Publication

Genomes of the Orestias pupfish from the Andean Altiplano shed light on their evolutionary history and phylogenetic relationships within Cyprinodontiformes

Pamela Morales, Felipe Gajardo, Camilo Valdivieso, Moises A. Valladares, Alex Di Genova, Ariel Orellana, Rodrigo A. Gutierrez, Mauricio Gonzalez, Martin Montecino, Alejandro Maass, Marco A. Mendez, Miguel L. Allende

June 2024 BMC Genomics
Abstract

Study summary

We generated genome resources for three Orestias species from the Andean Altiplano and used them to reassess the position of this group within Cyprinodontiformes. The analysis shows that Orestias is more closely related to South American lineages than to Cyprinodontidae, and supports Orestiidae as the appropriate family-level placement.