A mitogenomic timetree for Darwin’s enigmatic South American mammal Macrauchenia patachonica

oleh: Michael Westbury, Sina Baleka, Axel Barlow, Stefanie Hartmann, Johanna L.A. Paijmans, Alejandro Kramarz, Analía M Forasiepi, Mariano Bond, Javier N. Gelfo, Marcelo A. Reguero, Patricio López-Mendoza, Matias Taglioretti, Fernando Scaglia, Andrés Rinderknecht, Washington Jones, Francisco Mena, Guillaume Billet, Christian de Muizon, José Luis Aguilar, Ross D.E. MacPhee, Michael Hofreiter

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Diterbitkan: Nature Portfolio 2017-06-01

Deskripsi

Classification of the extinct South American native ungulates (SANUs) has posed a challenge given the absence of close, surviving relatives. Here, Westburyet al. sequence the mitochondrial genome of the extinct SANU Macrauchenia patachonicaand reconstruct the evolutionary history of the lineage.