Teleost fish, which roughly make up half of the extant vertebrate species, exhibit an amazing
level of biodiversity affecting their morphology, ecology and behaviour as well as many other …

Background Nuclear genome size varies 300 000-fold, whereas transcriptome size varies
merely 17-fold. In the largest genomes nearly all DNA is non-genic secondary DNA, mostly …

Transposable elements (TEs) are major components of vertebrate genomes, with major
roles in genome architecture and evolution. In order to characterize both common patterns …

Publisher Summary This chapter focuses on genomic size evolution in animals. There are
many ways of studying the evolution of genome. The chapter looks on the examination of …

The impact of transposable elements (TEs) on the evolution of the eukaryote genome has
been observed in a number of biological processes, such as the recruitment of the host's …

Comparative genomics has revealed that major vertebrate lineages contain quantitatively
and qualitatively different populations of retrotransposable elements and DNA transposons …

The ray-finned fishes ('fishes') vary widely in genome size, morphology and adaptations.
Teleosts, which comprise∼ 23,600 species, constitute> 99% of living fishes. The radiation of …

Numerous theories have been proposed to account for the pronounced differences in the
quantity of non-coding DNA among eukaryotic genomes, but the current repertoire remains …

Abstract Background The fish, Erythrinus erythrinus, shows an interpopulation diversity, with
four karyomorphs differing by chromosomal number, chromosomal morphology and …

Pseudogenes are considered as genomic fossils: disabled copies of functional genes that
were once active in the ancient genome. Recently, whole-genome computational …