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Citation for Study 11672

About Citation title: "c-Myc Gene Sequences and the Phylogeny of Bats and Other Eutherian Mammals.".
About Study name: "c-Myc Gene Sequences and the Phylogeny of Bats and Other Eutherian Mammals.".
About This study is part of submission 11662 (Status: Published).

Citation

Miyamoto M.M., Porter C.A., & Goodman M. 2000. c-Myc Gene Sequences and the Phylogeny of Bats and Other Eutherian Mammals. Systematic Biology, 49(3): 501-514.

Authors

  • Miyamoto M.M.
  • Porter C.A.
  • Goodman M.

Abstract

The complete protein-coding sequences of the c-myc proto-oncogene were determined for five species of four new orders of eutherian (placental) mammals. These newly obtained sequences were aligned to each other and to other available orthologs for the phylogenetic estimation of eutherian interordinal relationships. Several measures of sequence difference and base composition were first calculated to assess the major evolutionary properties of the three codon positions and two protein-coding exons of the gene. On the basis of these calculations, different parsimony, distance, and maximum likelihood approaches were adopted, with the most sophisticated involving the separate, then combined, likelihood analyses of the third codon positions of exon 2 versus all other sites. These phylogenetic approaches provided clear support for the grouping of Chiroptera (bats) with Artiodactyla (ruminants, camels, and pigs) and Carnivora (cats, dogs, and their allies), an interordinal arrangement that receives strong corroboration from other lines of evidence including complete mitochondrial DNA sequences. In contrast, these analyses failed to provide strong to reasonable support for any other interordinal group. This study concludes with specific recommendations about sampling and other strategies for maximizing the phylogenetic contributions of the c-myc gene to the continued resolution of the eutherian ordinal tree.

Keywords

Chiroptera; c-myc gene; DNA sequences; eutherian mammals; maximum likelihood; phylogeny

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