An emerging consensus in the evolution, phylogeny, and systematics of marsupials and their fossil relatives (Metatheria)

MDB Eldridge, RMD Beck, DA Croft… - Journal of …, 2019 - academic.oup.com
Marsupials and their fossil relatives, which collectively comprise Metatheria, have been of
scientific interest for centuries, with many aspects of their evolution and systematics subject …

Incomplete lineage sorting and phenotypic evolution in marsupials

S Feng, M Bai, I Rivas-González, C Li, S Liu, Y Tong… - Cell, 2022 - cell.com
Incomplete lineage sorting (ILS) makes ancestral genetic polymorphisms persist during
rapid speciation events, inducing incongruences between gene trees and species trees. ILS …

[HTML][HTML] Craniodental morphology and phylogeny of marsupials

RMD Beck, RS Voss, SA Jansa - Bulletin of the American Museum of …, 2022 - BioOne
The current literature on marsupial phylogenetics includes numerous studies based on
analyses of morphological data with limited sampling of Recent and fossil taxa, and many …

Estimation of species divergence times in presence of cross-species gene flow

GP Tiley, T Flouri, X Jiao, JW Poelstra, B Xu… - Systematic …, 2023 - academic.oup.com
Cross-species introgression can have significant impacts on phylogenomic reconstruction of
species divergence events. Here, we used simulations to show how the presence of even a …

Admixture in mammals and how to understand its functional implications: on the abundance of gene flow in mammalian species, its impact on the genome, and roads …

C Fontsere, M de Manuel, T Marques‐Bonet… - …, 2019 - Wiley Online Library
Admixture, the genetic exchange between differentiated populations appears to be common
in the history of species, but has not yet been comparatively studied across mammals. This …

The genome of the pygmy right whale illuminates the evolution of rorquals

M Wolf, K Zapf, DK Gupta, M Hiller, Ú Árnason, A Janke - BMC biology, 2023 - Springer
Background Baleen whales are a clade of gigantic and highly specialized marine mammals.
Their genomes have been used to investigate their complex evolutionary history and to …

Rapid Pliocene adaptive radiation of modern kangaroos

AMC Couzens, GJ Prideaux - Science, 2018 - science.org
Differentiating between ancient and younger, more rapidly evolved clades is important for
determining paleoenvironmental drivers of diversification. Australia possesses many aridity …

A 16S next generation sequencing based molecular and bioinformatics pipeline to identify processed meat products contamination and mislabelling

NS Chaora, KS Khanyile, K Magwedere, R Pierneef… - Animals, 2022 - mdpi.com
Simple Summary Meat adulteration and fraud encompasses the deliberate fraudulent
addition or substitution of proteins of animal or plant origin in edible products primarily for …

Genomic divergence and introgression between cryptic species of a widespread North American songbird

KK Askelson, GM Spellman, D Irwin - Molecular Ecology, 2023 - Wiley Online Library
Abstract Analysis of genomic variation among related populations can sometimes reveal
distinct species that were previously undescribed due to similar morphological …

A molecular and morphometric assessment of the systematics of the Macropus complex clarifies the tempo and mode of kangaroo evolution

M Celik, M Cascini, D Haouchar… - Zoological Journal of …, 2019 - academic.oup.com
Kangaroos and wallabies of the Macropus complex include the largest extant marsupials
and hop** mammals. They have traditionally been divided among the genus Macropus …