Antarctic biodiversity is much more extensive, ecologically diverse and biogeographically
structured than previously thought. Understanding of how this diversity is distributed in …

Species flocks are proliferations of closely-related species, usually after colonization of
depauperate habitat. These radiations are abundant on oceanic islands and in ancient …

The Loricariinae belong to the Neotropical mailed catfish family Loricariidae, the most
species-rich catfish family. Among loricariids, members of the Loricariinae are united by a …

The contribution of climate change to shifts in a species' geographic distribution is a critical
and often unresolved ecological question. Climate change in Antarctica is asymmetric, with …

The subfamily Potamotrygoninae, the only extant clade of elasmobranchs exclusive to
freshwater environments, encompasses four genera and 38 species distributed across …

There has been no comprehensive study of the bathymetry of notothenioid fishes. Therefore,
I analyzed minimum and maximum depths and depth ranges for 128 of 142 species that …

Background The importance of transposable elements (TEs) in the genomic remodeling and
chromosomal rearrangements that accompany lineage diversification in vertebrates remains …

Notothenioid fishes, a perciform group, radiated in the cold shelf waters around the Antarctic
continent and the 110 species dominate fish diversity, abundance, and biomass at levels …

The evolution of antifreeze glycoproteins has enabled notothenioid fish to flourish in the
freezing waters of the Southern Ocean. Whereas successful at the biodiversity level to life in …

The Antarctic marine environment, although rich in life, is predicted to experience rapid and
significant effects from climate change. Despite a revolution in the approaches used to …