Fish Karyotypes A Check List /

• Main Author: Arai, Ryoichi (Author)
• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Format: Electronic eBook
• Language: English
• Published: Tokyo : Springer Japan, 2011.
• Subjects: Life sciences.; Cell biology.; Molecular ecology.; Evolutionary biology.; Animal genetics.; Wildlife.; Fish.; Life Sciences.; Animal Genetics and Genomics.; Animal Systematics/Taxonomy/Biogeography.; Evolutionary Biology.; Fish & Wildlife Biology & Management.; Molecular Ecology.; Cell Biology.

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 pa...

Table of Contents:

• Preface
• Availability of fish karyotypes
• Fish vouchering and identification
• Classification of the extant fishes
• Historical transition of numbers of karyotyped species/subspecies
• Relationship between karyotype and genome size
• Database of karyotypes: How to use the database
• References
• Journal list
• Index.