First Chromosomal Analysis in Hepsetidae (Actinopterygii, Characiformes): Insights into Relationship between African and Neotropical Fish Groups

First Chromosomal Analysis in Hepsetidae (Actinopterygii, Characiformes): Insights into Relationship between African and Neotropical Fish Groups

Hepsetidae is a small fish family with only the genus Hepsetus, with six described species distributed throughout the South, Central and Western regions of Africa, showing a close relationship with the Alestidae and some Neotropical fish families. However, no cytogenetic information is available for...

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Main Authors: Pedro C. Carvalho, Ezequiel A. de Oliveira, Luiz A. C. Bertollo, Cassia F. Yano, Claudio Oliveira, Eva Decru, Oladele I. Jegede, Terumi Hatanaka, Thomas Liehr, Ahmed B. H. Al-Rikabi, Marcelo de B. Cioffi
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Frontiers Media S.A. 2017-12-01
Series:Frontiers in Genetics
Subjects:
fishes
molecular cytogenetics
chromosomal painting
comparative genomic hybridization (CGH)
karyotype evolution
Online Access:http://journal.frontiersin.org/article/10.3389/fgene.2017.00203/full

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