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Telemetry methods that allow low-cost, offshore tracking are required for the effective conservation and sustainable use of migratory fish in large lakes with vast and deep offshore areas. Surface drifting buo...
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Open AccessCorrection to: High-resolution flow simulation in Typhoon 21, 2018: massive loss of submerged macrophytes in Lake Biwa
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The global activities of typhoons and hurricanes are gradually changing, and these storms can drastically affect lake ecosystems through the recession of submerged macrophytes that regulate the water quality i...
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Open AccessStructure and variation of the mitochondrial genome of fishes
The mitochondrial (mt) genome has been used as an effective tool for phylogenetic and population genetic analyses in vertebrates. However, the structure and variability of the vertebrate mt genome are not well...
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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...