Genomic evidence reveals a radiation of placental mammals uninterrupted by the KPg boundary

Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America

Volumn 114, Issue 35, 2017, Pages E7282-E7290

  Liu, Liang ^a,b   Zhang, Jin ^c   Rheindt, Frank E ^d   Lei, Fumin ^e   Qu, Yanhua ^e   Wang, Yu ^e   Zhang, Yu ^e   Sullivan, Corwin ^f   Nie, Wenhui ^g   Wang, Jinhuan ^g   Yang, Fengtang ^h   Chen, Jinping ⁱ   Edwards, Scott V ^a,j   Meng, Jin ^k   Wu, Shaoyuan ^a,l  

^a JIANGSU NORMAL UNIVERSITY   (China)

^b UNIVERSITY OF GEORGIA   (United States)

^c HUNAN NORMAL UNIVERSITY   (China)

^d NATIONAL UNIVERSITY OF SINGAPORE   (Singapore)

^e INSTITUTE OF ZOOLOGY   (China)

^f INSTITUTE OF VERTEBRATE PALEONTOLOGY AND PALEOANTHROPOLOGY   (China)

^g KUNMING INSTITUTE OF ZOOLOGY   (China)

^h WELLCOME TRUST SANGER INSTITUTE   (United Kingdom)

ⁱ Guangdong Academy of Sciences   (China)

^j HARVARD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^k DIVISION OF INVERTEBRATE ZOOLOGY   (United States)

^l TIANJIN MEDICAL UNIVERSITY   (China)

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Author keywords

Data partitioning; Molecular clock; Placental diversification timing; Species tree estimation; Trans KPg model

Indexed keywords

TRANSCRIPTOME;

AGE DETERMINATION; ARTICLE; DERMOPTERA; END CRETACEOUS MASS EXTINCTION; GENE LOCUS; GENOME ANALYSIS; GENOMICS; MOLECULAR CLOCK; NONHUMAN; PALEONTOLOGY; PHOLIDOTA; PLACENTAL MAMMAL; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RADIATION; RADIOMETRIC DATING; THERIAN; ANIMAL; DNA SEQUENCE; EVOLUTION; FOSSIL; GENETIC DATABASE; GENETIC VARIATION; GENETICS; GENOME; MAMMAL; MOLECULAR EVOLUTION; PHYLOGENY; PHYSIOLOGY; PROCEDURES; SPECIES DIFFERENCE; SPECIES EXTINCTION; THEORETICAL MODEL;

ANIMALS; BIOLOGICAL EVOLUTION; DATABASES, GENETIC; EUTHERIA; EVOLUTION, MOLECULAR; EXTINCTION, BIOLOGICAL; FOSSILS; GENETIC VARIATION; GENOME; GENOMICS; MAMMALS; MODELS, THEORETICAL; PALEONTOLOGY; PHYLOGENY; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS, DNA; SPECIES SPECIFICITY;

EID: 85028559263     PISSN: 00278424     EISSN: 10916490     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1073/pnas.1616744114     Document Type: Article

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