Food adulteration is one of the most serious problems regarding food safety and quality
worldwide. Besides misleading consumers, it poses a considerable health risk associated …

Aquatic species have become an integral part of human culture. As an internationally
important food fish species, the common carp Cyprinus carpio accounted for over 7% of …

Teleost fishes are ancient tetraploids descended from an ancestral whole-genome
duplication that may have contributed to the impressive diversification of this clade. Whole …

Genome sequencing enables answering fundamental questions about the genetic basis of
adaptation, population structure and epigenetic mechanisms. Yet, we usually need a …

Protists, a highly diverse group of microscopic eukaryotic organisms distinct from fungi,
animals and plants, exert crucial roles within the earth's biosphere. However, the genomes …

Our ability to predict and assess how environmental changes such as pollution and climate
change affect components of the Earth's biome is of paramount importance. This need …

Hybridisation has traditionally been considered rare and unimportant in generating
biodiversity in the marine environment, particularly in coral reefs ecosystems. Here we …

The immune system is a complex and sophisticated biological system, spanning multiple
levels of complexity, from the molecular level to that of tissue. Our current understanding of …

The taxon Elasmobranchii (sharks and rays) contains one of the long-established
evolutionary lineages of vertebrates with a tantalizing collection of species occupying critical …

Developmental studies of sharks and rays (elasmobranchs) have provided much insight into
the process of morphological evolution of vertebrates. Although those studies are …