Pattern and timing of diversification of the mammalian order Carnivora inferred from multiple nuclear gene sequences.

ABSTRACT: The mammalian order Carnivora has attracted the attention of scientists of various disciplines for decades, leading to intense interest in defining its supra-familial relationships. In the last few years, major changes to the topological structure of the carnivoran tree have been proposed and supported by various molecular data sets, radically changing the traditional view of family composition in this order. Although a sequence of molecular studies have established a growing consensus with respect to most inter-familial relationships, no analysis so far has included all carnivoran lineages (both feliform and caniform) in an integrated data set, so as to determine comparative patterns of diversification. Moreover, no study conducted thus far has estimated divergence dates among all carnivo

SUBMITTER: Eizirik E 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC7034395 | biostudies-literature | 2010 Jul

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature