"Phylogenomic Systematics of Ostariophysan Fishes: Ultraconserved Eleme" by Prosanta Chakrabarty, Brant C. Faircloth et al.

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Title

Phylogenomic Systematics of Ostariophysan Fishes: Ultraconserved Elements Support the Surprising Non-Monophyly of Characiformes

Authors

Prosanta Chakrabarty, Museum of Natural Science and Department of Biological Sciences, Louisiana State University, 119 Foster Hall, Baton Rouge, LA 70803, USA.
Brant C. Faircloth, Museum of Natural Science and Department of Biological Sciences, Louisiana State University, 119 Foster Hall, Baton Rouge, LA 70803, USA.
Fernando Alda, Museum of Natural Science and Department of Biological Sciences, Louisiana State University, 119 Foster Hall, Baton Rouge, LA 70803, USA.
William B. Ludt, Museum of Natural Science and Department of Biological Sciences, Louisiana State University, 119 Foster Hall, Baton Rouge, LA 70803, USA.
Caleb D. Mcmahan, Museum of Natural Science and Department of Biological Sciences, Louisiana State University, 119 Foster Hall, Baton Rouge, LA 70803, USA.
Thomas J. Near, Department of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology, and Peabody Museum of Natural History, Yale University, New Haven, CT 06520, USA.
Alex Dornburg, North Carolina Museum of Natural Sciences, Raleigh, NC 27601, USA.
James S. Albert, Department of Biology, University of Louisiana, Lafayette, LA 70504, USA.

Document Type

Article

Publication Date

11-1-2017

Abstract

Ostariophysi is a superorder of bony fishes including more than 10,300 species in 1100 genera and 70 families. This superorder is traditionally divided into five major groups (orders): Gonorynchiformes (milkfishes and sandfishes), Cypriniformes (carps and minnows), Characiformes (tetras and their allies), Siluriformes (catfishes), and Gymnotiformes (electric knifefishes). Unambiguous resolution of the relationships among these lineages remains elusive, with previous molecular and morphological analyses failing to produce a consensus phylogeny. In this study, we use over 350 ultraconserved element (UCEs) loci comprising 5 million base pairs collected across 35 representative ostariophysan species to compile one of the most data-rich phylogenies of fishes to date. We use these data to infer higher level (interordinal) relationships among ostariophysan fishes, focusing on the monophyly of the Characiformes-one of the most contentiously debated groups in fish systematics. As with most previous molecular studies, we recover a non-monophyletic Characiformes with the two monophyletic suborders, Citharinoidei and Characoidei, more closely related to other ostariophysan clades than to each other. We also explore incongruence between results from different UCE data sets, issues of orthology, and the use of morphological characters in combination with our molecular data. [Conserved sequence; ichthyology; massively parallel sequencing; morphology; next-generation sequencing; UCEs.].

Publication Source (Journal or Book title)

Systematic biology

First Page

881

Last Page

895

Recommended Citation

Chakrabarty, P., Faircloth, B. C., Alda, F., Ludt, W. B., Mcmahan, C. D., Near, T. J., Dornburg, A., & Albert, J. S. (2017). Phylogenomic Systematics of Ostariophysan Fishes: Ultraconserved Elements Support the Surprising Non-Monophyly of Characiformes. Systematic biology, 66 (6), 881-895. https://doi.org/10.1093/sysbio/syx038

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