{
  "id": 8141882,
  "title": "Rapid evolution of cone identity and retinal topography in deep-water crater lake cichlids",
  "url": "https://urgent.news/2026/09/17/rapid-evolution-of-cone-identity-and-retinal-topography-in-deep-water",
  "topic": "science",
  "section": "Science",
  "published": "2026-09-17T00:00:00.000Z",
  "source": {
    "name": "bioRxiv",
    "slug": "biorxiv",
    "url": "https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.64898/2026.09.16.751957v1?rss=1"
  },
  "original_language": "en",
  "account": null,
  "summary": "Deep-water habitats have been colonized repeatedly by fishes, driving the evolution of visual systems under extremely low-light conditions. Here, we investigated visual adaptation in cichlids from the Barombi Mbo crater lake by comparing shallow- and deep-water species using retinal single-cell transcriptomics and analyses of retinal specializations. The shallow-water species Pungu maclareni…",
  "key_points": [],
  "editors_take": null,
  "illustration": null,
  "coverage": {
    "outlets": 1,
    "also_reported_by": []
  },
  "ai_generated": true,
  "disclaimer": "Summaries, key points and the editor’s take are written by software from other outlets’ reporting and may contain errors — always check the linked original."
}