Independent rediploidization masks shared whole genome duplication in the sturgeon-paddlefish ancestor

AK Redmond, D Casey, MK Gundappa… - Nature …, 2023‏ - nature.com
Whole genome duplication (WGD) is a dramatic evolutionary event generating many new
genes and which may play a role in survival through mass extinctions. Paddlefish and …

Major issues in the origins of ray‐finned fish (A ctinopterygii) biodiversity

LC Sallan - Biological Reviews, 2014‏ - Wiley Online Library
Ray‐finned fishes (A ctinopterygii) dominate modern aquatic ecosystems and are
represented by over 32000 extant species. The vast majority of living actinopterygians are …

The early evolution of ray‐finned fishes

M Friedman - Palaeontology, 2015‏ - Wiley Online Library
Ray‐finned fishes (A ctinopterygii) constitute approximately half of all living vertebrate
species. A stable hypothesis of relationships among major modern lineages has emerged …

Phylogenetic classification of living and fossil ray-finned fishes (Actinopterygii)

TJ Near, CE Thacker - Bulletin of the Peabody Museum of Natural History, 2024‏ - BioOne
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 …

[HTML][HTML] Constraints on the timescale of animal evolutionary history

MJ Benton, PCJ Donoghue, RJ Asher, M Friedman… - 2015‏ - palaeo-electronica.org
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 …

Phylogenetic interrelationships of ginglymodian fishes (Actinopterygii: Neopterygii)

A López-Arbarello - PLoS One, 2012‏ - journals.plos.org
The Ginglymodi is one of the most common, though poorly understood groups of
neopterygians, which includes gars, macrosemiiforms, and “semionotiforms.” In particular …

The rise of predation in Jurassic lampreys

F Wu, P Janvier, C Zhang - nature communications, 2023‏ - nature.com
Lampreys, one of two living lineages of jawless vertebrates, are always intriguing for their
feeding behavior via the toothed suctorial disc and life cycle comprising the ammocoete …

Skeletal anatomy of the shortnose sturgeon, Acipenser brevirostrum Lesueur, 1818, and the systematics of sturgeons (Acipenseriformes, Acipenseridae)

EJ Hilton, L Grande, WE Bemis - Fieldiana Life and Earth Sciences, 2011‏ - BioOne
Sturgeons of the family Acipenseridae comprise 25 extant species, making it the most
species-rich extant family of basal (ie, nonteleostean) actinopterygians. Because of their …

Early Cretaceous polar biotas of Victoria, southeastern Australia—an overview of research to date

SF Poropat, SK Martin, AMP Tosolini… - Alcheringa: An …, 2018‏ - Taylor & Francis
Poropat, SF, Martin, SK, Tosolini, A.-MP, Wagstaff, BE, Bean, LB, Kear, BP, Vickers-Rich, P.
& Rich, TH, May 2018. Early Cretaceous polar biotas of Victoria, southeastern Australia—an …

Neopterygian phylogeny: the merger assay

A López-Arbarello, E Sferco - Royal Society open …, 2018‏ - royalsocietypublishing.org
The phylogenetic relationships of the recently described genus† Ticinolepis from the Middle
Triassic of the Monte San Giorgio are explored through cladistic analyses of the so far …