Comprehensive phylogeny of ray-finned fishes (Actinopterygii) based on transcriptomic and genomic data

• DOI: 10.1073/pnas.1719358115
• Publication Date: 2018-05-14T19:20:33Z
• Authors: Lily C. Hughes; Guillermo Ortí; Yu Huang; Ying Sun; Carole C. Baldwin; Andrew W. Thompson; Dahiana Arcila; Ricardo Betancur-R.; Chenhong Li; Leandro Becker; Nicolás Bellora; Xiaomeng Zhao; Xiaofeng Li; Min Wang; Chao Fang; Bing Xie; Zhuocheng Zhou; Hai Huang; Songlin Chen; Byrappa Venkatesh; Qiong Shi
• Keywords: Actinopterygii

Significance Ray-finned fishes form the largest and most diverse group of vertebrates. Establishing their phylogenetic relationships is a critical step to explaining diversity. We compiled comparative genomic database that provides genome-scale support for previous results used it resolve further some contentious in fish phylogeny. A vetted set exon markers identified this study promising resource current sequencing approaches significantly increase genetic taxonomic coverage tree life all fishes. Our time-calibrated analysis suggests lineages living were already established Mesozoic Period, more than 65 million years ago.