Consensus in Morphology and Molecular-Based Studies of Fish Phylogeny

Dear Colleagues,

The landmark 1996 book Interrelationships of Fishes, edited by Stiassny, Parenti, and Johnson, presented new hypotheses of phylogenetic relationships of major groups of jawed fishes based largely on morphological evidence, 23 years after the publication of another book of the same title, edited by Greenwood, Miles, and Patterson. Both books appeared at a time when studies of phylogenetic relationships of all groups of organisms were based on molecular systematic methods, primarily involving protein electrophoresis and DNA sequence data. Studies based on molecular systematic methods generally involved larger numbers of characters (allozyme loci or DNA nucleotide substitutions) than morphology-based methods. The results of these studies often conflicted with morphology-based studies of species inter-relationships. The disparity in data and discordance in results are even greater in today’s practice of genome-wide sequencing. This Special Issue of Fishes will feature papers on the emerging consensus on the hypotheses of the inter-relationships between fishes based on molecular and morphological data.

Prof. Dr. Henry L. Bart
Guest Editor

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• phylogenetic systematics
• fish morphology
• molecular phylogenetics
• next-generation sequencing
• discordance in results of molecular- and morphology-based studies of fish phylogeny