Actinopterygii (ray‐finned fishes) and E lasmobranchii (sharks, skates and rays) represent
more than half of today's vertebrate taxic diversity (approximately 33000 species) and form …

Classification of the tremendous diversity of ray-finned fishes (Actinopterygii) began with the
designation of taxonomic groups on the basis of morphological similarity. Starting in the late …

Dating the tree of life is a core endeavor in evolutionary biology. Rates of evolution are
fundamental to nearly every evolutionary model and process. Rates need dates. There is …

This review summarizes the achievements and novel perspectives that our fish
mitochondrial genome (mitogenome) project has brought to molecular phylogenetics and …

The Actinopterygii (ray-finned fishes) is the largest and most diverse vertebrate group, but
little is agreed about the timing of its early evolution. Estimates using mitochondrial genomic …

Background Freshwater harbors approximately 12,000 fish species accounting for 43% of
the diversity of all modern fish. A single ancestral lineage evolved into about two-thirds of …

Primordial germ cells (PGCs) are the only cells in develo** embryos with the potential to
transmit genetic information to the next generation. PGCs therefore have the potential to be …

Incongruence between different phylogenomic analyses is the main challenge faced by
phylogeneticists in the genomic era. To reduce incongruence, phylogenomic studies …

The order Acipenseriformes includes 25 extant sturgeon species and two extant paddlefish
species (eg, Birstein, 1993; Birstein and Bemis, 1997). Sturgeons and paddlefishes are …

According to Dollo's Law of irreversibility in evolution, a lost structure is usually considered
to be unable to reappear in evolution due to the accumulation over time of mutations in the …