Something else special about Mexico's endemic #vaquita porpoise Phocoena sinus: accelerated evolution in one of its hearing genes (prestin), associated with short-range high-frequency echolocation in complex cluttered coastal habitat.
@leticiamagpali et al link.springer.com/article/10.1186/s12864-024-10910-1
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