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SUBMITTER: Loss-Oliveira L
PROVIDER: S-EPMC3273932 | biostudies-literature | 2012
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
Loss-Oliveira Leticia L Aguiar Barbara O BO Schrago Carlos G CG
Evolutionary bioinformatics online 20120124
The abrupt appearance of primates and hystricognath rodents in early Oligocene deposits of South America has puzzled mastozoologists for decades. Based on the geoclimatic changes that occurred during the Eocene/Oligocene transition period that may have favoured their dispersal, researchers have proposed the hypothesis that these groups arrived in synchrony. Nevertheless, the hypothesis of synchronous origins of platyrrhine and caviomorph in South America has not been explicitly evaluated. Our ai ...[more]