Widespread loss of mammalian lineage and dietary diversity in the early Oligocene of Afro-Arabia

D de Vries, S Heritage, MR Borths, HM Sallam… - Communications …, 2021 - nature.com
… for widespread mammalianloss of Afro-Arabian rodent and primate lineages was associated
with a major reduction in molar occlusal topographic disparity, suggesting a correlated loss

Phylogenetic correlates of extinction risk in mammals: species in older lineages are not at greater risk

LD Verde Arregoitia… - Proceedings of the …, 2013 - royalsocietypublishing.org
lineage age, clade size, evolutionary distinctiveness and extinction risk for 3308 species of
terrestrial mammals. … Widespread threats like habitat loss, invasive species and overkill are …

A genomics approach reveals insights into the importance of gene losses for mammalian adaptations

V Sharma, N Hecker, JG Roscito, L Foerster… - Nature …, 2018 - nature.com
… is an evolutionary mechanism for adaptation that may be more widespread than previously
… gene losses that are specific to certain mammalian lineages. Then, we integrated these gene …

The evolution of mammalian gene families

JP Demuth, TD Bie, JE Stajich, N Cristianini, MW Hahn - PloS one, 2006 - journals.plos.org
mammalian lineage using a likelihood method that makes efficient use of genomic data in
a phylogenetic context [25]. Our statistical framework provides a basis for improved inferences …

Multifaceted diversity–area relationships reveal global hotspots of mammalian species, trait and lineage diversity

F Mazel, F Guilhaumon, N Mouquet… - Global ecology and …, 2014 - Wiley Online Library
widespread versus rare species in the computation of the diversity index. It gives progressively
more weight to widespread … For example, branches of major mammal lineages (eg bats, …

Mammal madness: is the mammal tree of life not yet resolved?

NM Foley, MS Springer… - … Transactions of the …, 2016 - royalsocietypublishing.org
… The mammalian fossil record extends deep into the Triassic (approx. 220 Ma) and records
the evolution of mammalian lineages … In part, these controversies stem from the widespread

Less is more in mammalian phylogenomics: AT-rich genes minimize tree conflicts and unravel the root of placental mammals

J Romiguier, V Ranwez, F Delsuc… - Molecular biology …, 2013 - academic.oup.com
… We show that in mammals most conflicts among gene trees, which have so far hampered
the resolution of the placental tree, are concentrated in the GC-rich regions of the genome. We …

Pan-African phylogeny of Mus (subgenus Nannomys) reveals one of the most successful mammal radiations in Africa

J Bryja, O Mikula, R Šumbera, Y Meheretu… - BMC Evolutionary …, 2014 - Springer
… reported so far in any mammalian lineage (eg [18]). Thus … mechanisms of sex determination
in mammals [19]. Recent … habitat) that is the most widespread in a particular MOTU (eg …

Phylogenetic trees and the future of mammalian biodiversity

TJ Davies, SA Fritz, R Grenyer… - Proceedings of the …, 2008 - National Acad Sciences
… among mammalian lineages and differences in threat intensity among regions. Phylogenetic
comparative analyses indicate that for small-bodied mammals, … to the widespread and rapid …

Cross-species transmission and differential fate of an endogenous retrovirus in three mammal lineages

X Zhuo, C Feschotte - PLoS pathogens, 2015 - journals.plos.org
… Since no substitution rate has yet been estimated for the pangolin lineage, we used the ‘average’
mammal neutral substitution rate of 2.2 × 10 −9 yr -1 [70] to infer the age of MPERV1 …