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Grayling (Thymallinae) phylogeny within salmonids: complete mitochondrial DNA sequences of Thymallus arcticus and Thymallus thymallus
Author(s) -
Yasuike M.,
Jantzen S.,
Cooper G. A.,
Leder E.,
Davidson W. S.,
Koop B. F.
Publication year - 2010
Publication title -
journal of fish biology
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.672
H-Index - 115
eISSN - 1095-8649
pISSN - 0022-1112
DOI - 10.1111/j.1095-8649.2009.02494.x
Subject(s) - biology , grayling , mitochondrial dna , salmonidae , phylogenetic tree , sister group , phylogenetics , zoology , ecology , evolutionary biology , clade , genetics , fishery , salmo , fish <actinopterygii> , gene , arctic
The phylogenetic relationships among the three subfamilies (Salmoninae, Coregoninae and Thymallinae) in the Salmonidae have not been addressed extensively at the molecular level. In this study, the whole mitochondrial genomes of two Thymallinae species, Thymallus arcticus and Thymallus thymallus were sequenced, and the published mitochondrial genome sequences of other salmonids were used for Bayesian and maximum‐likelihood phylogenetic analyses. These results support an ancestral Coregoninae, branching within the Salmonidae, with Thymallinae as the sister group to Salmoninae.