Xuzhen Wang

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: Analysis of the RAG2 gene supported the following cyprinid molecular phylogeny: the Danioninae is the most basal subfamily within the family Cyprinidae and the CyPRininaes is the sister group of the Leuciscinae, and the divergence times were estimated for the nodes corresponding to the principal clades within the Cy Prinidae.

TL;DR: In this early synthesis of the understanding of the phylogenetic relationships of Cypriniformes, all types of data have contributed historically to improving the understanding, but not all analyses are complementary in taxon sampling, thus precluding directUnderstanding of the impact ofTaxon sampling on achieving accurate phylogenetic inferences.

TL;DR: Comparisons of the parsimony and Bayesian analyses and results of variable length bootstrap analysis indicates that the mitochondrial 16S rRNA gene should contain important character variation to recover well-supported phylogeny of cyprinid taxa whose divergences occurred within the recent 8 MY, but could not provide resolution power for deep phylogenies spanning 10-19 MYA.

TL;DR: Bayesian analysis of 12 concatenated mitochondrial protein sequences for O. bidens and 46 other teleostean taxa supports the monophyly of Cypriniformes and Otophysi and results in a robust estimate of the otophysan phylogeny.