The 10kTrees website: a new online resource for primate phylogeny

C Arnold, LJ Matthews, CL Nunn - … Anthropology: Issues, News …, 2010‏ - Wiley Online Library
The comparative method plays a central role in efforts to uncover the adaptive basis for
primate behaviors, morphological traits, and cognitive abilities. 1–4 The comparative method …

Animal models of human pregnancy and placentation: alternatives to the mouse

AM Carter - Reproduction, 2020‏ - rep.bioscientifica.com
The mouse is often criticized as a model for pregnancy research as gestation is short, with
much of organ development completed postnatally. There are also differences in the …

A global catalog of whole-genome diversity from 233 primate species

LFK Kuderna, H Gao, MC Janiak, M Kuhlwilm, JD Orkin… - Science, 2023‏ - science.org
The rich diversity of morphology and behavior displayed across primate species provides an
informative context in which to study the impact of genomic diversity on fundamental …

A genomic timescale for placental mammal evolution

NM Foley, VC Mason, AJ Harris, KR Bredemeyer… - Science, 2023‏ - science.org
The precise pattern and timing of speciation events that gave rise to all living placental
mammals remain controversial. We provide a comprehensive phylogenetic analysis of …

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 …

The evolutionary landscape of alternative splicing in vertebrate species

NL Barbosa-Morais, M Irimia, Q Pan, HY **ong… - Science, 2012‏ - science.org
How species with similar repertoires of protein-coding genes differ so markedly at the
phenotypic level is poorly understood. By comparing organ transcriptomes from vertebrate …

Impacts of the Cretaceous Terrestrial Revolution and KPg extinction on mammal diversification

RW Meredith, JE Janečka, J Gatesy, OA Ryder… - science, 2011‏ - science.org
Previous analyses of relations, divergence times, and diversification patterns among extant
mammalian families have relied on supertree methods and local molecular clocks. We …

[HTML][HTML] A molecular phylogeny of living primates

P Perelman, WE Johnson, C Roos, HN Seuánez… - PLoS …, 2011‏ - journals.plos.org
Comparative genomic analyses of primates offer considerable potential to define and
understand the processes that mold, shape, and transform the human genome. However …

A glimpse on the pattern of rodent diversification: a phylogenetic approach

PH Fabre, L Hautier, D Dimitrov, EJ P Douzery - BMC evolutionary biology, 2012‏ - Springer
Background Development of phylogenetic methods that do not rely on fossils for the study of
evolutionary processes through time have revolutionized the field of evolutionary biology …

Phylogenomic datasets provide both precision and accuracy in estimating the timescale of placental mammal phylogeny

M dos Reis, J Inoue, M Hasegawa… - … of the Royal …, 2012‏ - royalsocietypublishing.org
The fossil record suggests a rapid radiation of placental mammals following the Cretaceous–
Paleogene (K–Pg) mass extinction 65 million years ago (Ma); nevertheless, molecular time …