Evolutionary Affinities of the Order Perissodactyla and the Phylogenetic Status of the Superordinal Taxa Ungulata and Altungulata

Molecular Phylogenetics and Evolution

Volumn 7, Issue 2, 1997, Pages 195-200

  Graur, Dan ^a   Gouy, Manolo ^b   Duret, Laurent ^b  

^a TEL AVIV UNIVERSITY   (Israel)

^b UNIVERSITÉ LYON 1   (France)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

PROTEIN;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ANIMAL; ARTICLE; ARTIODACTYLA; CARNIVORA; CETACEA; CLASSIFICATION; COMPARATIVE STUDY; GENETICS; MOLECULAR EVOLUTION; PERISSODACTYLA; PHYLOGENY; PRIMATE; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY; STATISTICAL MODEL;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ANIMALS; ARTIODACTYLA; CARNIVORA; CETACEA; EVOLUTION, MOLECULAR; LIKELIHOOD FUNCTIONS; PERISSODACTYLA; PHYLOGENY; PRIMATES; PROTEINS; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY, AMINO ACID;

EID: 0031114984     PISSN: 10557903     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1006/mpev.1996.0391     Document Type: Article

References (37)

1. J. Adachi, M. Hasegawa, 1992, MOLPHY: Programs for Molecular Phylogenetics. I. PROTML: Maximum Likelihood Inference for Protein Phylogeny, Institute of Statistical Mathematics, Tokyo.
2. Bailey W. J., Slightom J. L., Goodman M. Rejection of the "flying primate" hypothesis by phylogenetic evidence from the ε-globin gene. Science. 256:1992;86-89.
3. de Jong W. W., Leunissen J. A. M., Wistow G. J. Eye lens crystallins and the phylogeny of placental orders: evidence for a macroscelid-paenungulate clade? Mammalian Phylogeny: Placentals. 1993;Springer-Verlag, New York. p. 5-12.
4. D'Erchia A. M., Gissi C., Pesole G., Saccone C., Árnason Ú. The guinea-pig is not a rodent. Nature. 381:1996;597-600.
5. Duret L., Mouchiroud D., Gouy M. HOVERGEN: A database of homologous vertebrate genes. Nucleic Acids Res. 22:1994;2360-2365.
6. Felsenstein J. Confidence limits on phylogenies: An approach using the bootstrap. Evolution. 39:1985;783-791.
7. Felsenstein J. PHYLIP - Phylogeny inference package, version 3.4. Cladistics. 5:1989;164-166.
8. Fischer M. S. The interrelation between Proboscidea, Sirenia, Hyracoidea, and Mesaxonia: The morphological evidence. Szalay F. S., Novacek M. J., McKenna M. C. Mammalian Phylogeny: Placentals. 1993;217-234 Springer-Verlag, New York.
9. George D. G., Barker W. C., Mewes H. W., Pfeiffer F., Tsugita A. The PIR-International Protein Sequence Database. Nucleic Acids Res. 22:1994;3569-3573.
10. Goodman M., Bailey W. J., Hayasaka K., Stanhope M. J., Slightom J., Czelusniak J. Molecular evidence on primate phylogeny from DNA sequences. Am. J. Phys. Anthropol. 94:1994;3-24.
11. Graur D., Higgins D. G. Molecular evidence for the inclusion of cetaceans within the order Artiodactyla. Mol. Biol. Evol. 11:1994;357-364.
12. Graur D., Hide W. A., Li W.-H. Is the guinea-pig a rodent? Nature. 351:1991;649-652.
13. Graur D., Hide W. A., Zharkikh A., Li W.-H. The biochemical phylogeny of guinea-pigs and gundis, and the paraphyly of the order Rodentia. Comp. Biochem. Physiol. 101B:1992;495-498.
14. Graur D., Duret L., Gouy M. Phylogenetic position of the order Lagomorpha (rabbits, hares and allies). Nature. 379:1996;333-335.
15. Irwin D. M., Kocher T. D., Wilson A. C. Evolution of the cytochrome b gene of mammals. J. Mol. Evol. 32:1991;128-144.
16. Janke A., Gemmell N. J., Feldmaier-Fuchs G., von Haeseler A., Pääbo S. The mitochondrial genome of a monotreme - The platypus (Ornithorhynchus anatinus. J. Mol. Evol. 42:1996;153-159.
17. Kimura M. The Neutral Theory of Molecular Evolution. 1983;Cambridge Univ. Press, Cambridge. p. 75-.
18. Kishino H., Miyata T., Hasegawa M. Maximum likelihood inference of protein phylogeny and the origin of chloroplasts. J. Mol. Evol. 30:1990;151-160.
19. Krettek A., Gullberg A., Árnason Ú. Sequence analysis of the complete mitochondrial DNA molecule of the hedgehog,Erinaceus europaeus, J. Mol. Evol. 42:1995;952-957.
20. Ma D. P., Zharkikh A., Graur D., VandeBerg J. L., Li W.-H. Structure and evolution of opossum, guinea pig, and porcupine cytochrome b genes. J. Mol. Evol. 36:1993;327-334.
21. O. Madsen, P. M. T. Deen, W. W. de Jong, 1996, Further evidence for a macroscelid-paenungulate clade as derived from aquaporin-2 sequences, Proceedings of the Fifth International Congress of Systematic and Evolutionary Biology, 69, Budapest.
22. McKenna M. C. Toward a phylogenetic classification of the Mammalia. Luckett W. P., Szalay F. S. Phylogeny of the Primates: An Interdisciplinary Approach. 1975;21-46 Plenum, New York.
23. Milinkovitch M. C. Molecular phylogeny of cetaceans prompts revision of morphological transformations. Trends Ecol. Evol. 10:1995;328-334.
24. Montgelard C., Catzeflis F. M., Douzery E. Phylogenetic relationships of artiodactyls and cetaceans as deduced from the comparison of mitochondrial cytochrome b and 12S rRNA sequences. Mol. Biol. Evol. 1997.
25. Novacek M. J. Mammalian phylogeny: Shaking the tree. Nature. 356:1992;121-125.
26. Novacek M. J. Reflections on higher mammalian phylogenetics. J. Mamm. Evol. 1:1993;3-30.
27. Porter C. A., Goodman M., Stanhope M. J. Evidence on mammalian phylogeny from sequences of exon 28 of the von Willebrand factor gene. Mol. Phylogenet. Evol. 5:1996;89-101.
28. Prothero D. R. Ungulate phylogeny: Molecular vs. morphological evidence. Szalay F. S., Novacek M. J., McKenna M. C. Mammalian Phylogeny: Placentals. 1993;173-181 Springer-Verlag, New York.
29. Prothero D. R., Schock R. M. Origin and evolution of the Perissodactyla: Summary and synthesis. Prothero D. R., Schock R. M. The Evolution of Perissodactyls. 1989;504-537 Clarendon, New York.
30. Prothero D. R., Manning E. M., Fischer M. S. The phylogeny of the ungulates. Benton M. J. The Phylogeny and Classification of Tetrapods. 1988;201-234 Oxford Univ. Press, Oxford.
31. Queralt R., Adroer R., Oliva R., Winkfein R. J., Retief J. D., Dixon G. H. Evolution of protamine P1 genes in mammals. J. Mol. Evol. 40:1995;601-607.
32. Saitou N., Nei M. The neighbor-joining method: A new method for reconstructing phylogenetic trees. Mol. Biol. Evol. 4:1987;406-425.
33. Shoshani J. Hyracoidea-Tethytheria affinity based on myological data. Szalay F. S., Novacek M. J., McKenna M. C. Mammalian Phylogeny: Placentals. 1993;235-256 Springer-Verlag, New York.
34. Stanhope M. J., Czelusniak J., Si J. S., Nickerson J., Goodman M. A molecular perspective on mammalian evolution from the gene encoding interphotoreceptor retinoid binding protein, with convincing evidence for bat monophyly. Mol. Phylogenet. Evol. 1:1992;148-160.
35. Stanhope M. J., Smith J. L., Waddell V. G., Porter C. A., Shivji M. S., Goodman M. Mammalian evolution and the interphotoreceptor retinoid binding protein (IRBP) gene: Convincing evidence for several superordinal clades. J. Mol. Evol. 43:1996;83-92.
36. Thompson J. D., Higgins D. G., Gibson T. J. CLUSTAL W: Improving the sensitivity of progressive multiple sequence alignment through sequence weighting, position-specific gap penalties and weight matrix choice. Nucleic Acids Res. 22:1994;4673-4780.
37. Zolzer U., von Hagen H. O. Amino acid sequences of P1 protamines and the phylogeny of eutherian mammals: A cladistic study. Comp. Biochem. Physiol. 110B:1995;805-815.