Expanded olfactory system in fishes capable of terrestrial exploration
D. Burguera, F. Dionigi, K. Kverkov, S. Winkler, T. Brown, M. Pippel, Y. Zhang, M. Shafer, A. L. A. Nichols, E. Myers, P. Nemec, Z. Musilova
The paper examines the relationship between ecological traits and olfactory receptor gene expansions in ray-finned fishes, finding convergent increases in olfactory system size in amphibious species.
bioRxiv · Dec 5, 2022Evolutionary Biology