Journal article
Influence of Tertiary paleoenvironmental changes on the diversification of South American mammals: a relaxed molecular clock study within xenarthrans
Abstract
BackgroundComparative genomic data among organisms allow the reconstruction of their phylogenies and evolutionary time scales. Molecular timings have been recently used to suggest that environmental global change have shaped the evolutionary history of diverse terrestrial organisms. Living xenarthrans (armadillos, anteaters and sloths) constitute an ideal model for studying the influence of past environmental changes on species diversification. …
Authors
Delsuc F; Vizcaíno SF; Douzery EJ
Journal
BMC Ecology and Evolution, Vol. 4, No. 1,
Publisher
Springer Nature
DOI
10.1186/1471-2148-4-11
ISSN
1472-6785