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lifeskim:mentions
pubmed:issue
3
pubmed:dateCreated
1998-8-18
pubmed:abstractText
A solution to higher level mammalian phylogeny is going to depend on the congruent establishment of superordinal groupings followed by a linking together of these clades. We present congruent and convincing evidence from four disparate nuclear protein coding genes and from a tandem alignment of the 12S-16S mitochondrial region, for a superordinal clade of endemic African mammals that includes elephant shrews, aardvarks, golden mole, elephants, sirenians, and hyraxes. Because of strong support for golden mole as part of this clade, the Insectivora are rendered paraphyletic or polyphyletic, with constrained monophyly of the insectivores judged significantly worse in the vast majority of tests. Branching arrangement within this clade remains highly uncertain; however, a tandem alignment of the protein coding genes suggests elephant shrew is the earliest African lineage. None of the individual data sets or combinations of data sets support the widely held view of a mirorder Tethytheria (Sirenia/Proboscidea), although only a tandem alignment of protein coding and mitochondrial loci significantly rejects this association. The majority of the data sets and analyses provide strong support for Caviomorpha as part of a monophyletic Rodentia.
pubmed:language
eng
pubmed:journal
pubmed:citationSubset
IM
pubmed:chemical
pubmed:status
MEDLINE
pubmed:month
Jun
pubmed:issn
1055-7903
pubmed:author
pubmed:copyrightInfo
Copyright 1998 Academic Press.
pubmed:issnType
Print
pubmed:volume
9
pubmed:owner
NLM
pubmed:authorsComplete
Y
pubmed:pagination
501-8
pubmed:dateRevised
2010-11-18
pubmed:meshHeading
pubmed-meshheading:9667998-Africa, pubmed-meshheading:9667998-Animals, pubmed-meshheading:9667998-Aquaporin 2, pubmed-meshheading:9667998-Aquaporin 6, pubmed-meshheading:9667998-Aquaporins, pubmed-meshheading:9667998-Carnivora, pubmed-meshheading:9667998-Elephants, pubmed-meshheading:9667998-Evolution, Molecular, pubmed-meshheading:9667998-Humans, pubmed-meshheading:9667998-Hyraxes, pubmed-meshheading:9667998-Ion Channels, pubmed-meshheading:9667998-Likelihood Functions, pubmed-meshheading:9667998-Mammals, pubmed-meshheading:9667998-Models, Genetic, pubmed-meshheading:9667998-Moles, pubmed-meshheading:9667998-Phylogeny, pubmed-meshheading:9667998-Receptors, Adrenergic, alpha-2, pubmed-meshheading:9667998-Rodentia, pubmed-meshheading:9667998-Sequence Alignment, pubmed-meshheading:9667998-Xenarthra, pubmed-meshheading:9667998-von Willebrand Factor
pubmed:year
1998
pubmed:articleTitle
Highly congruent molecular support for a diverse superordinal clade of endemic African mammals.
pubmed:affiliation
Department of Biology and Biochemistry, Queen's University, 97 Lisburn Road, Belfast, Northern Ireland, BT9 7BL, United Kingdom.
pubmed:publicationType
Journal Article, Research Support, U.S. Gov't, Non-P.H.S., Research Support, Non-U.S. Gov't