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Robert Tropek @robtrop.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

New study published in @natecoevo.nature.com ! We assembled the largest global dataset of plant–pollinator networks to ask a simple question: do interactions become more specialised towards the tropics? doi.org/10.1038/s415... Study led by @saileesakhalkar.bsky.social and myself ☺️ 1/8

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FishEvo Zuzana Musilova @fishevo.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

Hot off the preprint: visual adaptations in crater-lake #cichlids revealed by single-cell RNA-seq of the retina. Deep-water species have mainly green cones that however differ from both green and red cones of the shallow-water species. Quite unexpected in such young adaptive radiation!😍

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FishEvo Zuzana Musilova @fishevo.bsky.social · 19/09/2026

Honoured to speak at International Congress of Retinal Proteins #ICRP2026 in Siena about our research on #deep-sea fish rhodopsins! I enjoyed week full of protein structure, function and physiology of a multitude of #rhodopsin types. Extremely inspiring and happy to meet old and new friends:-)

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FishEvo Zuzana Musilova @fishevo.bsky.social · 12/08/2026

85% solar #eclipse just before sunset. Lucky for almost no clouds🤗. Liberec, Czechia #astronomy

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Fabio Cortesi @drfishvis.bsky.social · 05/08/2026

Our recent publication on opsin gene evolution in aquatic and terrestrial blennies 🐠 made the cover in @biologyopen.bsky.social Read the story here journals.biologists.com/bio/article/... @fishevo.bsky.social

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FishEvo Zuzana Musilova @fishevo.bsky.social · 29/07/2026

Deep-water crater lake #cichlids lost red cones and kept only green cones in the #retina. We expected these #photoreceptors to be either true green- or modified red cones, but it seems that they’re sth in between! Wanna see more? Pls come to Pau’s poster P3.54 at #icn2026vancouver @neuroethology.org

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FishEvo Zuzana Musilova @fishevo.bsky.social · 29/07/2026

Whole-genome duplication changed vision in common barbel? YES! Blue+purple cones developmentally switch #opsin ohnologs (=> 1 in larvae, 1 in adult). In red+green sensitive cones - both ohnologs coexpress (=> wider spectral sensitivity). Please come to poster P2.35 to see more #icn2026vancouver

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FishEvo Zuzana Musilova @fishevo.bsky.social · 28/07/2026

Interested in weird and crazy #photoreceptor types - like “superrods” in some deep-sea fish?🤩 Happy to see you on Wednesday poster (PS3.45) session at #ICN2026 #ICN2026Vancouver @neuroethology.org

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Fabio Cortesi @drfishvis.bsky.social · 26/07/2026

Made it to @neuroethology.org #ICN2026Vancouver meeting! Let the neurosciencing in all sorts of animals begin 🧠🧬🔬 @fishevo.bsky.social @wensungceph.bsky.social

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FishEvo Zuzana Musilova @fishevo.bsky.social · 16/07/2026

We all know #mudskippers, the terrestrial gobies. But did you know that #blennies have evolved similar terrestrial strategy too? Pleasure to be part of the team checking their visual system:-)) #cool #fish 😍 journals.biologists.com/bio/article/...

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FishEvo Zuzana Musilova @fishevo.bsky.social · 08/06/2026

Go lamprey, go😍😍😍 (the stone is too heavy though:-)

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FishEvo Zuzana Musilova @fishevo.bsky.social · 01/06/2026

Spawning is here!!:-) European common minnows in nuptial colours. They can turn really 😍😍🤗🤗(Kamenice river near Semily, Czechia. #fish that #are #cool :-)

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FishEvo Zuzana Musilova @fishevo.bsky.social · 27/05/2026

European brook lamprey breeding season is currently on! Cool fish alert!😍 Soumarsky Most, Czechia #lamprey #spawning #fish

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FishEvo Zuzana Musilova @fishevo.bsky.social · 27/05/2026

Fishes of Lužnice 2026:-) Student field excursion to show Czech fish fauna. We got 19 species (15 native + 4 introduced) this year😍

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FishEvo Zuzana Musilova @fishevo.bsky.social · 03/05/2026

European pikeperch male guarding its nest made of a cleaned algae patch. Love is in the water😍😍 In the Thaya river, city of Breclav, Czechia.

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FishEvo Zuzana Musilova @fishevo.bsky.social · 23/03/2026

Insterested in #rhodopsins and #evolution? Looking for a #PhD? We're offering a PhD position combining both - and in deep-sea fish!:-) From protein to genes & evolution (and back). Deadline soon:-) Thanks for sharing! More info: www.fishevo.com/phd-position...

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FishEvo Zuzana Musilova @fishevo.bsky.social · 17/03/2026

We have three new PhD doctors in our group!😍😍😍 Last Monday, Monika, Gina and Dima defended their PhD theses. Wonderful day full of tropical fish evolution, fish hemoglobins and #fish vision! CONGRATULATIONS🥳🥳🥳 Thanks to everyone involved!!!

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Fabio Cortesi @drfishvis.bsky.social · 04/03/2026

Ops(es)in(g) in Prague with an amazing bunch of researchers @fishevo.bsky.social @joostraeymaekers.bsky.social l @emiliapsantos.bsky.social & Marta Barulenga :)

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HulloThere @jethroreading32.bsky.social · 25/12/2025

For our final day of #25DaysOfFishmas, we're going full weird. Today's bizarre, lonely little fish is the needlebeard seadevil, Neoceratias spinifer. This prickly little lady is the only member of the family Neoceratiidae, nestling within the larger deep-sea anglefish order Ceratoidei.

An illustration of a strange black fish on a white background. It has a big head with long, needle-like teeth emerging from its upper and lower lips, and the eye is very small. The fins have strange, branching rays, and a smaller, more traditionally-shaped fish hangs off its tail. Credit: Bertelsen via Fishes of Australia

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FishEvo Zuzana Musilova @fishevo.bsky.social · 17/12/2025

It’s this time of the year again! Merry #fishmas 😍😍😍

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FishEvo Zuzana Musilova @fishevo.bsky.social · 16/10/2025

#deepsea #fish cabinet! In the #evolution exposition of the National Museum of Natural History in Prague. It glows in the dark!!😍 (my primary goal was to see Lucy, the #Australopithecus, but that’s a no photo zone:-)

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Robert Tropek @robtrop.bsky.social · 10/10/2025

New preprint! “Climate-driven specialisation in plant–pollinator networks peaks outside the tropics” Testing the long-debated latitudinal specialisation gradient using >3,400 quantitative networks (>110,000 interactions). Led by @saileesakhalkar.bsky.social and myself ☺️ doi.org/10.1101/2025...

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FishEvo Zuzana Musilova @fishevo.bsky.social · 02/10/2025

Our Special issue on Visual Ecology in Challenging Environments is out: #coral reef & #deep-sea fishes, #reindeers on polar daylight, #bioluminescence, non-visual #pigments & life in dark caves. Happy to co-edit with Sara Stieb + thks to all contributors! See in Functional Ecology: buff.ly/z5AYxZQ

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FishEvo Zuzana Musilova @fishevo.bsky.social · 15/09/2025

So many diverse cory catfishes!!!😍 (no longer all in the Corydoras genus). Fascinatingly, their color mimicry evolved in parallel across different "cory" lineages. Spotted at the aquarium convention in Rychnov nad Kněžnou, Czechia 🐟🐟🐟.

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Charles University, Faculty of Science @sciencecharles.bsky.social · 27/08/2025

Nobel laureate 🏅 Prof. Victor Ambros visited Charles University’s Faculty of Science, giving a packed lecture on “Development timers in a tiny worm!” 🪱 followed by lively discussion 💬. A big day for science 🔬✨ 👉 1url.cz/TJV4P

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FishEvo Zuzana Musilova @fishevo.bsky.social · 22/08/2025

FishEvo team at the #eseb2025 congress! We presented research on barbel, sturgeons, cichlids and deep-sea fishes. What a cool meeting and an inspirative atmosphere! Thanks everyone!

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FishEvo Zuzana Musilova @fishevo.bsky.social · 22/08/2025

Excited to present our research on deep-sea fish vision at #eseb2025. Thanks everyone for coming to my talk!

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Jan Stundl @janstundl.bsky.social · 13/08/2025

Excited to announce that our new paper is now published in Science Advances 🚀🧠 ‘Acquisition of neural crest promoted thyroid evolution from chordate endostyle’ — check it out here: www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...

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Acquisition of neural crest promoted thyroid evolution from chordate endostyle

Integration of neural crest cells into the endostyle developmental program promoted its evolution into the thyroid gland.

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Jan Stundl @janstundl.bsky.social · 13/08/2025

Endless thanks to the incredible collaborators who brought this project to life—you’re the magic behind it all @dayyapparaja.bsky.social @urrutiahugo.bsky.social @jakeleyhr.bsky.social J.Stundlova, T. Solovieva, T. Haitina, S. Sanchez @fishevo.bsky.social M. Martik and my great boss Marianne Bronner

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Todd Oakley @ostratodd.bsky.social · 20/07/2025

I am happy to share a new review article, as part of a future special issue on vision in challenging environments, led by @fishevo.bsky.social and @drfishvis.bsky.social

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FishEvo Zuzana Musilova @fishevo.bsky.social · 30/06/2025

Pocket shark alert!:-) 😱😱😱 One of the gems found at a Taiwanese fish market: a tiny #lanternshark (Etmopterus). Some species mature at just ~20 cm - this one’s head was thumb-sized😍:) Deep sea never stops surprising:-) #DeepSea #shark💚💚💚

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FishEvo Zuzana Musilova @fishevo.bsky.social · 23/06/2025

We're hiring a postdoc!👀 Join us to explore the amazing world of (deep-sea) fish vision! We're looking for a curious researcher to work with histology, FISH, and even crispr! Apply by 14 July 2025. Thks for sharing! #PostdocJobs #DeepSea #FishVision #Evolution www.fishevo.com/open-postdoc...

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HulloThere @jethroreading32.bsky.social · 11/06/2025

i don't want it I JUST NEED IT TO BREATHE TO FEEL TO KNOW I'M ALIVE

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FishEvo Zuzana Musilova @fishevo.bsky.social · 10/06/2025

An amazing talk on mesophotic fish given by @kaithefishguy.bsky.social 😱 at #IPFC12 in Taiwan. So many new records for Australia from the deep(er) sea😍

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FishEvo Zuzana Musilova @fishevo.bsky.social · 02/06/2025

New review on deep-sea fish vision and the contribution of genomic and transcriptomic data. Part of the future special issue on vision in challenging environments in Functional Ecology:-). With @drfishvis.bsky.social in @funecology.bsky.social besjournals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...

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bioRxiv Evolutionary Biology @biorxiv-evobio.bsky.social · 06/03/2025

Seeing in the deep: evolution of the opsin gene expression in Bermin crater lake cichlids www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/202…

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FishEvo Zuzana Musilova @fishevo.bsky.social · 07/03/2025

New preprint! Evolution of vision in cichlids from the crater lake Bermin, Cameroon. A case of young adaptive radiation with species in the deep to see more red -unexpected and opposite to other deepwater groups. Thks to coauthors!😍 Look how cool is the fish:-) www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...

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FishEvo Zuzana Musilova @fishevo.bsky.social · 19/02/2025

Loving deep-sea fish and molecular evolution? We're hiring!:-) Looking for a motivated PhD student to join us to study evolution of vision & to explore limits of vertebrate eye in extreme environment. Deadline 15th March. Thanks for applying and sharing! more info: www.fishevo.com/erc-funded-p...

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FishEvo Zuzana Musilova @fishevo.bsky.social · 14/02/2025

How cute!! This female sea devil has just 1,5 cm 😱😱😱 Triggered by the recent fascinating spotings of Melanocetus in Tenerife (blue pics), I digged in our past sampling photos to show how monsterous they are even in a small size!😍😍😍 Blue photos: (c) Vida Marina Tenerife (M. M. Solà)

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FishEvo Zuzana Musilova @fishevo.bsky.social · 05/02/2025

When you buy an interactive kid book on the oceans - and you find the results of your research there (on how deep-sea fish see their world:-). That’s the real impact!:-) hope it gets translated in Eng eventually:-)

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časopis Vesmír @vesmir.bsky.social · 04/02/2025

Vychází únorový Vesmír. Tentokrát je hlavním tématem SKLO. Poznáte, co je na obálce? Dále mimo jiné: 🔹 rozhovor se Zuzanou Musilovou @fishevo.bsky.social 🔹 jihomoravská mikrorefugia, v nichž poslední dobu ledovou přečkaly i duby nebo jasany 🔹 LISA: okno do raného vesmíru vesmir.cz/cz/casopis/a...

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HulloThere @jethroreading32.bsky.social · 22/01/2025

On a related note to last night's rant, I dissected some elongate fangjaws (Sigmops elongatus) earlier this week. This species is a protandrous hermaphrodite - juveniles are male and become female later. Also, can confirm the teeth are v. sharp - I stabbed myself in the thumb and it hurt real bad!

A Sigmops elongatus fish laid flat against a dark background. The colour is black with a slight silvery sheen on the flanks. Large light organs, associated with pale, pearly masses are arranged in rows along the underside of the fish. The mouth is large and curved, with sparsely-spaced, sharp teeth. The eyes are quite small and wedged right up front in the snout. A scale card with mm intervals and the words "Fish Time" printed on it indicates this fish is about 20cm long.

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Lenka Vrtišková Nejezchlebová @lenislavka.bsky.social · 24/01/2025

Rybičko, proč máš tak velké oči? V PANTu v Ostravě jsme se se @fishevo.bsky.social ponořily v batyskafu do hlubin kolem tisíce metrů za beztrnovkama a spol, jednou dokonce až do 8836 za vůbec nejhlouběji zaznamenanou rybou. Skvělý otázky z publika,hezký reakce. Více v knize Zvířata v éře lidí...

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