Biodiversity Mechanism Better Understood

An understanding of how a mutation in a single gene during development not only changes the shape of skull and jaw but also can cause differences in feeding strategies to exploit the different ecological niches, find evolutionary biologists at the University of Massachusetts Amherst, in a study of how biodiversity arises. The study in the cichlid fish model by Yinan Hu, a doctoral student in organismic and evolutionary biology, with his advisor Craig Albertson, ...