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Kohji Mabuchi
Entomology
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Open AccessEvolutionary history of Otophysi (Teleostei), a major clade of the modern freshwater fishes: Pangaean origin and Mesozoic radiation
Freshwater harbors approximately 12,000 fish species accounting for 43% of the diversity of all modern fish. A single ancestral lineage evolved into about two-thirds of this enormous biodiversity (≈ 7900 spp.)...
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Open AccessMitogenomic evaluation of the historical biogeography of cichlids toward reliable dating of teleostean divergences
Recent advances in DNA sequencing and computation offer the opportunity for reliable estimates of divergence times between organisms based on molecular data. Bayesian estimations of divergence times that do no...
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Open AccessIndependent evolution of the specialized pharyngeal jaw apparatus in cichlid and labrid fishes
Fishes in the families Cichlidae and Labridae provide good probable examples of vertebrate adaptive radiations. Their spectacular trophic radiations have been widely assumed to be due to structural key innovat...
