Early Partitioning of Structural Paralog Diversity Shapes Immune Evolution Across Habitat Transitions in Gobiiform Fishes
Katerina L. Zapfe, Ian Birchler De Allende, Aditt Mahadik…·Alex Dornburg
The paper investigates the evolutionary history of Toll-like receptors in Gobiiformes, showing that early paralog diversification of TLR22 predates ecological transitions and enables functional tuning without major architectural changes.