Chi-Hing "Christina" Cheng has spent two decades studying the Antarctic notothenioids, which make up over 90 percent of the biomass of the Southern Ocean.

In Antarctic notothenioids, the evolution of AFGPs highlights a different pathway. Here, parts of an unrelated trypsinogen gene were co-opted, while a novel coding region evolved from a previously ...

A study, published in Nature Communications, sequenced the genomes of 24 Antarctic fish species. Their study revealed that these cold-resistant notothenioids split off from other species about 10. ...