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Evolution of miniaturization and the phylogenetic position of Paedocypris, comprising the world's smallest vertebrate.
BMC evolutionary biology - 13 Mar 2007
Rüber Lukas, Kottelat Maurice, Tan Heok Hui, Ng Peter K L, Britz Ralf
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BACKGROUND: Paedocypris, a highly developmentally truncated fish from peat swamp forests in Southeast Asia, comprises the world's smallest vertebrate. Although clearly a cyprinid fish, a hypothesis about its phylogenetic position among the subfamilies of this largest teleost family, with over 2400 species, does not exist. Here we present a phylogenetic analyses of 227 cypriniform taxa, including 213 cyprinids,...
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