Mitogenomic relationships of placental mammals and molecular estimates of their divergences

Molecular analyses of the relationships of placental mammals have shown a progressive congruence between mitogenomic and nuclear phylogenies. Some inconsis...

U Arnason，JA Adegoke，A Gullberg，... - 《Gene》

Diet and habitat of toxodont megaherbivores (Mammalia, Notoungulata) from the late Quaternary of South and Central America

The toxodont megaherbivores Toxodon and Mixotoxodon were endemic to South and Central America during the late Quaternary. Isotopic signatures of 47 toxodon...

BJ Macfadden - 《Quaternary Research》

On the phylogenetic position of a rare Iberian endemic mammal, the Pyrenean desman (Galemys pyrenaicus)

The nucleotide sequences of the complete mitochondrial genome and nine partial nuclear genes of the Pyrenean desman ( Galemys pyrenaicus) were determined i...

MT Cabria，J Rubines，B Gómez-Moliner，... - 《Gene》

The chorda tympani and its significance for rodent phylogeny

The topographical relationship of the chorda tympani to the tensor tympani muscle in the middle ear region of rodents was recorded, finding that this chara...

I Ruf，S Frahnert，W Maier - Mammalian Biology - Zeitschrift für S?ugetierkunde

Evolution and systematics of the feliform Carnivora

Recent studies have improved our knowledge about the evolution and phylogeny of feliform taxa. Detailed study on new fossil remains of extinct feliform nim...

E Barycka - 《Mammalian Biology》

Pleistocene mammals of Mexico: A critical review of regional chronofaunas, climate change response and biogeographic provinciality

Mexico's Pleistocene terrestrial mammal record includes 13 orders, 44 families, 147 genera and 280 species, thus is comparable to the Recent one, but shows...

Ismael Ferrusquia-Villafranca，Joaquin Arroyo-Cabrales，Enrique Martinez-Hernandez，... - 《Quaternary International》

Branch-length estimation bias misleads molecular dating for a vertebrate mitochondrial phylogeny

Despite recent methodological advances in inferring the time-scale of biological evolution from molecular data, the fundamental question of whether our sub...

MJ Phillips - 《Gene》

Karyological study of Nasillus gracilis (Insectivora, Talpidae, Uropsilinae)

were localized exclusively at the centromere positions of all chromosomes. The Y chro- mosome was stained positively throughout the entire chromosome arm.I...

S Kawada，S Li，Y Wang，... - 《Mammalian Biology》

The rediscovery of Rhagomys rufescens (Thomas, 1886), with a morphological redescription and comments on its systematic relationships based on morphologica...

Rhagomys rufescens is one of the rarest species of the South American mammalian fauna. This scarcity has determined a lack of studies on the natural histor...

AR Percequillo，PR Goncalves，JAD Oliveira - 《Mammalian Biology》

Early cytokine mRNA expression profiles predict Morbillivirus disease outcome in ferrets

Severe immunosuppression is a hallmark of Morbillivirus infections. To study the underlying mechanisms, we have developed a ferret model of canine distempe...

N Svitek，VV Messling - 《Virology》