The zebrafish is increasingly recognized as a model organism for translational research into
human neuropathology. The zebrafish brain exhibits fundamental resemblance with human …

Whole-genome duplication (WGD) events have shaped the history of many evolutionary
lineages. One such duplication has been implicated in the evolution of teleost fishes, by far …

Common carp (Cyprinus carpio) is an allotetraploid species derived from recent whole
genome duplication and provides a model to study polyploid genome evolution in …

Gene duplications provide evolutionary potentials for generating novel functions, while
polyploidization or whole genome duplication (WGD) doubles the chromosomes initially and …

Sea anemones are seemingly primitive animals that, along with corals, jellyfish, and hydras,
constitute the oldest eumetazoan phylum, the Cnidaria. Here, we report a comparative …

Abstract Lancelets ('amphioxus') are the modern survivors of an ancient chordate lineage,
with a fossil record dating back to the Cambrian period. Here we describe the structure and …

Teleosts comprise more than half of all vertebrate species and have adapted to a variety of
marine and freshwater habitats. Their genome evolution and diversification are important …

Sex determination can be robustly genetic, strongly environmental, or genetic subject to
environmental perturbation. The genetic basis of sex determination is unknown for zebrafish …

Teleost fish, which roughly make up half of the extant vertebrate species, exhibit an amazing
level of biodiversity affecting their morphology, ecology and behaviour as well as many other …

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 …