BMC Evolutionary Biology

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A practical approach to phylogenomics: the phylogeny of ray-finned fish (Actinopterygii) as a case study

Chenhong Li1*, Guillermo Ortí1, Gong Zhang2 and Guoqing Lu3*

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1 School of Biological Sciences, University of Nebraska, Lincoln, NE 68588, USA

2 Department of Mathematics, University of Nebraska, Omaha, NE 68182, USA

3 Department of Biology, University of Nebraska, Omaha, NE 68182, USA

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BMC Evolutionary Biology 2007, 7:44 doi:10.1186/1471-2148-7-44

Published: 20 March 2007

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Additional file 1:

Exon ID, exon length, GC content of predicted single nuclear gene markers in zebrafish and torafugu, as well the blast result between orthologous genes.

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Results of PCR amplification of 10 new makers in 36 species of ray-finned fishes.

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Maximum likelihood phylogeny based on protein sequences of individual genes, zic1, myh6, RYR3, Ptr, tbr1, ENC1, Gylt, SH3PX3, plagl2, and sreb2. Bootstrap value higher than 50% were mapped on branches.

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ML phylogenies based on protein sequences of individual genes and their out-paralogs found by relaxing our search criteria to include fragments with similarity < 50%.

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