Tol2 transposon-mediated transgenesis in the Midas cichlid (Amphilophus citrinellus) — towards understanding gene function and regulatory evolution in an ecological model system for rapid phenotypic diversification

Tol2 transposon-mediated transgenesis in the Midas cichlid (Amphilophus citrinellus) — towards understanding gene function and regulatory evolution in an ecological model system for rapid phenotypic diversification

Abstract Background The Midas cichlid species complex (Amphilophus spp.) is widely known among evolutionary biologists as a model system for sympatric speciation and adaptive phenotypic divergence within extremely short periods of time (a few hundred generations). The repeated parallel evolution of...

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Main Authors: Claudius F. Kratochwil, Maggie M. Sefton, Yipeng Liang, Axel Meyer
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: BMC 2017-11-01
Series:BMC Developmental Biology
Subjects:
Transgenesis
Gene function
Transcriptional regulation
Cichlidae
Amphilophus citrinellus
Adaptive radiation
Online Access:http://link.springer.com/article/10.1186/s12861-017-0157-x

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