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 …

[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 …

Whole-genome analyses resolve the phylogeny of flightless birds (Palaeognathae) in the presence of an empirical anomaly zone

A Cloutier, TB Sackton, P Grayson, M Clamp… - Systematic …, 2019 - academic.oup.com
Palaeognathae represent one of the two basal lineages in modern birds, and comprise the
volant (flighted) tinamous and the flightless ratites. Resolving palaeognath phylogenetic …

[PDF][PDF] Total evidence analysis of the phylogenetic relationships of bandicoots and bilbies (Marsupialia: Peramelemorphia): reassessment of two species and …

KJ Travouillon, MJ Phillips - Zootaxa, 2018 - academia.edu
The phylogenetic relationships of bandicoots and bilbies have been somewhat problematic,
with conflicting results between morphological work and molecular data. This conflict makes …

Taxonomic checklist of living American marsupials

D Astúa, JJ Cherem, P Teta - American and Australasian marsupials: an …, 2023 - Springer
An updated checklist for living American marsupial species (orders Didelphimorphia,
Microbiotheria, and Paucituberculata) is presented here. It includes 22 genera and 137 …

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 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 …

Speciation generates mosaic genomes in kangaroos

MA Nilsson, Y Zheng, V Kumar… - Genome Biology and …, 2018 - academic.oup.com
The iconic Australasian kangaroos and wallabies represent a successful marsupial
radiation. However, the evolutionary relationship within the two genera, Macropus and …

Reconstructing the evolution of giant extinct kangaroos: comparing the utility of DNA, morphology, and total evidence

M Cascini, KJ Mitchell, A Cooper… - Systematic Biology, 2019 - academic.oup.com
Combined “total evidence” analysis of molecular and morphological data offers the
opportunity to objectively merge fossils into the tree of life, and challenges the primacy of …

Retrophylogenomics in rorquals indicate large ancestral population sizes and a rapid radiation

F Lammers, M Blumer, C Rücklé, MA Nilsson - Mobile DNA, 2019 - Springer
Abstract Background Baleen whales (Mysticeti) are the largest animals on earth and their
evolutionary history has been studied in detail, but some relationships still remain …