Research article

Did genome duplication drive the origin of teleosts? A comparative study of diversification in ray-finned fishes

Francesco Santini¹, Luke J Harmon², Giorgio Carnevale^3,⁴ and Michael E Alfaro¹^*

¹ Department of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology, University of California at Los Angeles, 651 Charles Young Dr. South, Los Angeles, CA 90095, USA

² Department of Biology, University of Idaho, Moscow, ID 83844, USA

³ Dipartimento di Scienze della Terra, Universitá di Pisa, Via Santa Maria 53, 56126 Pisa, Italy

⁴ Museo di Storia Naturale e del Territorio, Via Roma 79, 56011, Calci, Italy

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BMC Evolutionary Biology 2009, 9:194 doi:10.1186/1471-2148-9-194

Published: 8 August 2009

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Description of MEDUSA.

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Additional file 2:

GenBank accession numbers of sequences used in this study.

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Description of timetree calibration points.

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