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ArticleScientific reports2016

Mitogenomic perspectives on the origin of Tibetan loaches and their adaptation to high altitude.

Ying Wang, Yanjun Shen, Chenguang Feng, Kai Zhao, Zhaobin Song, Yanping Zhang, Liandong Yang, Shunping He

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Article in Scientific reports, 2016. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 68 papers.

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68 citing papers in PubMed, 150 citations in OpenAlex.

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4 · The record

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5 · Who and what money

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8 authors at 4 institutions in 1 country.

Ying WangThe Key Laboratory of Aquatic Biodiversity and Conservation of Chinese Academy of Sciences, Institute of Hydrobiology, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Wuhan 430072, PR China.
Yanjun ShenThe Key Laboratory of Aquatic Biodiversity and Conservation of Chinese Academy of Sciences, Institute of Hydrobiology, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Wuhan 430072, PR China.
Chenguang FengUniversity of the Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing 100049, PR China.
Kai ZhaoKey Laboratory of Adaptation and Evolution of Plateau Biota, Northwest Institute of Plateau Biology, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Xining 810001, China.
Zhaobin SongSichuan Key Laboratory of Conservation Biology on Endangered Wildlife, College of Life Sciences, Sichuan University, Chengdu 610065, PR China.
Yanping ZhangGansu Key Laboratory of Cold Water Fishes Germplasm Resources and Genetics Breeding, Gansu Fishers Research Institute, Lanzhou 730030, PR China.
Liandong YangThe Key Laboratory of Aquatic Biodiversity and Conservation of Chinese Academy of Sciences, Institute of Hydrobiology, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Wuhan 430072, PR China.
Shunping HeThe Key Laboratory of Aquatic Biodiversity and Conservation of Chinese Academy of Sciences, Institute of Hydrobiology, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Wuhan 430072, PR China.
Institute of Hydrobiology · CNChinese Academy of Sciences · CNSichuan University · CNUniversity of Chinese Academy of Sciences · CN

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6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Tibetan loaches are the largest group of Tibetan fishes and are well adapted to the Tibetan Plateau. To investigate the origin of Tibetan loaches and their adaptations to the Tibetan Plateau, we determined 32 complete mitochondrial genomes that included 29 Tibetan loach species, two Barbatula species and Schistura longus. By combining these newly determined sequences with other previously published mitochondrial genomes, we assembled a large mitogenomic data set (11,433 bp) of 96 species in the superfamily Cobitoidea, to investigate the phylogenetic status of the genus Triplophysa. The resulting phylogeny strongly supported that the genus Triplophysa forms a monophyletic group within Nemacheilidae. Our molecular dating time suggests that the lineage leading to the Tibetan loaches and other loaches diverged approximately 23.5 Ma, which falls within the period of recent major uplifts of the Tibetan Plateau in the Early Miocene. Selection analyses revealed that the mitochondrial protein-coding genes of Tibetan loaches have larger ratios of nonsynonymous to synonymous substitutions than do those of non-Tibetan loaches, indicating that Tibetan loaches accumulated more nonsynonymous mutations than non-Tibetan loaches and exhibited rapid evolution. Two positively selected sites were identified in the ATP8 and ND1 genes.

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AltitudeAcclimatizationAnimalsCypriniformesDNA, MitochondrialEvolution, MolecularGenes, MitochondrialGenome, MitochondrialPhylogenySequence Analysis, DNASpecies SpecificityTibetDNA, Mitochondrial

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