Article
Genomic evidence reveals a radiation of placental mammals uninterrupted by the KPg boundary.
Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America - 29 Aug 2017
Liu Liang, Zhang Jin, Rheindt Frank E, Lei Fumin, Qu Yanhua, Wang Yu, Zhang Yu, Sullivan Corwin, Nie Wenhui, Wang Jinhuan, Yang Fengtang, Chen Jinping, Edwards Scott V, Meng Jin, Wu Shaoyuan
Abstract excerpt
The timing of the diversification of placental mammals relative to the Cretaceous-Paleogene (KPg) boundary mass extinction remains highly controversial. In particular, there have been seemingly irreconcilable differences in the dating of the early placental radiation not only between fossil-based and molecular datasets but also among molecular datasets. To help resolve this discrepancy, we performed genome-scale...
Topics
- Animals
- Biological Evolution
- Databases, Genetic
- Eutheria
- Evolution, Molecular
- Extinction, Biological
- Fossils
- Genetic Variation
- Genome
- Genomics
- Mammals
- Models, Theoretical
- Paleontology