A study of the systematics of cyprinid fishes by two-dimensional gel electrophoresis

This study was carried out to shed light on confused subfamilial groupings in the Cyprinidae from the biochemical viewpoint at the molecular level, specifically by using two-dimensional gel electrophoresis of liver proteins. Six pairs of cypriniform fishes, which are different from one another at familial, subfamilial, generic, specific, subspecific, and individual levels, were compared. The genetic distances between pairs of fishes increased as taxonomic ranks of the pairs became higher, confirming the reliable usefulness of this technique. Four species representing the different subfamilies, Cyprininae, Gobioninae, Acheilognathinae, and Leuciscinae, were compared to give new insight into relationships at the subfamilial level. Cyprinus carpio (Cyprininae) and Pseudogobio esocinus esocinus (Gobioninae) gave the smallest genetic distance and the largest values were obtained between either one of the above species and Acheilognathus melanogaster (Acheilognathinae), suggesting that the former two subfamilies compose the most closely related group that is in turn distantly related to Acheilognathinae. Tribolodon hakonensis (Leuciscinae) had almost equal genetic distances to the three other species.     

Development of cytochrome b primers for mitotyping of barbels (Barbus spp.)

Primers were developed that allow for rapid, reliable and inexpensive screening of cytochrome b by analysis of single-stranded conformational polymorphisms. Twenty different haplotypes were identified from six species of Iberian Barbus. These primers proved useful for population and species level studies, and could also be valuable in population genetic and phylogenetic studies of other cyprinin fishes.     

鲤亚科鱼类的系统发育

鲤亚科是由原始的鲃亚科派生的一个单源群,因此,把鲤亚科各属筛选出的性状与纪亚科的相应性状比较,以确定其性质,即该性状为祖征,还是为离征。经比较,发现25项性状在鲤亚科的5个属中呈镶嵌分布。根据性状的镶嵌分布情况和简约性原则,推导出鲤亚科的属间系统发育分支图。以往的观点认为,鲃鲤属与原鲤属的关系较近。现在系统发育关系分析的结果与此全然不同,原鲤属与鲤属的关系较近,而纪鲤属在鲤亚科内是较早分化出的一支,与亚科内其他4个属的关系相对较远。最后,依化石资料分析了鲤亚科的分化时间。