拉蒂迈鱼(矛尾鱼) / Latimeria (coelacanth) My fleshy fins help investigate your deep family history—but lungfishes win the closest-living-fish-relative contest! 我肉质的鳍有助探索你遥远的家史——不过,最近的现生鱼类亲戚奖,要颁给肺鱼! Sources The African coelacanth genome provides insights into tetrapod evolution https://www.nature.com/articles/nature12027 Coelacanths illuminate deep-time evolution of cranial musculature in jawed vertebrates. https://doi.org/10.1126/sciadv.adt1576 Adaptive evolution of color vision of the Comoran coelacanth (Latimeria chalumnae). https://doi.org/10.1073/pnas.96.11.6279 Species reference https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Latimeria Research context Living coelacanths preserve a distinct lobe-finned-fish branch. Their fins and genomes help reconstruct sarcopterygian evolution; lungfishes, rather than coelacanths, are the closest living fish relatives of tetrapods.