“…Different classes of the 5S rRNA gene, identified in many fish species, varied by length, several nucleotide mutations or chromosomal location (Messias et al, 2003;Pinhal et al, 2008;Campo, Machado-Schiaffino, Horreo, & Garcia-Vazquez, 2009;He et al, 2012He et al, , 2013. Multi-class type 5S rDNA are considered an ancestral character that originated early in the history of vertebrates (Frederiksen, Cao, Lomholt, Levan, & Hallenberg, 1997).…”