As the largest group of extant vertebrates, fish offer an almost limitless number of striking examples of evolutionary adaptation to environmental and biotic selection pressure. The most diverse of all vertebrate groups, the higher taxa of fish traditionally have been classified by morphology and paleontology, with a much smaller input of cytogenetic information. DNA sequence data are exerting an increasingly strong influence on modern fish systematics, challenging the classification of numerous higher taxa ranging from genera to orders. The most fruitful approach, however, involves synthetic analyses of morphology, molecular phylogenetics, comparative karyology, and genome size. Karyotypes of more than 3400 species/subspecies are arranged here by fish systematics and include a list of genome size, sex chromosomes, B chromosomes, polyploidy, and locality of material fish, among others. This volume enables both beginners and advanced researchers to survey the existing literature and facilitates the implementation of an integrative approach to fish systematics. The first book on fish chromosomes in nearly 15 years, it is also the most comprehensive.
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Publisher
Springer Verlag, Japan
ISBN-13
9784431538769
eBay Product ID (ePID)
104097890
Product Key Features
Author
Ryoichi Arai
Publication Name
Fish Karyotypes: a Check List
Format
Hardcover
Language
English
Subject
Medicine, Geology, Zoology, Biology
Publication Year
2011
Type
Textbook
Number of Pages
340 Pages
Dimensions
Item Height
279mm
Item Width
210mm
Item Weight
1103g
Additional Product Features
Title_Author
Ryoichi Arai
Country/Region of Manufacture
Japan
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