Molecular phylogeny of treeshrews (Mammalia: Scandentia) and the timescale of diversification in Southeast Asia

Roberts, Trina E.; Lanier, Hayley C.; Sargis, Eric J.; Olson, Link E.

doi:10.1016/j.ympev.2011.04.021

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“…Analyses were conducted using caper (Orme et al, 2011) in R. The phylogenetic tree used for this analysis was downloaded from the 10 K trees website, version 3.0 (Arnold et al, 2010) and edited in Mesquite (Maddison and Maddison, 2011) to include non-primate euarchontans. Branch lengths for scandentians and dermopterans came from Roberts et al (2011) and Janečka et al (2007), respectively. The tree is provided in the Supporting Information documents (Tree1.nex).…”

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Evolution of postural diversity in primates as reflected by the size and shape of the medial tibial facet of the talus

Boyer

Yapuncich

Butler

et al. 2015

American J Phys Anthropol

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Results support the hypothesis that differences in MTF form between anthropoids and "prosimians" reflect greater use of inverted foot postures and grasp-leaping in the latter group. Although fossil "prosimians" do not have the extreme MTF dimensions that characterize many extant acrobatic leapers, these variables by themselves provide little additional behavioral resolution at the level of individual fossils due to strong phylogenetic signal. ASR suggests that some specialization for use of inverted foot postures (as required in a fine-branch niche) and modifications for grasp-leaping evolved independently in basal strepsirrhine and haplorhine lineages.

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Evolution of postural diversity in primates as reflected by the size and shape of the medial tibial facet of the talus

Boyer

Yapuncich

Butler

et al. 2015

American J Phys Anthropol

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“…In our previous study, we found a remarkable long genetic distance between tree shrews from urban Kunming and the reported Northern tree shrews from GenBank based on mtDNA control region sequence variation (Chen et al, 2011). We noticed that the eight T. belangeri samples that were mainly collected from Vietnam, Myanmar, and Cambodia were also clearly separated in the tree by Roberts et al (2011), which suggested that we should consider genetic difference between tree shrews from different regions when using them to establish animal models.…”

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Evaluating the Phylogenetic Position of Chinese Tree Shrew (Tupaia belangeri chinensis) Based on Complete Mitochondrial Genome: Implication for Using Tree Shrew as an Alternative Experimental Animal to Primates in Biomedical Research

Chen

Nie

et al. 2012

Journal of Genetics and Genomics

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“…On the other hand, the tree topologies that support the "Euarchonta hypothesis" were marginally rejected, probably because of the sparse sampling of Scandentia and Dermoptera in this study. Although our study included only one species each of Scandentia and Dermoptera, Scandentia is a diversified order that includes distant groups from Tupaia, such as Ptilocercus and Dendrogale (Roberts et al, 2011), and Dermoptera has another genus, Cynocephalus, that is distant from Galeopithecus (Janečka et al, 2007). Inclusion of these additional taxa in the mitogenome analysis should contribute to resolving the phylogenetic relationships among orders in Euarchonta.…”

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Importance of synonymous substitutions under dense taxon sampling and appropriate modeling in reconstructing the mitogenomic tree of Eutheria

Hasegawa

Zhong

et al. 2014

Genes Genet. Syst.

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Although molecular phylogenetics is a strong tool for reconstructing the tree of life, many problems persist due to systematic errors caused by model misspecifications. Resolving misconstructed trees should lead us to better understand the processes of molecular evolution. Mammalian mitogenomes provide us with a good opportunity in this respect, because the mammalian tree is well established on the basis of multiple nuclear genes, and mitogenome trees are sometimes in conflict with it, for example concerning the positions of tarsiers and colugos. The utility of mitogenomes as a phylogenetic marker is therefore sometimes questioned, and an important problem is whether any method can overcome the misleading phylogenetic signals of mitogenomes. Here we show that the maximum likelihood tree of 463 eutherian mitogenomes reconstructed from nucleotide sequences of protein-encoding genes gives positions of tarsiers and colugos that are consistent with the well-established nuclear tree; this is the first study to obtain a consistent tree with respect to the positions of tarsiers and colugos using mitogenomes. Furthermore, our mitogenome tree of the 463 eutherians is mostly consistent with the nuclear gene tree. Previous mitogenomic studies have been hampered by sparse taxon sampling, and our analysis demonstrates the importance of dense taxon sampling to relieve the misleading phylogenetic signals of mitogenomes. However, because there are many convergent and parallel substitutions in the amino acid sequences, the effect of dense taxon sampling on the accuracy of tree reconstruction seems to be very limited. We further show the importance of using synonymous substitutions with dense taxon sampling as well as with appropriate modeling in recovering the well-established tree from lower to even higher levels of eutherian phylogeny.

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Molecular phylogeny of treeshrews (Mammalia: Scandentia) and the timescale of diversification in Southeast Asia

Cited by 96 publications

References 74 publications

Evolution of postural diversity in primates as reflected by the size and shape of the medial tibial facet of the talus

Evolution of postural diversity in primates as reflected by the size and shape of the medial tibial facet of the talus

Evaluating the Phylogenetic Position of Chinese Tree Shrew (Tupaia belangeri chinensis) Based on Complete Mitochondrial Genome: Implication for Using Tree Shrew as an Alternative Experimental Animal to Primates in Biomedical Research

Importance of synonymous substitutions under dense taxon sampling and appropriate modeling in reconstructing the mitogenomic tree of Eutheria

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