450 Million Years of Bony Fish Evolution: Where Do We Come From and Where Do We Go?
Abstract: The human lineage parted ways with the ray-finned fishes about 450 million years ago. Nevertheless, we still share a large amount of genetic and developmental programs with the ray-finned fishes and the many model species that particularly the teleost fishes provide. To improve our understanding of both fish and tetrapod including human evolution, we use comparative genomic and evolutionary-developmental approaches to reconstruct the last common ancestor of the bony fishes and develop the holostean fishes (gars and bowfins) as new model system for vertebrate comparative biology.
Speaker: Dr. Ingo Braasch, Associate Professor, Department of Integrative Biology, College of Natural Science, Michigan State University
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