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Afrotheria (/ æ f r oʊ ˈ θ ɪər i ə / from Latin Afro-"of Africa" + theria "wild beast") is a superorder of mammals, the living members of which belong to groups that are either currently living in Africa or of African origin: golden moles, elephant shrews (also known as sengis), otter shrews, tenrecs, aardvarks, hyraxes, elephants, sea cows, and several extinct clades.
Mar 14, 2022 · Afrotheria also includes entirely extinct clades, although membership in Afrotheria is intrinsically more difficult to confirm when molecular data are unavailable and skeletal remains are incomplete. One group with almost certain afrotherian affinities is Bibymalagasia (Malagasy animal), which includes two species in the genus Plesiorycteropus ...
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Jul 5, 2021 · Out of Africa: A New Afrotheria Lineage Rises From Extinct South American Mammals. The South American native ungulates (SANUs) are usually overlooked in Eutherian phylogenetic studies. In the rare studies where they were included, the diversity of SANUs was underrated, keeping their evolutionary history poorly known.
- Leonardo S. Avilla, Leonardo S. Avilla, Dimila Mothé, Dimila Mothé
- 2021
Jan 13, 2021 · Majority of the orthologues in Afrotheria (52%) show very high sequence identity and are hence ‘most’ conserved (> 90% sequence identity) (Table S1 B–G). 48% of these proteins are ...
- Arangasamy Yazhini, Narayanaswamy Srinivasan, Sankaran Sandhya
- 2021
Jan 2, 2001 · Afrotheria is one of the most remarkable hypotheses in mammal evolution. It suggests that one-third of the orders of placental mammals form an ancient group that evolved on Africa when that continent was isolated from others through plate tectonics ( 1 ).
Nov 13, 2007 · Background The placental mammalian clade Afrotheria is now supported by diverse forms of genomic data, but interordinal relationships within, and morphological support for, the group remains elusive. As a means for addressing these outstanding problems, competing hypotheses of afrotherian interordinal relationships were tested through simultaneous parsimony analysis of a large data set ...
Oct 1, 2021 · South Africa is home to 30 species of the Afrotheria clade, of which 18 are endemic and 17 are categorized as either Data Deficient, Near Threatened, Vulnerable, Endangered, or Critically Endangered according to the IUCN Red List of Mammals of South Africa, Swaziland and Lesotho (Child et al., 2016).
