Animal mitochondrial genomes

JL Boore - Nucleic acids research, 1999 - academic.oup.com
Animal mitochondrial DNA is a small, extrachromosomal genome, typically∼ 16 kb in size.
With few exceptions, all animal mitochondrial genomes contain the same 37 genes: two for …

A review of the application of molecular genetics for fisheries management and conservation of sharks and rays

CL Dudgeon, DC Blower, D Broderick… - Journal of fish …, 2012 - Wiley Online Library
Since the first investigation 25 years ago, the application of genetic tools to address
ecological and evolutionary questions in elasmobranch studies has greatly expanded. Major …

Biology of sharks and their relatives

JC Carrier, CA Simpfendorfer, MR Heithaus, KE Yopak - 2022 - books.google.com
Biology of Sharks and Their Relatives is an award-winning and groundbreaking exploration
of the fundamental elements of the taxonomy, systematics, physiology, and ecology of …

Mitogenomics: digging deeper with complete mitochondrial genomes

JP Curole, TD Kocher - Trends in Ecology & Evolution, 1999 - cell.com
Mitochondrial genomes are being used to study increasingly ancient divergences among
animal groups. Recent studies of complete mitochondrial DNA sequences have arrived at …

Mitogenomic exploration of higher teleostean phylogenies: a case study for moderate-scale evolutionary genomics with 38 newly determined complete mitochondrial …

M Miya, A Kawaguchi, M Nishida - Molecular Biology and …, 2001 - academic.oup.com
Although adequate resolution of higher-level relationships of organisms apparently requires
longer DNA sequences than those currently being analyzed, limitations of time and …

Use of mitogenomic information in teleostean molecular phylogenetics: a tree-based exploration under the maximum-parsimony optimality criterion

M Miya, M Nishida - Molecular Phylogenetics and Evolution, 2000 - Elsevier
We explored the phylogenetic utility and limits of the individual and concatenated
mitochondrial genes for reconstructing the higher-level relationships of teleosts, using the …

Molecular phylogeny and divergence times of deuterostome animals

JE Blair, SB Hedges - Molecular biology and evolution, 2005 - academic.oup.com
The phylogenetic relationships among deuterostome animals have been debated for many
years, and a diversity of hypotheses have been proposed based on both morphological and …

Phylogenetic relationships among cetartiodactyls based on insertions of short and long interpersed elements: hippopotamuses are the closest extant relatives of …

M Nikaido, AP Rooney… - Proceedings of the …, 1999 - National Acad Sciences
Insertion analysis of short and long interspersed elements is a powerful method for
phylogenetic inference. In a previous study of short interspersed element data, it was found …

Basal actinopterygian relationships: a mitogenomic perspective on the phylogeny of the “ancient fish”

JG Inoue, M Miya, K Tsukamoto, M Nishida - Molecular phylogenetics and …, 2003 - Elsevier
The basal actinopterygians comprise four major lineages (polypteriforms, acipenseriforms,
lepisosteids, and Amia) and have been collectively called “ancient fish.” We investigated the …

Population genetic structure of Earth's largest fish, the whale shark (Rhincodon typus)

ALF Castro, BS Stewart, SG Wilson… - Molecular …, 2007 - Wiley Online Library
Large pelagic vertebrates pose special conservation challenges because their movements
generally exceed the boundaries of any single jurisdiction. To assess the population …