Placental mammal diversification and the Cretaceous–Tertiary boundary

By M. Springer, W. Murphy, E. Eizirik, Stephen J. O'Brien. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America, 2003

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Subfields: Genetics, Molecular Biology, Paleontology

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A NEW BASAL GLYPTODONTID AND OTHER XENARTHRA OF THE EARLY MIOCENE CHUCAL FAUNA, NORTHERN CHILE (2007, background): “Despite their disparate appearance, xenarthrans possess unique accessory vertebral articulations (xenarthrae), bear a reduced dentition, and share a variety of molecular and other morphological characters clearly indicating a unique common ancestry (e.g., Engelmann, 1985; Gaudin, 2003; Springer et a”
A review of long‐branch attraction (2005, background): “…South American ⁄Northern Hemisphere taxa can make sense in a geographic and plate tectonical perspective, where molecular dating of the split is more or less congruent with the geological dating of the split between South America and Africa (see Murphy et al., 2001b; Springer et al., 2003, 2004).”
Rank-related partner choice in the fission–fusion society of the spotted hyena (Crocuta crocuta) (2007, neutral): “This offers a unique opportunity to compare rank-related partner choice between primates and carnivores, taxonomic groups that last shared a common ancestor 90–100 Mya (Springer et al. 2003, 2005).”
Constraints on the timescale of animal evolutionary history (2015, background): “Some molecular clock studies suggest deep Cretaceous roots for crown placental orders (Springer et al., 2003; Bininda-Emonds et al., 2007, 2012).”
Driven by the West Wind Drift? A synthesis of southern temperate marine biogeography, with new directions for dispersalism (2008, background): “But this ancient timeframe for otarid diversification is clearly at odds with recently published timescales of mammalian evolution (e.g. Cenozoic diversification of Carnivora: Penny et al., 1999; Springer et al., 2003; Penny & Phillips, 2004).”
Paleontological evidence to date the tree of life. (2006, background): “…rather early (Hedges et al. 1996; Janke et al. 1997) or rather later, and more in line with the fossils (Murphy et al. 2001; Arna-son et al. 2002; Springer et al. 2003), evidence perhaps of a rapprochement between molecular and paleontological evidence (Archibald 2003; Benton and Ayala 2003).”
Molecular dating of phylogenetic trees: A brief review of current methods that estimate divergence times (2006, background): “This procedure is also supported by the fact that an increasing number of divergence time analyses show significant deviations from a molecular clock, especially if sequences of distantly related species are analysed (e.g. different orders or families; Yoder & Yang, 2000; Hasegawa et al., 2003; Spri”
Functionality or transcriptional noise? Evidence for selection within long noncoding RNAs. (2007, background): “long time intervals, such as since the last common ancestor of primates and rodents ∼90 million years ago (Mya) (Springer et al. 2003).”