Evolutionary history of anglerfishes (Teleostei: Lophiiformes): a mitogenomic perspective.

ABSTRACT:

Background

The teleost order Lophiiformes, commonly known as the anglerfishes, contains a diverse array of marine fishes, ranging from benthic shallow-water dwellers to highly modified deep-sea midwater species. They comprise 321 living species placed in 68 genera, 18 families and 5 suborders, but approximately half of the species diversity is occupied by deep-sea ceratioids distributed among 11 families. The evolutionary origins of such remarkable habitat and species diversity, however, remain elusive because of the lack of fresh material for a majority of the deep-sea ceratioids and incompleteness of the fossil record across all of the Lophiiformes. To obtain a comprehensive picture of the phylogeny and evolutionary history of the anglerfishes, we assembled whole mitochondrial ge

SUBMITTER: Miya M 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC2836326 | biostudies-literature | 2010 Feb

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature