The emergence of a new phylogeny of ray-finned fishes at the turn of the twenty-first century
marked a paradigm shift in understanding the evolutionary history of half of living …

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 …

The tree of life of fishes is in a state of flux because we still lack a comprehensive phylogeny
that includes all major groups. The situation is most critical for a large clade of spiny-finned …

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 …

Much progress has been achieved in disentangling evolutionary relationships among
species in the tree of life, but some taxonomic groups remain difficult to resolve despite …

The precise number of extant fish species remains to be determined. About 28,900 species
were listed in FishBase in 2005, but some experts feel that the final total may be …

One hundred and eighteen major groups of teleost fishes are recognized as monophyletic
on the basis of morphological synapomorphies. One hundred and twelve are formally …

Fishes of the order Cypriniformes are almost completely restricted to freshwater bodies and
number> 3400 species placed in 5 families, each with poorly defined subfamilies and/or …

The discovery of fluorescent proteins has revolutionized experimental biology. Whereas the
majority of fluorescent proteins have been identified from cnidarians, recently several …

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 …