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| Mark S SpringerSummaryAffiliation: University of California Country: USA Publications
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Macroevolutionary dynamics and historical biogeography of primate diversification inferred from a species supermatrixMark S Springer
Department of Biology, University of California Riverside, Riverside, California, United States of America
PLoS ONE 7:e49521. 2012..Our results highlight the power and limitations of inferring diversification dynamics from molecular phylogenies, as well as the sensitivity of diversification analyses to different species concepts...
Endemic African mammals shake the phylogenetic treeM S Springer
Department of Biology, University of California, Riverside 92521, USA
Nature 388:61-4. 1997..12S ribosomal RNA transversions suggest that the base of this radiation occurred during Africa's window of isolation in the Cretaceous period before land connections were developed with Europe in the early Cenozoic era...- Morphology and placental mammal phylogenyMark S Springer
Department of Biology, University of California, Riverside, CA 92521, USA
Syst Biol 57:499-503. 2008 - The adequacy of morphology for reconstructing the early history of placental mammalsMark S Springer
Department of Biology, University of California Riverside, Riverside, CA 92521, USA
Syst Biol 56:673-84. 2007 - Additional support for Afrotheria and Paenungulata, the performance of mitochondrial versus nuclear genes, and the impact of data partitions with heterogeneous base compositionM S Springer
Department of Biology and Interdepartmental Graduate Program in Genetics, University of California, Riverside, California 92521, USA
Syst Biol 48:65-75. 1999..Nuclear genes provide stronger support for both Afrotheria and Paenungulata. Removal of third positions of cytochrome b results in improved performance for the mitochondrial genes in recovering these clades... - The historical biogeography of MammaliaMark S Springer
Department of Biology, University of California, Riverside, CA 92521, USA
Philos Trans R Soc Lond B Biol Sci 366:2478-502. 2011..Dispersal has also been important including the origins of Madagascar's endemic mammal fauna. Further studies will benefit from increased taxon sampling and the application of new ancestral area reconstruction methods... - Mammalian evolution and biomedicine: new views from phylogenyMark S Springer
Department of Biology, University of California, Riverside, CA 92521, USA
Biol Rev Camb Philos Soc 82:375-92. 2007.... - Mitochondrial versus nuclear gene sequences in deep-level mammalian phylogeny reconstructionM S Springer
Department of Biology, University of California at Riverside, CA 92521, USA
Mol Biol Evol 18:132-43. 2001..Nuclear genes having appropriate rates of substitution should receive strong consideration in efforts to reconstruct deep-level phylogenetic relationships... - The origin of the Australasian marsupial fauna and the phylogenetic affinities of the enigmatic monito del monte and marsupial moleM S Springer
Department of Biology, University of California, Riverside 92521, USA
Proc Biol Sci 265:2381-6. 1998..The origin of the paraphyletic Australasian marsupial fauna may be accounted for by (i) multiple entries of australidelphians into Australia or (ii) bidirectional dispersal of australidelphians between Antarctica and Australia... - Placental mammal diversification and the Cretaceous-Tertiary boundaryMark S Springer
Department of Biology, University of California, Riverside, CA 92521, USA
Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A 100:1056-61. 2003..In these analyses, interordinal splits remained in the Cretaceous... 
A phylogeny of Diprotodontia (Marsupialia) based on sequences for five nuclear genesRobert W Meredith
Department of Biology, University of California, 900 University Avenue, Riverside, CA 92521, USA
Mol Phylogenet Evol 51:554-71. 2009..Within Diprotodontia, the common ancestor of Macropodidae was reconstructed as terrestrial, suggesting that tree kangaroos (Dendrolagus) are secondarily arboreal...- Molecular phylogenetic relationships and the evolution of the placenta in Poecilia (Micropoecilia) (Poeciliidae: Cyprinodontiformes)Robert W Meredith
Department of Biology, University of California, Riverside, CA 92521, USA
Mol Phylogenet Evol 55:631-9. 2010..bifurca, P. branneri, and P. parae. Divergence time estimates suggest that placentotrophy in Micropoecilia evolved in 4 million years... - Molecular decay of the tooth gene Enamelin (ENAM) mirrors the loss of enamel in the fossil record of placental mammalsRobert W Meredith
Department of Biology, University of California Riverside, Riverside, California, United States of America
PLoS Genet 5:e1000634. 2009..The molecular decay of ENAM parallels the morphological degeneration of enamel in the fossil record of placental mammals and provides manifest evidence for the predictive power of Darwin's theory... - Impacts of the Cretaceous Terrestrial Revolution and KPg extinction on mammal diversificationRobert W Meredith
Department of Biology, University of California, Riverside, CA 92521, USA
Science 334:521-4. 2011..By contrast, diversification analyses provide no support for the hypothesis concerning the delayed rise of present-day mammals during the Eocene Period... - Molecular phylogenetic relationships and the coevolution of placentotrophy and superfetation in Poecilia (Poeciliidae: Cyprinodontiformes)Robert W Meredith
Department of Biology, University of California, Riverside, CA 92521, USA
Mol Phylogenet Evol 59:148-57. 2011..Within P. (Pamphorichthys), superfetation evolved in ≤9 million years on the P. (Pamphorichthys) hasemani branch, and placentotrophy evolved in ≤10 million years in the common ancestor of this subgenus... - Natural selection and mammalian BRCA1 sequences: elucidating functionally important sites relevant to breast cancer susceptibility in humansAngela Burk-Herrick
Biology Department, University of California, Riverside, 92521, USA
Mamm Genome 17:257-70. 2006..Our results demonstrate the necessity of including large numbers of sequences to elucidate functionally important sites of a protein when using a comparative evolutionary approach... - A new phylogenetic marker, apolipoprotein B, provides compelling evidence for eutherian relationshipsHeather Amrine-Madsen
Department of Biology, University of California, Riverside 92521, USA
Mol Phylogenet Evol 28:225-40. 2003..A smaller deletion of 237-246bp was diagnostic of the superordinal clade Afrotheria... - A phylogenetic blueprint for a modern whaleJohn Gatesy
Department of Biology, University of California, Riverside, CA 92521, USA
Mol Phylogenet Evol 66:479-506. 2013.... - Nuclear gene sequences provide evidence for the monophyly of australidelphian marsupialsHeather Amrine-Madsen
Graduate Group in Genetics, University of California, Riverside 9252, USA
Mol Phylogenet Evol 28:186-96. 2003..Within Diprotodontia, both Vombatiformes and Phalangeriformes were supported at the 100% bootstrap level and with posterior probabilities of 1.00... - Pseudogenization of the tooth gene enamelysin (MMP20) in the common ancestor of extant baleen whalesRobert W Meredith
Department of Biology, University of California, Riverside, CA 92521, USA
Proc Biol Sci 278:993-1002. 2011.... - A timescale and phylogeny for "bandicoots" (Peramelemorphia: Marsupialia) based on sequences for five nuclear genesRobert W Meredith
Department of Biology, University of California, 900 University Avenue, Riverside, CA 92521, USA
Mol Phylogenet Evol 47:1-20. 2008..Both relaxed clock Bayesian methods suggest that the living bandicoots are a relatively recent radiation originating sometime in the late Oligocene or early Miocene with subsequent radiations in the late Miocene to early Pliocene... - The molecular evolution of acrosin in placental mammalsDenise Raterman
Department of Biology, University of California Riverside, Riverside, California 92521, USA
Mol Reprod Dev 75:1196-207. 2008..95 for inclusion within the category omega > 1. Based upon two amino acid mutation scoring systems, three out of seven human residue changing single nucleotide polymorphisms (SNPs) were found to be potentially protein-altering mutations... - Independent origins and rapid evolution of the placenta in the fish genus PoeciliopsisDavid N Reznick
Department of Biology and Center for Conservation Biology, University of California, Riverside, CA 92521, USA
Science 298:1018-20. 2002.... - The evolution of tribospheny and the antiquity of mammalian cladesMichael O Woodburne
Department of Earth Sciences, University of California, Riverside 92521, USA
Mol Phylogenet Evol 28:360-85. 2003..Point estimates for the marsupial-placental split were 182-190 million years based on BRCA1 and 185-187 million years based on the IGF2 receptor. These estimates are fully compatible with the results of our cladistic analyses... - Rod monochromacy and the coevolution of cetacean retinal opsinsRobert W Meredith
Department of Biology, University of California Riverside, Riverside, California, United States of America Department of Biology and Molecular Biology, Montclair State University, Montclair, New Jersey, United States of America
PLoS Genet 9:e1003432. 2013..The knockout of both SWS1 and LWS in multiple cetacean lineages renders these taxa rod monochromats, a condition previously unknown among mammalian species... - Microbat paraphyly and the convergent evolution of a key innovation in Old World rhinolophoid microbatsEmma C Teeling
Department of Biology, University of California, Riverside, CA 92521, USA
Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A 99:1431-6. 2002..An important implication of rhinolophoid polyphyly is independent evolution of key anatomical innovations associated with the nasal-emission of echolocation pulses... - Molecular decay of enamel matrix protein genes in turtles and other edentulous amniotesRobert W Meredith
Department of Biology, University of California, Riverside, CA 92521, USA
BMC Evol Biol 13:20. 2013..The release of the painted turtle and Chinese softshell turtle genomes provides an opportunity to recover the decayed remains of tooth-specific genes in Testudines... - Integrated fossil and molecular data reconstruct bat echolocationM S Springer
Department of Biology, University of California, Riverside, CA 92521, USA
Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A 98:6241-6. 2001..Molecular dating suggests that crown-group bats last shared a common ancestor 52 to 54 million years ago... - Molecular and genomic data identify the closest living relative of primatesJan E Janecka
Department of Veterinary Integrative Biosciences, Texas A and M University, College Station, TX 77843, USA
Science 318:792-4. 2007..Our data show that colugos are the closest living relatives of primates and indicate that their divergence occurred in the Cretaceous... - The use of composite taxa in supermatricesMark S Springer
Mol Phylogenet Evol 30:883-4. 2004 - Molecular phylogeny of living xenarthrans and the impact of character and taxon sampling on the placental tree rootingFrédéric Delsuc
Laboratoire de Paléontologie, Paléobiologie et Phylogénie, Institut des Sciences de l Evolution, Universite Montpellier II, Montpellier, France
Mol Biol Evol 19:1656-71. 2002..By resampling taxa within Xenarthra, the conservative Shimodaira-Hasegawa likelihood-based test of alternative topologies was shown to be sensitive to both character and taxon sampling... - Mesozoic origin for West Indian insectivoresAlfred L Roca
Laboratory of Genomic Diversity, Basic Research Program, SAIC Frederick, National Cancer Institute, Frederick, Maryland 21702, USA
Nature 429:649-51. 2004..Efforts to prevent extinction of the two surviving solenodon species would conserve an entire lineage as old or older than many mammalian orders... - Molecular phylogenetic evidence confirming the Eulipotyphla concept and in support of hedgehogs as the sister group to shrewsChristophe J Douady
Queen's University of Belfast, Biology and Biochemistry, 97 Lisburn Road, Belfast, BT9 7BL, UK
Mol Phylogenet Evol 25:200-9. 2002..Our results provide convincing support for both lipotyphlan diphyly and the monophyly of Eulipotyphla. More surprisingly, we find strong evidence for a sister-group relationship between shrews and hedgehogs to the exclusion of moles... - A molecular phylogeny for bats illuminates biogeography and the fossil recordEmma C Teeling
Laboratory of Genomic Diversity, Basic Research Program, SAIC Frederick, Inc, National Cancer Institute, Frederick, MD 21702, USA
Science 307:580-4. 2005.... - The Sahara as a vicariant agent, and the role of Miocene climatic events, in the diversification of the mammalian order Macroscelidea (elephant shrews)Christophe J Douady
Biology and Biochemistry, Queen's University of Belfast, 97 Lisburn Road, Belfast BT9 7BL, United Kingdom
Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A 100:8325-30. 2003.... - Using genomic data to unravel the root of the placental mammal phylogenyWilliam J Murphy
Department of Veterinary Integrative Biosciences, College of Veterinary Medicine and Biomedical Sciences, Texas A and M University, College Station, TX 77843, USA
Genome Res 17:413-21. 2007..We discuss the impacts of this topology on earlier phylogenetic reconstructions and repeat-based inferences of phylogeny... - Nuclear gene sequences confirm an ancient link between New Zealand's short-tailed bat and South American noctilionoid batsEmma C Teeling
Basic Research Program, Laboratory of Genomic Diversity, SAIC Frederick, National Cancer Institute Inc, Frederick, MD 21702, USA
Mol Phylogenet Evol 28:308-19. 2003..It is most probable that Mystacina dispersed from Australia to New Zealand while other noctilionoid bats either remained in or dispersed to South America... - "Lipotyphlan" phylogeny based on the growth hormone receptor gene: a reanalysisChristophe J Douady
Dalhousie University, Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology, Halifax, Nova Scotia, Canada
Mol Phylogenet Evol 30:778-88. 2004..These results also highlight the potential pitfalls of single-gene and parsimony-only analyses... - Molecular evidence for the monophyly of tenrecidae (mammalia) and the timing of the colonization of Madagascar by Malagasy TenrecsChristophe J Douady
Biology and Biochemistry, Queen's University of Belfast, 97 Lisburn Road, Belfast, BT9 7BL, United Kingdom
Mol Phylogenet Evol 22:357-63. 2002..Molecular clock estimates suggest a split of otter shrews and Malagasy tenrecs at approximately 53 MYA. We estimate that the ancestor of Malagasy tenrecs dispersed to Madagascar subsequent to this split but prior to about 37 MYA... - A family matter: conclusive resolution of the taxonomic position of the long-fingered bats, miniopterusCassandra M Miller-Butterworth
Department of Human Genetics, Graduate School of Public Health, University of Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh, PA, USA
Mol Biol Evol 24:1553-61. 2007..The Molossidae diverged from these lineages approximately 54-43 MYA and form a sister group to the Miniopteridae-Vespertilionidae clade...