New radiometric 40Ar–39Ar dates and faunistic analyses refine evolutionary dynamics of Neogene vertebrate assemblages in southern South America

FJ Prevosti, CO Romano, AM Forasiepi, S Hemming… - Scientific Reports, 2021 - nature.com
The vertebrate fossil record of the Pampean Region of Argentina occupies an important
place in South American vertebrate paleontology. An abundance of localities has long been …

Transposable element interactions shape the ecology of the deer mouse genome

L Gozashti, C Feschotte… - Molecular Biology and …, 2023 - academic.oup.com
The genomic landscape of transposable elements (TEs) varies dramatically across species,
with some TEs demonstrating greater success in colonizing particular lineages than others …

[HTML][HTML] A brief critical review of sigmodontine rodent origins, with emphasis on paleontological data

C Ronez, RA Martin, TS Kelly, F Barbière… - Mastozoología …, 2021 - SciELO Argentina
Most of the contemporary debate about the origin and early diversification of sigmodontine
rodents, the most diverse living subfamily of cricetids, is based on the analysis of molecular …

Tempo and mode of evolution of oryzomyine rodents (Rodentia, Cricetidae, Sigmodontinae): a phylogenomic approach

AR Percequillo, JR do Prado, EF Abreu… - Molecular Phylogenetics …, 2021 - Elsevier
The tribe Oryzomyini is an impressive group of rodents, comprising 30 extant genera and an
estimated 147 species. Recent remarkable advances in the understanding of the diversity …

The importance of the Andes in the evolutionary radiation of Sigmodontinae (Rodentia, Cricetidae), the most diverse group of mammals in the Neotropics

P Vallejos-Garrido, K Pino, N Espinoza-Aravena… - Scientific Reports, 2023 - nature.com
The Andean mountains stand out for their striking species richness and endemicity that
characterize many emblematic Neotropical clades distributed in or around these mountains …

Ultraconserved elements improve the resolution of difficult nodes within the rapid radiation of Neotropical sigmodontine rodents (Cricetidae: Sigmodontinae)

A Parada, J Hanson, G D'Eiía - Systematic Biology, 2021 - academic.oup.com
Abstract Sigmodontine rodents (Cricetidae, Sigmodontinae) represent the second largest
muroid subfamily and the most species-rich group of New World mammals, encompassing …

[HTML][HTML] A review on the cytogenetics of the tribe Oryzomyini (Rodentia: Cricetidae: Sigmodontinae), with the description of new karyotypes

CDN Moreira, K Ventura, AR Percequillo… - Zootaxa, 2020 - mapress.com
Oryzomyini represents the most diverse and speciose tribe of subfamily Sigmodontinae, with
29 genera and about 141 species. This great diversity of species is distributed from …

Comprehensive total evidence phylogeny of chinchillids (Rodentia, Caviomorpha): Cheek teeth anatomy and evolution

LL Rasia, AM Candela, C Cañón - Journal of Anatomy, 2021 - Wiley Online Library
Rodents are the most diverse order of extant mammals, and caviomorph rodents, or New
World hystricognaths, have a remarkable morphological disparity and a long fossil record …

Tracing the diversification history of a Neogene rodent invasion into South America

R Maestri, NS Upham, BD Patterson - Ecography, 2019 - Wiley Online Library
We investigated spatial patterns of evolutionary relatedness and diversification rates to test
hypotheses about the historical biogeographic processes underlying the radiation of …

Multiple modes of inference reveal less phylogenetic signal in marsupial basicranial shape compared with the rest of the cranium

V Weisbecker, RMD Beck… - … of the Royal …, 2023 - royalsocietypublishing.org
Incorporating morphological data into modern phylogenies allows integration of fossil
evidence, facilitating divergence dating and macroevolutionary inferences. Improvements in …