Grayling (Thymallinae) phylogeny within salmonids: complete mitochondrial DNA sequences of Thymallus arcticus and Thymallus thymallus

: Yasuike M, Jantzen S, Cooper GA, Leder E, Davidson WS, Koop BF

Publisher: WILEY-BLACKWELL PUBLISHING, INC

: 2010

: Journal of Fish Biology

: JOURNAL OF FISH BIOLOGY

: J FISH BIOL

: 2

: 76

: 2

: 395

: 400

: 6

: 0022-1112

DOI: https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1095-8649.2009.02494.x

The phylogenetic relationships among the three subfamilies (Salmoninae, Coregoninae and Thymallinae) in the Salmonidae have not been addressed extensively at the molecular level. In this study, the whole mitochondrial genomes of two Thymallinae species, Thymallus arcticus and Thymallus thymallus were sequenced, and the published mitochondrial genome sequences of other salmonids were used for Bayesian and maximum-likelihood phylogenetic analyses. These results support an ancestral Coregoninae, branching within the Salmonidae, with Thymallinae as the sister group to Salmoninae.