Now moving to the anadromous charr

What is the ancestral state of Craniofacial morphology in Arctic charr?

And how variable are the putative ancestral populations?

Bones from anadromous
Pictured the 4 sympatric morphs

#Cilia are essential for early embryonic L-R patterning, but what about later? Tissue/time-specific cilia inhibition in mouse embryos reveals a cell-autonomous role for cilia in #NeuralCrest-mediated #craniofacial & body wall closure defects #PLOSBiology https://plos.io/3NqvcHn

Diversity in the internal functional feeding elements of sympatric morphs of Arctic charr (Salvelinus alpinus)
New version of Guðbjörg Jonsdottir manuscript on #BioRxiv

#Evolution #Morphology #sympatry #craniofacial
#Iceland #Thingvallavatn

https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2023.02.17.528955v2