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An African turquoise killifish whose embryos can survive, on average, eight months of extreme dry conditions in their native habitat, and up to two years in lab experiments.the African turquoise killifish has developed a handy biological hack to survive months-long droughts that parch its muddy ponds each year.of these thumb-long fish just stop growing – not long after their brain and heart begin to form.
"Even though diapause evolved relatively recently, the genes that are specialized in diapause are really ancient,""We found that most of the genes that specialize for diapause in killifish are very ancient paralogs, which means that they were duplicated in the common ancestor of all vertebrates."
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