The oceanic bathypelagic realm (1000 4000?m) is a nutrient-poor habitat. Most fishes living there have pelagic larvae using the rich waters of the upper 200?m. Morphological and behavioural specializations necessary to ...

We report the discovery of an enigmatic, small eel-like fish from a 35 m-deep fringing-reef cave in the western Pacific Ocean Republic of Palau that exhibits an unusual suite of morphological characters. Many of these ...

The use of high-throughput sequencing technologies to produce genome-scale data sets was expected to settle some long-standing controversies across the Tree of Life, particularly in areas where short branches occur at deep ...