十多年来，Anselfish Hybrids以及Pomacanthids可以重新混合遗传学的多种方式一直是我们最喜欢的礁石建筑商的写作主题之一。在大部分时间里，我们的稀有鱼编辑器Tea Yi Kaicontributed his fair share to the endeavour of documenting and trying to understand the hybrid crosses of tropical angelfish, but now he’s elevated the discourse with a scientific paper taking a specific look at this topic.
题为“伪装的天使”的论文深入了解了海洋缠结中的杂交发生，并对紧密相关的物种之间的已知杂交实例进行了全面的调查。已经记录了几乎一半已知的神伤物种，以互相杂交，总共at least42 species so far known to hybridize with conspecifics.
除了对从照片，水族馆爱好中知道的明显视觉中间杂种的调查和分析，从历史文献中，对两个良好不同的物种进行了遗传分析Paracentropyge.多与紫色的蒙面的戴着纱器，以及薄荷的神仙鱼是该属中的三个已知物种，并且已知前两个物种会产生非常引人注目的杂种，尽管很少。
This trio of high bodied, deeper living marine angelfish are ideal for this investigation because they are considered to be significantly divergent, and the holy peppermint angelfish is far removed both geographically and temporally. The molecular analysis of samples from the ‘putative’ hybrid multibar x venusta showed clear peaks of genetic markers from both parents, supporting the distinct intermediate color and pattern of the hybrid.
本文介绍了我们最喜欢的野生礁和水族馆的绑扎群中，缠绕杂交的遗传指纹，并且是使用现代分子工具实际上确认混合血统的少数几个人之一，而不仅仅是中间色的颜色模式。这项研究很清楚的原因是，多与维纳特（Venusta）的神仙鱼在数百万年前分歧Centropygepygmy angelfish are much more recent in their divergence, leading to much more similar nuclear and mitochondrial DNA making it much harder to resolve their parentage.
然而，远距离相关的海洋恋爱物种可以成功杂交有限制，其他研究表明“在线粒体差异的物种之间不会发生杂交超过10％”。这可以解释为什么我们还没有（尚未）看到燕尾与侏儒的gans饰之间的跨生物杂种，以及为什么我们从未见过Pygoplitesregal angelfish hybridize with anything else, since there’s only one species in the genus anyway.
This is a very exciting paper from our veteran rare fish editor Tea Yi Kai and we are excited to see where this line of investigation leads him and other researchers in the future. [Royal Society]
