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

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

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

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

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

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BMC Evolutionary Biology 2007, 7:44doi: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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Additional file 2:

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

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Additional file 3:

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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