The Adaptive Radiation of Notothenioid Fishes in the Waters of Antarctica

• Main Authors: Michael Matschiner, Colombo, Marco, Damerau, Malte, Ceballos, Santiago Guillermo, Hanel, Reinhold, Salzburger, Walter
• Other Authors: Riesch, Rüdiger, Tobler, Michael, Plath, Martin
• Format: Book Part
• Language: English
• Published: Springer Nature Switzerland AG
• Subjects: ANTARCTICA; NOTOTHENIOID; EXTREMOPHILE; FISHES; https://purl.org/becyt/ford/1.6; https://purl.org/becyt/ford/1; Antarctic; The Antarctic; Austral; Argentina; Colombo; Antarc*; Antarctica; Sea ice
• Online Access: http://hdl.handle.net/11336/140893

Fishes of the perciform suborder Notothenioidei, which dominate theichthyofauna in the freezing waters surrounding the Antarctic continent, representone of the prime examples of adaptive radiation in a marine environment. Driven byunique adaptations, such as antifreeze glycoproteins that lower their...