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Mar 14, 2022 · Today, Afrotheria is regarded as one of the most robust clades of placental mammals and has been recovered in multiple phylogenomic studies. Even with overwhelming genetic and genomic support, Afrotheria has remained elusive in cladistic studies based on morphological characters that are associated with locomotion and diet.
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 25, 2008 · The supraordinal mammalian clade Afrotheria was first recognized in its entirety based on DNA analysis dating to the mid-1990s. Since then, this “African clade”, which includes proboscideans, sirenians, hyracoids, tubulidentates, elephant-shrews, tenrecs and chrysochlorids, has been supported by numerous molecular and genomic studies. According to these molecular inferences, the origin of ...
- Rodolphe Tabuce
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 ...
- Erik R Seiffert
- erik.seiffert@stonybrook.edu
- 2007
Jan 13, 2021 · Afrotheria is a peculiar clade characterized by lack of testicular descent through the loss of functional forms of RXFP3 and INSL3 genes 3. Unique features such as abundant copies of tumor ...
- Arangasamy Yazhini, Narayanaswamy Srinivasan, Sankaran Sandhya
- 2021
The Afrotheria Specialist Group deals with very few species — there is only one aardvark, 6 hyraxes, 19 sengis, 21 golden moles, and 34 tenrecs. Many of these species have broad distributions in a wide variety of habitats, which means they are not particularly vulnerable to extinction (the aardvark, for example, and several hyraxes and sengis).
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Nov 13, 2007 · Early Tertiary mammals from North Africa reinforce the molecular Afrotheria clade. Proceedings of the Royal Society B [PMC free article] [Google Scholar] Seiffert ER, Simons EL, Ryan TM, Bown TM, Attia Y. New remains of Eocene and Oligocene Afrosoricida (Afrotheria) from Egypt, and the origin(s) of afrosoricid zalambdodonty. J Vert Paleo.
