A macroevolutionary common-garden experiment reveals differentially evolvable bone organization levels in slow arboreal mammals

F Alfieri, L Botton-Divet, J Wölfer, JA Nyakatura… - Communications …, 2023 - nature.com
… reconstructions based on bone morphology should include … Then, we adjusted the phylogeny
in order to accommodate our … Extinct sloth phylogenetic positions and times of divergence …

What is a mammalian omnivore? Insights into terrestrial mammalian diet diversity, body mass and evolution

DM Reuter, SSB Hopkins… - Proceedings of the …, 2023 - royalsocietypublishing.org
… type variation in macroevolutionary trends among the three … analyses, we used a fully
resolved set of phylogenetic trees … likelihood instead of Bayesian MCMC methods because of …

Uncertainty in divergence time estimation

T Carruthers, RW Scotland - Systematic Biology, 2021 - academic.oup.com
… of time-calibrated phylogenies to test specific hypotheses leads to inferences about
macroevolution … and methodological insights, and stimulated valuable discussion. However, when …

Femora Nutrient Foramina and Aerobic Capacity in Giant Extinct Xenarthrans

L Varela, PS Tambusso, RA Fariña - bioRxiv, 2023 - biorxiv.org
… , within sloths, several fossil forms also show 104 tendenciesanalysis we fitted a multivariate
OU model to the phylogeny … results provide important 438 insights that can be compared to …

A new method for integrating ecological niche modeling with phylogenetics to estimate ancestral distributions

WX Guillory, JL Brown - Systematic Biology, 2021 - academic.oup.com
… Modern historical biogeography methods generally … Macroevolutionary methods can be
used to investigate the … Mercier for insightful and helpful comments on the manuscript. WXG is …

Impacts of taxon-sampling schemes on Bayesian tip dating under the fossilized birth-death process

A Luo, C Zhang, QS Zhou, SYW Ho… - Systematic Biology, 2023 - academic.oup.com
… Our results provide general insights into the impacts of … of fossil phylogenetic positions was
evident in our core analyses where we … In reality, however, macroevolutionary processes are …

Sexual dimorphism in the fossil ground sloth Lestodon armatus (Xenarthra, Folivora)

L Varela, HG McDonald, R Fariña - Historical Biology, 2022 - Taylor & Francis
… Among xenarthrans, sloths show great morphological … data variability and univariate analyses
were also carried out … in anteaters and sloths (Xenarthra, Pilosa): phylogeny, metabolism, …

Early origins of divergent patterns of morphological evolution on the mammal and reptile stem-lineages

N Brocklehurst, DP Ford, RBJ Benson - Systematic Biology, 2022 - academic.oup.com
… large-scale macroevolutionary analyses. We present a new … We analyze a new phylogenetic
dataset of early amniotes, … , providing insights into macroevolutionary patterns during …

New well-preserved materials of Glossotherium chapadmalense (Xenarthra, Mylodontidae) from the Pliocene of Argentina shed light on the origin and evolution of …

A Boscaini, N Toledo, LM Pérez… - Journal of Vertebrate …, 2022 - Taylor & Francis
… Fossil remains of extinct mylodontine sloths have been … chapadmalense and some preliminary
insights into its postcranial … That being said, recent phylogenetic analyses included MLP …

… sloth Nothrotheriops (Xenarthra, Folivora) in the Late Pleistocene of Uruguay: new information on its dietary and habitat preferences based on stable isotope analysis

L Varela, PS Tambusso, HG McDonald… - Journal of Mammalian …, 2023 - Springer
Sloths represent one of the most successful South American … Recently, femora with
characteristic nothrothere morphology … Furthermore, we employ stable isotope analysis to explore …