Kenji Saitoh

TL;DR: Takashi Asahida, Takanori Kobayashi,*2 Kenji Saitoh,*3 and Ichiro Nakayama*4 .

TL;DR: The present study represents the first attempt toward resolution of the higher-level relationships of the world’s largest freshwater-fish clade based on whole mitochondrial genome sequences from 53 cypriniforms plus 6 outgroups, and it is advocated that RY-coding, which takes only transversions into account, effectively removes this likely “noise” from the data set and avoids the apparent lack of signal by retaining all available positions in the dataSet.

TL;DR: The hexaploid African Labeobarbus & allies and Western Asian Capoeta are likely derived from two independent hybridization events between their respective maternal tetraploid ancestors and Cyprinion.

TL;DR: A variety of SNP discovery and genotyping studies in ecology and evolution are summarized and the most efficient approaches to SNP discovery will depend on the research questions that the markers are to resolve as well as the focal species.

TL;DR: This study reports the complete mitochondrial DNA sequences for eleven ostariophysan fishes and the results of phylogenetic analyses including these species plus four other ostariophysicalan and nine non-ostariophysans teleostean fishes, and suggests a Pangean origin of otophysans.