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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 ...
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Abstract. The South American mammals, the anteaters, sloths, and armadillos form the Xenarthra, a sister clade to the Afrotheria from which they split about 100 million years ago. The Xenarthra have not been widely studied except for the role of the nine-banded armadillo in immunity to tuberculosis.
Proboscidea ( / ˌprɒbəˈsɪdiə /; from Latin proboscis, from Ancient Greek προβοσκίς (proboskís) 'elephant's trunk') is a taxonomic order of afrotherian mammals containing one living family ( Elephantidae) and several extinct families. First described by J. Illiger in 1811, it encompasses the elephants and their close relatives. [1] .
The Afrotheria is a group of mammals, (a superorder or a clade). It includes the golden moles, elephant shrews, tenrecs, aardvarks, hyraxes, elephants and manatees. Biologists made this group based on DNA sequence analysis. Afrotheria are one of four major groups in the Eutheria (placental mammals).
- Afrotheria
- Placentalia
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 ...
