Order

Acipenseriformes

21 species in 2 families. Maximum lifespan ranges from 6 years (Little shovelnose sturgeon) to 152 years (Lake sturgeon).

Species

with a complete mtDNA

Lifespan range

6–152 yr

Longest: Lake sturgeon

Median GC

45.6%

Range 45.3–46.6%

Families

Largest: Acipenseridae (20)

The Acipenseriformes tree

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Outer ring: Maximum lifespan, log scale

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Families of Acipenseriformes

2 families, by species count

Where Acipenseriformes sit among 2,335 species

Whole-genome GC content against maximum lifespan. Hover or tap a point; select it again to open the species.

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Acipenseriformes (21)
Other species

Longest-lived

Top 5 and the shortest-lived

Lake sturgeonAcipenser fulvescens152 yr
Beluga sturgeonHuso huso118 yr
White sturgeonAcipenser transmontanus104 yr
Yangtze sturgeonAcipenser dabryanus100 yr
European sturgeonAcipenser sturio100 yr
Little shovelnose sturgeonPseudoscaphirhynchus hermanni6 yr

What tracks lifespan in Acipenseriformes

Top 10 of 197 mtDNA features by |ρ| · 43 with q < 0.05

mtDNA features most correlated with log10 maximum lifespan in Acipenseriformes (n = 21)
Feature	n	r	ρ	q	PIC r	Partial r
GGG codon frequency in all protein-coding genes (% of codons)Codon	21	+0.50	+0.60	0.080	+0.43	+0.38
GUG codon frequency in all protein-coding genes (% of codons)Codon	21	+0.47	+0.59	0.111	+0.76	+0.02
Homopolymer runs >= 5 bp in the whole mtDNA (count)	21	+0.57	+0.58	0.031 (significant)	+0.35	+0.56
Ala (A) frequency in all protein-coding genes (% of sense codons)Amino acid	21	−0.59	−0.58	0.026 (significant)	−0.52	−0.25
GCC codon frequency in all protein-coding genes (% of codons)Codon	21	−0.58	−0.57	0.028 (significant)	−0.65	−0.44
GGA codon frequency in all protein-coding genes (% of codons)Codon	21	−0.46	−0.55	0.127	−0.36	−0.31
ACU codon frequency in all protein-coding genes (% of codons)Codon	21	+0.70	+0.54	0.013 (significant)	+0.44	+0.60
Homopolymer runs >= 5 bp in the major arc (count)	20	+0.47	+0.52	0.126	+0.68	+0.70
Homopurine tracts >= 15 bp in the whole mtDNA (count)	21	+0.67	+0.51	0.013 (significant)	+0.78	+0.71
CCA codon frequency in all protein-coding genes (% of codons)Codon	21	−0.43	−0.51	0.154	−0.22	−0.65

Lifespan is log₁₀-transformed. r is the Pearson and ρ the Spearman rank correlation across species. q corrects the p-value for testing 197 features at once (Benjamini–Hochberg); green marks q < 0.05.

PIC r uses phylogenetically independent contrasts, so related species do not count as independent evidence. Partial r holds log₁₀ body mass constant, because big animals live longer. Bold values have p < 0.05. Select a feature to plot it against lifespan.

Species in Acipenseriformes

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Species in Acipenseriformes

Acipenser fulvescens	Lake sturgeon	Acipenseridae	152 yr	16,542 bp	45.82%
Huso huso	Beluga sturgeon	Acipenseridae	118 yr	16,760 bp	45.78%
Acipenser transmontanus	White sturgeon	Acipenseridae	104 yr	16,692 bp	45.84%
Acipenser dabryanus	Yangtze sturgeon	Acipenseridae	100 yr	16,438 bp	46.10%
Acipenser sturio	European sturgeon	Acipenseridae	100 yr	16,555 bp	45.46%
Scaphirhynchus albus	Pallid sturgeon	Acipenseridae	100 yr	16,494 bp	46.63%
Acipenser brevirostrum	Shortnose sturgeon	Acipenseridae	67 yr	16,680 bp	45.54%
Acipenser baerii	Siberian sturgeon	Acipenseridae	64 yr	16,763 bp	45.34%
Acipenser medirostris	Green sturgeon	Acipenseridae	60 yr	16,611 bp	45.47%
Acipenser oxyrinchus	Atlantic sturgeon	Acipenseridae	60 yr	16,565 bp	45.63%
Acipenser schrenckii	Amur sturgeon	Acipenseridae	60 yr	16,684 bp	45.80%
Huso dauricus	Kaluga	Acipenseridae	55 yr	16,691 bp	45.43%
Polyodon spathula	Mississippi paddlefish	Polyodontidae	55 yr	16,512 bp	45.42%
Acipenser ruthenus	Sterlet	Acipenseridae	46.1 yr	16,488 bp	45.52%
Acipenser gueldenstaedtii	Russian sturgeon	Acipenseridae	46 yr	16,594 bp	45.57%
Scaphirhynchus platorynchus	Shovelnose sturgeon	Acipenseridae	43 yr	16,495 bp	46.60%
Acipenser sinensis	Chinese sturgeon	Acipenseridae	33 yr	16,682 bp	45.44%
Acipenser nudiventris	Fringebarbel sturgeon	Acipenseridae	30 yr	16,543 bp	46.01%
Acipenser stellatus	Star sturgeon	Acipenseridae	27 yr	16,537 bp	46.01%
Pseudoscaphirhynchus kaufmanni	Amu Darya sturgeon	Acipenseridae	12 yr	16,597 bp	45.62%