The discovery of a living coelacanth specimen in 1938 was remarkable, as this lineage of
lobe-finned fish was thought to have become extinct 70 million years ago. The modern …

A major challenge in biology is to explain why some groups have thousands or millions of
species whereas others have few. Here, I review the causes of this variation. New studies …

Since the first record of the five founder members of the group of Natterin proteins in the
venom of the medically significant fish Thalassophryne nattereri, new sequences have been …

The Ecology of Sulawesi is a comprehensive ecological survey of one of Indonesia's least
populated and most diverse islands. It is hoped that it will prove useful to resource …

Ancient, species-poor lineages persistently occur across the Tree of life. These lineages are
likely to contain unrecognized species diversity masked by the low rates of morphological …

Fishes are the first vertebrates, descendents of the early chordates* that evolved from
marine, deuterostome invertebrates. The extant lancelets and tunicates both marine and …

We determined the whole mitochondrial genome sequence for Indonesian coelacanth
Latimeria menadoensis. The genome content and organization were identical to that of …

The origin of tetrapods is a major outstanding issue in vertebrate phylogeny. Each of the
three possible principal hypotheses (coelacanth, lungfish, or neither being the sister group …

Anguillid eels have been believed to have a unique catadromous life history completed
within a particular ocean current system, and consequently to have extraordinary population …

We ask whether the observed mitochondrial DNA (mtDNA) population subdivision of
Drosophila simulans is indicative of organismal structure or of specific processes acting on …