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Resolution of anglerfish phylogeny
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Anglerfishes radiated into the midnight zone during an ancient climate crisis
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Complex assembly of anglerfish sexual parasitism
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Complex innovations sculpted the ecological transition of bathypelagic anglerfishes |
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Major ecological transitions are thought to fuel diversification, but whether they are contingent on the evolution of certain traits called key innovations1
is unclear. Key innovations are routinely invoked to explain how lineages rapidly exploit new ecological opportunities. |
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