Cetartiodactyla: Updating a time-calibrated molecular phylogeny
Abstract
Time-calibrated molecular phylogeny of Cetartiodactyla covering more than 90% of extant species. The origin of Cetartiodactyla dates back to ∼67 Ma at the Cretaceous- Paleocene boundaries. Relationship among major lineages and among families were recovered robustly. Families divergence times are congruent with the available fossil records. Missing-data has a limited effect on the estimation of the divergence times and in the support of the clades.
- Publication:
-
Molecular Phylogenetics and Evolution
- Pub Date:
- April 2019
- DOI:
- 10.1016/j.ympev.2018.12.015
- Bibcode:
- 2019MolPE.133..256Z
- Keywords:
-
- Mammals;
- Cetacea;
- Artiodactyla;
- Mitogenomics;
- Phylogenetic relationships