Aquaculture is the fastest-growing farmed food sector and will soon become the primary
source of fish and shellfish for human diets. In contrast to crop and livestock production …

G protein-coupled receptors (GPCRs) are the most intensively studied drug targets, mostly
due to their substantial involvement in human pathophysiology and their pharmacological …

Sturgeons seem to be frozen in time. The archaic characteristics of this ancient fish lineage
place it in a key phylogenetic position at the base of the~ 30,000 modern teleost fish …

Whole‐genome duplications have occurred in the recent ancestors of many plants, fish, and
amphibians, resulting in a pervasiveness of paralogous loci and the potential for both …

Through phylogeny reconstruction we identified 49 genes with a single copy in man, mouse,
and chicken, one or two copies in the tetraploid frog Xenopus laevis, and two copies in …

Despite the importance of polyploidy and the increasing availability of new genomic data,
there remain important gaps in our knowledge of polyploid population genetics. These gaps …

High-throughput sequencing technologies have been extensively applied to genetics and
breeding in the aquaculture industry. To date, many aquaculture animal genomes have …

Whole genome duplication (leading to polyploidy) is widely accepted as an important
evolutionary force in plants, but it is less recognized as a driver of animal diversification …

Genome duplications may have played a role in the early stages of vertebrate evolution,
near the time of divergence of the lamprey lineage. Additional genome duplication …

Publisher Summary This chapter provides an outline of the methods used for classifying and
identifying polyploid animals, followed by a discussion of proposed explanations for its …