Seahorses (Hippocampus spp.) are threatened as a result of habitat degradation and
overfishing. They have commercial value as traditional medicine, curio objects, and pets in …

The three-spined stickleback is a small teleost fish, native to coastal regions of the Northern
Hemisphere, which has emerged as a key model organism in evolutionary biology and …

The tree of life of fishes is in a state of flux because we still lack a comprehensive phylogeny
that includes all major groups. The situation is most critical for a large clade of spiny-finned …

Spiny-rayed fishes, or acanthomorphs, comprise nearly one-third of all living vertebrates.
Despite their dominant role in aquatic ecosystems, the evolutionary history and tempo of …

Background The mitochondrial (mt) genome has been used as an effective tool for
phylogenetic and population genetic analyses in vertebrates. However, the structure and …

Dating the tree of life is a core endeavor in evolutionary biology. Rates of evolution are
fundamental to nearly every evolutionary model and process. Rates need dates. There is …

Spiny-rayed fishes (Acanthomorpha) dominate modern marine habitats and account for
more than a quarter of all living vertebrate species. Previous time-calibrated phylogenies …

Transposable elements (TEs) are genomic sequences that can move, multiply, and often
form sizable fractions of vertebrate genomes. Fish belong to a unique group of vertebrates …

The significance of whole-genome duplications (WGD) for vertebrate evolution remains
controversial, in part because the mechanisms by which WGD contributed to functional …

Few marine taxa have been comprehensively assessed for their conservation status, despite
heavy pressures from fishing, habitat degradation and climate change. Here we report on …