Verd Lab

University of Oxford

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ERC Starting Grant · 2024

Evolving increased vertebral counts: Developmental mechanisms underpinning phenotypic evolution in the Lake Malawi cichlid radiation.

One of the fundamental and most longstanding questions in biology is how phenotypes evolve to generate the incredible diversity of forms that surround us in the natural world. Vertebrate body shape is a good example of this, with species’ forms ranging from the rounded ocean sunfish to elongated snakes, and everything in between. The evolution of vertebrate body shapes has been accompanied by significant variation to the axial skeleton and the vertebrae that compose it, which can vary in size and morphology, but crucially also in number, ranging from less than 10 to several hundred. In COUNTS I propose an inter-disciplinary approach to uncover the developmental drivers of phenotypic…

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