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SUBMITTER: Streelman JT
PROVIDER: S-EPMC1688541 | biostudies-other | 1997 Jul
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-other
Proceedings. Biological sciences 19970701 1384
Fifteen per cent of all living fishes are united in a single suborder (Labroidei) and display a dazzling array of behavioural and ecological traits. The labroids are considered monophyletic and members share a pharyngeal jaw apparatus (PJA) modified for crushing and processing prey. Outside of the explicitly functional PJA, there is no corroborative evidence for a monophyletic Labroidei. Here, we report the first molecular phylogenetic analysis of the suborder. Contrary to morphology-based phylo ...[more]