The evolution of dinosaurs

PC Sereno - Science, 1999 - science.org
The ascendancy of dinosaurs on land near the close of the Triassic now appears to have
been as accidental and opportunistic as their demise and replacement by therian mammals …

Molecules consolidate the placental mammal tree

MS Springer, MJ Stanhope, O Madsen… - Trends in ecology & …, 2004 - cell.com
Deciphering relationships among the orders of placental mammals remains an important
problem in evolutionary biology and has implications for understanding patterns of …

[PDF][PDF] 中国兽类名录(2021 版)

魏辅文, 杨奇森, 吴毅, 蒋学龙, 刘少英, 李保国, 杨光… - 2021 - ir.ioz.ac.cn
中国是全球兽类物种多样性最高的国家之一, 掌握我国兽类物种多样性和分类地位是兽类学研究
的基础前提, 也是科学保护野生种群的前提. 为厘清中国兽类的物种数量及分类地位等关键分类 …

The placental mammal ancestor and the post–K-Pg radiation of placentals

MA O'Leary, JI Bloch, JJ Flynn, TJ Gaudin… - science, 2013 - science.org
To discover interordinal relationships of living and fossil placental mammals and the time of
origin of placentals relative to the Cretaceous-Paleogene (K-Pg) boundary, we scored 4541 …

[HTML][HTML] Pattern and timing of diversification of Cetartiodactyla (Mammalia, Laurasiatheria), as revealed by a comprehensive analysis of mitochondrial genomes

A Hassanin, F Delsuc, A Ropiquet, C Hammer… - Comptes rendus …, 2012 - Elsevier
The order Cetartiodactyla includes cetaceans (whales, dolphins and porpoises) that are
found in all oceans and seas, as well as in some rivers, and artiodactyls (ruminants, pigs …

Resolution of the early placental mammal radiation using Bayesian phylogenetics

WJ Murphy, E Eizirik, SJ O'Brien, O Madsen, M Scally… - Science, 2001 - science.org
Molecular phylogenetic studies have resolved placental mammals into four major groups,
but have not established the full hierarchy of interordinal relationships, including the position …

Riqueza, endemismo y conservación de los mamíferos de Colombia

S Solari, Y Muñoz-Saba… - Mastozoología …, 2013 - SciELO Argentina
Se actualiza la diversidad de especies de mamíferos de Colombia con base en una nueva
revisión de especímenes en las mayores colecciones del país y el extranjero y la …

Resolving conflict in eutherian mammal phylogeny using phylogenomics and the multispecies coalescent model

S Song, L Liu, SV Edwards… - Proceedings of the …, 2012 - National Acad Sciences
The reconstruction of the Tree of Life has relied almost entirely on concatenation methods,
which do not accommodate gene tree heterogeneity, a property that simulations and theory …

[HTML][HTML] Constraints on the timescale of animal evolutionary history

MJ Benton, PCJ Donoghue, RJ Asher, M Friedman… - 2015 - palaeo-electronica.org
Dating the tree of life is a core endeavor in evolutionary biology. Rates of evolution are
fundamental to nearly every evolutionary model and process. Rates need dates. There is …

Molecular phylogenetics and the origins of placental mammals

WJ Murphy, E Eizirik, WE Johnson, YP Zhang… - Nature, 2001 - nature.com
The precise hierarchy of ancient divergence events that led to the present assemblage of
modern placental mammals has been an area of controversy among morphologists …