Prolonged morphological expansion of spiny-rayed fishes following the end-Cretaceous - Nature.com

7/14/2022 12:00:00 AM2 years 9 months ago
The authors construct a time-calibrated phylogeny spanning >90% of spiny-rayed fishes to explore patterns of body shape disparity within acanthomorphs. They find a trend of steady accumulation of lineages from the Cenozoic, with an increase in morphological d…