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The Adaptive Evolution of Polar Fishes: Lessons From the Function of Hemoproteins

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The perciform suborder Notothenioidei, mostly confined within Antarctic and sub-Antarctic waters, dominates the modern Southern Ocean ichthyofauna. Notothenioids probably appeared in the early Tertiary and began to diversify on the Antarctic shelf in the middle Tertiary, adapting to progressive cooling (Eastman 1993). Notothenioids are morphologically and ecologically diverse, and account for 77% of the shelf fish diversity, 92% of abundance and 91% of biomass (Eastman 2005). They are monophyletic (Balushkin 2000; Chen et al. 2003; Near et al. 2004).

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Part of the reviewed work is financially supported by the Italian National Programme for Antarctic Research (PNRA), is in the framework of the SCAR programme Evolution and Biodiversity in the Antarctic (EBA), of the Coordination Action for Research Activities on Life in Extreme Environments (CAREX), and is in the framework of the IPY core programmes EBA and Marine Fishes of North East Greenland (TUNU-MAFIG). DG and RR acknowledge CNR (for Short-Term Mobility fellowships) and CAREX (for Transfer of Knowledge grants).

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Verde, C., Giordano, D., Russo, R., Prisco, G.d. (2012). The Adaptive Evolution of Polar Fishes: Lessons From the Function of Hemoproteins. In: di Prisco, G., Verde, C. (eds) Adaptation and Evolution in Marine Environments, Volume 1. From Pole to Pole. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-27352-0_11

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