Adaptive cellular evolution in the intestinal tracts of hyperdiverse African cichlid fishes
Antoine Fages, Maëva Luxey, Fabrizia Ronco, Charlotte E. T. Huyghe, Sabrina Fischer, Gudrun Viktorin, P. Navaneeth Krishna Menon, Adrian Indermaur, Walter Salzburger, Patrick Tschopp
The paper uses single-cell transcriptomic data to study dietary adaptations in cichlid fish intestines, finding that anterior enterocytes drive evolutionary changes in gene expression and cell abundance.
Nature · May 13, 2026Peer-reviewedEvolutionary Biology