Guido van den Thillart

TL;DR: It is shown that regulatory components of the venom secretory system may have evolved from a pancreatic origin and that venom toxin genes were co-opted by distinct genomic mechanisms, which provides insight into mechanisms of protein evolution under strong selection.

TL;DR: A novel adaptive mechanism to hypoxia is suggested, the induction of genes for lysosomal lipid trafficking and degradation, which may have important clinical implications in species tolerant for extremely low oxygen levels.

TL;DR: It is found that eels swim 4–6 times more efficiently than non-eel-like fish, removing a central objection to Schmidt's theory by showing that their energy reserves are, in principle, sufficient for the migration.

TL;DR: This Mini Review deals with the metabolic consequences of administration of the hormone cortisol on proteins, carbohydrates and lipids in teleost fish and shows that some effects are inconsistent.

TL;DR: It is shown that unlike any other teleost fish, the eel retains fully populated, duplicate Hox clusters, which originated at the teleost-specific genome duplication, and all copies are expressed in early embryos.