@ARTICLE{TreeBASE2Ref20051,
author = {Warren E Johnson and Eduardo Eizirik and Jill Pecon-Slattery and William J. Murphy and Agostinho Antunes and Emma Teeling and Stephen J. O'Brien},
title = {The Late Miocene Radiation of Modern Felidae: A Genetic Assessment.},
year = {2006},
keywords = {},
doi = {10.1126/science.1122277},
url = {http://},
pmid = {},
journal = {Science},
volume = {311},
number = {5757},
pages = {73--77},
abstract = {Modern felid species descend from relatively recent (G11 million years ago) divergence and speciation events that produced successful predatory carnivores worldwide but that have confounded taxonomic classifications. A highly resolved molecular phylogeny with divergence dates for all living cat species, derived from autosomal, X-linked, Y-linked, and mitochondrial gene segments (22,789 base pairs) and 16 fossil calibrations define eight principal lineages produced through at least 10 intercontinental migrations facilitated by sea-level fluctuations. A ghost lineage analysis indicates that available felid fossils underestimate (i.e., unrepresented basal branch length) first occurrence by an average of 76%, revealing a low representation of felid lineages in paleontological remains. The phylogenetic performance of distinct gene classes showed that Y-chromosome segments are appreciably more informative than mitochondrial DNA, X-linked, or autosomal genes in resolving the rapid Felidae species radiation.}
}
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Citation title:
"The Late Miocene Radiation of Modern Felidae: A Genetic Assessment.".
Study name:
"The Late Miocene Radiation of Modern Felidae: A Genetic Assessment.".
This study is part of submission 11931
(Status: Published).
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