 at 6:43 PM
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evodevopanam.bsky.social
At #PASEDB we embrace all organisms. Each one has its own evolutionary trajectory that makes life so diverse 🌈🦄

Artwork: Ximena Gutierrez Ramos and Katie Reding
June 28, 2025 at 3:37 PM
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jeffreyafarrell.bsky.social
If you love Daniocell, but wish it could generate analyses specific to YOUR genes & cell types of interest, check out DaniocellDesktop - a new point-and-click app for Mac and Windows that enables reanalysis of the Daniocell data without programming: daniocell.nichd.nih.gov/desktop/ (1/4)
DaniocellDesktop logo, depicting a fish on a laptop screen.
June 13, 2025 at 2:30 PM
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evodevopanam.bsky.social
You have so-fish-ticated taste 🐟
Fish satellite symposia speaker talks at #PASEDB

Invited speaker: Andrew Thompson

Organizers: @nakamuralab.bsky.social @patyschneider22.bsky.social & Joaquín Letelier

Register: evodevo.wildapricot.org/event-6007396
June 6, 2025 at 3:00 PM
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prosanta.bsky.social
An (omics) perspective on the evolution of vision in deep-sea
fishes reveals exceptional adaptations to life in the extreme

Musilova & Cortesi 2025 Functional Ecology

besjournals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/pdfdirec...

#ichthyology #teamfish neat review of genetics of deep-sea vision in fishes
deep-sea adaptations have evolved independently in several groups. Eye shape: A prominent morphological example is the evolution of an elongated tubular, barrel eye to maximize photon capture in several deep-sea groups. Groups, where tubular eyes are common, are marked by a black square and a tubular eye scheme; groups with one/ few cases of tubular eyes but where the majority of species have a camera-type eye are marked with black dots (i.e. anglerfishes and dragonfishes). Retina: Rod-only retinas are a common feature of many adult deep-sea fishes. In other cases, they possess the typical duplex retina with cones (green cells) and rod cells (grey cells). Multibank: In some species, the rod cells are organized in multiple layers, forming a multibank retina, while other deep-sea fishes have the typical vertebrate single layer. Cone/rod id: Some deep-sea fishes have photoreceptor cells with an uncertain id that is intermediate between rods and cones due to a mismatch of the opsin and phototransduction cascade genes (e.g. in Scopelarchidae and Evermanellidae; Aulopiformes), or thanks to the presence of transmuted cells (i.e. rod-like cones in Maurolicus spp.; Sternoptychidae; Stomiiformes). Rhodopsins: Like other vertebrates, most lineages only have one rhodopsin (rh1) gene. Two rhodopsins are found in pearleyes (Scopelarchidae; Aulopiformes), and hatchetfishes (Sternoptychidae, Stomiiformes), and more than three rhodopsin genes are found in lanternfishes (Myctophiformes), spinyfins (Diretmidae), and tube-eye (Stylephoriformes). Photos (from top to bottom): Threadfin dragonfish, Echiostoma barbatum (Stomiiformes; photo Zuzana Musilova); pearleye, Benthalbella sp. (Aulopiformes; photo Zuzana Konvičková); and silver spinyfin, Diretmus argenteus (Trachichthyiformes; photo Vít Kaufman). Based on data from Collin and Partridge (1996), De Busserolles et al. (2017), De Busserolles et al. (2020), Lupše et al. (2021) and Musilova, Cortesi, et al. (2
June 6, 2025 at 12:08 PM
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shoalorg.bsky.social
🐟 Thanks to everyone who joined our Killifish Webinar!

We chatted with four expert voices about the brilliant killifish conservation work they have been doing in the Mediterranean Basin #freshwater

ICYMI it's now available to watch again on YouTube 👇
buff.ly/R4wxOcY
Photograph of a grey and green fish, with a green box inside which is a green play button.
June 4, 2025 at 9:10 AM
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jutfelt.bsky.social
Sturgeon surprise! 🧜‍♀️
miriam.blacksky.app Christmas Miriam 🎄 @miriam.blacksky.app · Jan 30
Timeline cleanse. A sturgeon in an aquarium tried to swallow a woman dressed as a mermaid. From r/interestingasfuck
June 3, 2025 at 6:19 AM
xtremo-devo-lab.bsky.social
Gotta tag some #library people! @jacquelinethompson.bsky.social
June 1, 2025 at 3:23 PM
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fishevodevogeno.bsky.social
Backflippin’ feeding action!

#Paddlefishing
#Polyodon
#EndlessPaddlefishMostBeautiful

Le fin!
May 30, 2025 at 3:41 AM
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fishfetisher.bsky.social
Incredible morphological convergence!! #Evol2025
May 30, 2025 at 6:26 PM
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fishevodevogeno.bsky.social
Hyperactive #Polyodon - one week old

#Paddlefishing
#EndlessFishMostBeautiful
May 22, 2025 at 6:26 PM