Rapid and repeated evolution of pigmentation patterns in reef fishes
Overall, our findings illuminate factors that explain pigmentation pattern diversity in living reef fishes, revealing that speciation events have driven constant high levels of pigmentation pattern disparity within subclades and across globally variable reef fish assemblages.
Authors
- Alex. Dornburg
- Laurent Mittelheiser (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-1059-6736)
- Jennifer R. Hodge (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-1603-8559)
- A. Gillet (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-9763-6061)
- Bruno Frédérich (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-3438-0243)
- Vincent Laudet
Institutions
- University of North Carolina at Charlotte (US)
- Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (FR)
- Harvard University (US)
- Okinawa Institute of Science and Technology Graduate University (JP)
- University of Liège (BE)
- University of Manchester (GB)
- Institute of Cellular and Organismic Biology, Academia Sinica (TW)
- Life Cycle Engineering (United States) (US)
- Clemson University (US)
Publication Details
- Journal
- BMC Biology
- Published
- 2026-02-23
- DOI
- https://doi.org/10.1186/s12915-026-02544-4
- Primary Topic
- Developmental Biology and Gene Regulation
- Type
- article
- Field-Weighted Citation Impact
- 0.00
Funders
- Fonds De La Recherche Scientifique - FNRS
- Université de Liège