Recent Advances in the (Molecular) Phylogeny of Vertebrates

By Axel Meyer, Rafael Zardoya. 2003

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▪ Abstract The analysis of molecular phylogenetic data has advanced the knowledge of the relationships among the major groups of living vertebrates. Whereas the molecular hypotheses generally agree with traditional morphology-based systematics, they sometimes contradict them. We review the major controversies in vertebrate phylogenetics and the contribution of molecular phylogenetic data to their resolution: (a) the mono-paraphyly of cyclostomes, (b) the relationships among the major groups of ray-finned fish, (c) the identity of the living sistergroup of tetrapods, (d) the relationships among the living orders of amphibians, (e) the phylogeny of amniotes with particular emphasis on the position of turtles as diapsids, (f) ordinal relationships among birds, and (g) the radiation of mammals with specific attention to the phylogenetic relationships among the monotremes, marsupial, and placental mammals. We present a discussion of limitations of currently used molecular markers and phylogenetic methods as we...

Subfields: Global and Planetary Change, Nature and Landscape Conservation, Paleontology

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In Global and Planetary Change

1. M. Friedman
2. Y. Van de Peer
3. Axel Meyer
4. Michael Benton

In Nature and Landscape Conservation

1. M. Friedman
2. Michael Benton
3. Y. Van de Peer
4. T. Near
5. P. Donoghue
6. Axel Meyer
7. T. Buckley
8. David Posada

In Paleontology

1. M. Friedman
2. Michael Benton
3. Y. Van de Peer
4. T. Near
5. P. Donoghue
6. Axel Meyer
7. C. Simon
8. David Haussler

Citations in the corpus

• Incorporating molecular evolution into phylogenetic analysis, and a new compilation of conserved polymerase chain reaction primers for animal mitochondrial DNA (2006, background): “We do not include a section on the phylogenetic usefulness of different mtDNA genes because this has been updated for animals by others (e.g., Lin & Danforth 2004, Meyer & Zardoya 2003).”
• The early evolution of ray‐finned fishes (2015, background): “Genetic analyses repeatedly indicated that gars and bowfin were more closely related to one another than either was to teleosts (Venkatesh et al. 2001; Inoue et al. 2003, 2005; Meyer and Zardoya 2003; Kikugawa et al. 2004; Hurley et al. 2007), but Grande’s (2010) painstaking account of gar anatomy d”
• Editing modifies the GABAA receptor subunit α3 (2007, background): “(C) An evolutionary tree showing the phylogenetic relationship between the species in B (Meyer and Zardoya 2003; Kriegs et al. 2006).”
• Assembling the history of the Parareptilia: phylogeny, diversification, and a new definition of the clade (2009, unknown): “…focus shifted towards the position of turtles within Diapsida (Cao et al. 2000; Rieppel 2000; Janke et al. 2001; Zardoya & Meyer 2001; M ller 2004; Meyer & Zardoya 2003; Hill 2005) and how the highly modified ‘anapsid’ turtle skull can be derived from an ancestral diapsid condition (M ller 2003).”
• Constraints on the timescale of animal evolutionary history (2015, background): “, 2010) or as a diapsid subclade, allied either with archosauromorphs (Kumazawa and Nishida, 1999; Cao et al., 2000; Zardoya and Meyer, 2001; Meyer and Zardoya, 2003; Iwabe et al., 2005; Field et al., 2014) or lepidosauromorphs (Rieppel and Reisz, 1999; Hill, 2005; Lyson et al.”
• From 2R to 3R: evidence for a fish-specific genome duplication (FSGD). (2005, background): “We suspect that, as is often found in molecular phylogenetic analyses, paleontological dates tend to underestimate the real ages of lineages and palaeontological data can only provide minimum estimates for the age of particular lineages, and these are generally younger than estimates based on molecu”