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SUBMITTER: Venkatesh B
PROVIDER: S-EPMC3964593 | biostudies-literature | 2014 Jan
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
Venkatesh Byrappa B Lee Alison P AP Ravi Vydianathan V Maurya Ashish K AK Lian Michelle M MM Swann Jeremy B JB Ohta Yuko Y Flajnik Martin F MF Sutoh Yoichi Y Kasahara Masanori M Hoon Shawn S Gangu Vamshidhar V Roy Scott W SW Irimia Manuel M Korzh Vladimir V Kondrychyn Igor I Lim Zhi Wei ZW Tay Boon-Hui BH Tohari Sumanty S Kong Kiat Whye KW Ho Shufen S Lorente-Galdos Belen B Quilez Javier J Marques-Bonet Tomas T Raney Brian J BJ Ingham Philip W PW Tay Alice A Hillier LaDeana W LW Minx Patrick P Boehm Thomas T Wilson Richard K RK Brenner Sydney S Warren Wesley C WC
Nature 20140101 7482
The emergence of jawed vertebrates (gnathostomes) from jawless vertebrates was accompanied by major morphological and physiological innovations, such as hinged jaws, paired fins and immunoglobulin-based adaptive immunity. Gnathostomes subsequently diverged into two groups, the cartilaginous fishes and the bony vertebrates. Here we report the whole-genome analysis of a cartilaginous fish, the elephant shark (Callorhinchus milii). We find that the C. milii genome is the slowest evolving of all kno ...[more]