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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