Flexibility of life to survive limitations: oral disc forms in the Tashan Cave barb Garra tashanensis

• Published in: Environmental biology of fishes Vol. 106; no. 11; pp. 2083 - 2092
• Main Authors: Hashemzadeh Segherloo, Iraj, Najafi Chaloshtory, Sajad, Yasser, Amaal Gh, Naser, Murtada D., Normandeau, Eric, Mashtizadeh, Amirhossein, Elmi, Amirmohammad, Sedighi, Omid, Changizi, Alieh, Hallerman, Eric, Bernatchez, Louis
• Format: Journal Article
• Language: English
• Published: Dordrecht Springer Netherlands 01.11.2023; Springer Nature B.V
• Subjects: Animal Systematics/Taxonomy/Biogeography; Biodiversity; Biomedical and Life Sciences; Caves; Coexistence; Competitors; Differentiation; Ecological effects; Environment; Fish; Fishing; Freshwater & Marine Ecology; Garra; Genetic analysis; Genetic structure; genetic variation; Genomes; genomics; Genotype & phenotype; Genotyping; genotyping by sequencing; Iran; Life Sciences; Mitochondrial DNA; Morphology; morphs; Nature Conservation; nuclear genome; Population; Predators; Reproductive isolation; Speciation; Survival; Sympatric populations; sympatric speciation; Taxonomy; Zoology; Iran; Character release; Tashan Cave barb; Genome; Relaxed selection; Radiation

In this study, we analyzed nuclear DNA (nDNA) variation by means of genotyping-by-sequencing (GBS) of three disc-bearing and seven non-disc-bearing Garra tashanensis from the Tashan Cave in Iran to clarify their systematic and ecological relationships. We performed genetic differentiation, NeighborN...