Search results
Afrotheria ( / æfroʊˈθɪəriə / 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 ...
Mar 14, 2022 · They are each other’s closest living relatives, and all belong to the placental mammal clade Afrotheria (‘African beasts’), which is one of the four major clades of placental mammals along with Xenarthra (anteaters, sloths, armadillos), Euarchontoglires (e.g. rodents, rabbits, primates), and Laurasiatheria (e.g. bats, carnivorans, odd ...
Jun 27, 2019 · This is a necessary step as the thick meninges in proboscideans occupy some 14% of the endocranial cavity with non-neural tissue on average 10. The resulting brain volumes were then multiplied by ...
- Julien Benoit, Lucas J. Legendre, Rodolphe Tabuce, Theodor Obada, Vladislav Mararescul, Paul Manger
- 2019
Phylogenetic relationship between the orders of placental mammals. Primates (including human) and many laboratory mammals are located within the clade Euarchontoglires (red). Other superordinal clades are Laurasiatheria (green), Afrotheria (blue), and Xenarthra (yellow). Tree based on O'Leary et al. (2013).
Nov 12, 2023 · Recapitulating the evolution of Afrotheria: 57 genes and rare genomic changes (RGCs) consolidate their history. Systematics and biodiversity 8 (3): 395–408. DOI: 10.1080/14772000.2010.484436 [corrigendum in Systematics and biodiversity 10 (1): 125. (2012) DOI: 10.1080/14772000.2012.665662] Vernacular names [edit]
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 ...
Jan 2, 2001 · Afrotheria: Plate tectonics meets genomics. 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 ). Although this hypothesis has been predicted by ...
