The pattern recognition receptor (PRR), which drives innate immunity, shields the host
against invasive pathogens. Fish and other aquatic species with poorly developed adaptive …

Adaptive evolution is a process in which variation that confers an evolutionary advantage in
a specific environmental context arises and is propagated through a population. When …

Background The invasive benthic round goby (Neogobius melanostomus) is the most
successful temperate invasive fish and has spread in aquatic ecosystems on both sides of …

The Atlantic cod's unusual immune system, entirely lacking the Major Histocompatibility
class II pathway, has prompted intriguing questions about what mechanisms are used to …

The complement system comprises a large family of plasma proteins that play a central role
in innate and adaptive immunity. To better understand the evolution of the complement …

Chondrichthyes (cartilaginous fishes) are fundamental for understanding vertebrate
evolution, yet their genomes are understudied. We report long-read sequencing of the whale …

In contrast to other teleosts, Atlantic cod (Gadus morhua) has an expanded repertoire of
MHC-I and TLR components, but lacks the MHC-II, the invariant chain/CD74, and CD4+ T …

With 289 known species in 51 genera, the ophidiiform family Ophidiidae together with their
relatives from the Carapidae (36 species in eight genera) of the same suborder Ophidioidei …

Whole-genome duplication (WGD) has been a major evolutionary driver of increased
genomic complexity in vertebrates. One such event occurred in the salmonid family∼ 80 Ma …

As a promising novel marine fish model for future research on marine ecotoxicology as well
as an animal model of human disease, the genome information of yellowstripe goby …