Ancient standing genetic variation facilitated the adaptive radiation of Lake Victoria cichlids.

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Cichlid fishes are textbook examples of explosive speciation and adaptive radiation, providing a great opportunity to understand how the genomic substrate yields extraordinary species diversity. Recently, we performed comparative genomic analyses of three Lake Victoria cichlids to reveal the genomic substrates underlying their rapid speciation and adaptation. We found that long divergent haplotypes derived from...

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