Delson Hays

The paper challenges the hypothesis of multiple freshwater invasions in otophysan fish by showing that a single invasion is more likely, based on phylogenetic and biogeographic analyses.

The Vertebrate Genomes Project Phase I provides high-quality reference genomes for 816 species, enabling evolutionary and conservation insights across vertebrates.

The paper uses whole-genome phylogenomic and synteny data to resolve the evolutionary origin of flatfish body asymmetry, finding strong support for a single origin.

The paper uses genomic data to determine whether flatfish asymmetry evolved once or multiple times, finding strong support for a single origin.

The paper investigates the Siphamia-Photobacterium symbiosis, finding that temperate siphonfish hosts exclusively associate with P. mandapamensis, which exhibits genomic and phenotypic flexibility.