DNA metabarcoding of trawling bycatch reveals diversity and distribution patterns of sharks and rays in the central Tyrrhenian Sea

L Albonetti, G Maiello, A Cariani… - ICES Journal of …, 2023 - academic.oup.com
Conservation and management of chondrichthyans are becoming increasingly important, as
many species are particularly vulnerable to fishing activities, primarily as bycatch, which …

Are we there yet? Benchmarking low-coverage nanopore long-read sequencing for the assembling of mitochondrial genomes using the vulnerable silky shark …

JA Baeza, FJ García-De León - BMC genomics, 2022 - Springer
Background Whole mitochondrial genomes are quickly becoming markers of choice for the
exploration of within-species genealogical and among-species phylogenetic relationships …

Skimming for barcodes: rapid production of mitochondrial genome and nuclear ribosomal repeat reference markers through shallow shotgun sequencing

ML Hoban, J Whitney, AG Collins, C Meyer, KR Murphy… - PeerJ, 2022 - peerj.com
DNA barcoding is critical to conservation and biodiversity research, yet public reference
databases are incomplete. Existing barcode databases are biased toward cytochrome …

Characterization of mitochondrial genome of Indian Ocean blue-spotted maskray, Neotrygon indica and its phylogenetic relationship within Dasyatidae Family

A Pavan-Kumar, S Singh, A Mishra, S Suman… - International Journal of …, 2022 - Elsevier
The present study characterized complete mitochondrial genome of Blue-spotted maskray,
Neotrygon indica and studied the evolutionary relationship of the species within the …

New records of rare species in the Mediterranean Sea (October 2021)

This Collective Article presents information about 27 taxa belonging to five Phyla (one
Ochrophyta, one Cnidaria, three Arthropoda, two Mollusca and twenty Chordata) and …

Morphology and phylogenetic significance of the pelvic articular region in elasmobranchs (Chondrichthyes)

JPCB da Silva, DFB Vaz - Cladistics, 2023 - Wiley Online Library
The morphology of paired fins is commonly overlooked in morphological studies, particularly
the pelvic girdle and fins. Consequently, previous phylogenetic studies incorporating …

Evolutionary history and taxonomic reclassification of the critically endangered daggernose shark, a species endemic to the Western Atlantic

LF da Silva Rodrigues-Filho… - Journal of Zoological …, 2023 - Wiley Online Library
The family Carcharhinidae includes the most typical and recognizable sharks, although its
internal classification is the subject of extensive debate. In particular, the type genus …

A synoptic review of the cartilaginous fishes (Chondrichthyes: Holocephali, Elasmobranchii) from the Upper Jurassic Konservat-Lagerstätten of southern Germany …

E Villalobos-Segura, S Stumpf, J Türtscher… - Diversity, 2023 - mdpi.com
The Late Jurassic-Early Cretaceous (164–100 Ma) represents one of the main transitional
periods in life history. Recent studies unveiled a complex scenario in which abiotic and …

From historical expedition diaries to whole genome sequencing: a case study of the likely extinct Red Sea torpedo ray

A Palandačić, M Kapun, C Greve, T Schell… - Zoologica …, 2024 - Wiley Online Library
Abstract Torpedo rays (Torpedinidae, Torpediniformes) are small to moderately large
batoids that produce an electric discharge. They are distributed worldwide in temperate and …

Comparative chloroplast genome analyses of 23 species in Swertia L. (Gentianaceae) with implications for its phylogeny

L Yang, J Li, G Zhou - Frontiers in Genetics, 2022 - frontiersin.org
Swertia L. is a large genus in the family Gentianaceae. Different chloroplast gene segments
have been used to study systematic evolutionary relationships between species of Swertia …