Two species of antarctic icefishes (genus Champsocephalus) share a common genetic lesion leading to the loss of myoglobin expression

Species of the suborder Notothenioidei dominate the fish fauna of coastal Antarctic waters. Members of one notothenioid family, Channichthyidae (Antarctic icefishes), are unique among all vertebrates in lacking the circulating oxygen-binding protein hemoglobin. Icefish species also do not uniformly...

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