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Indel Evolution of Mammalian Introns and the Utility of Non-coding Nuclear Markers in Eutherian Phylogenetics by Conrad A. Matthee; Geeta Eick; Sandi Willows-Munro; Claudine Montgelard; Amanda T. Pardini; Terence J. Robinson is a Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology article available to read on EtoBox.
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Nuclear DNA intron sequences are increasingly used to investigate evolutionary relationships among closely related organisms. The phylogenetic usefulness of intron sequences at higher taxonomic levels has, however, not been Wrmly established and very few studies have used these markers to address evolutionary questions above the family level. In addition, the mechanisms driving intron evolution are not well understood. We compared DNA sequence data derived from three presumably independently segregating introns (THY, PRKC I and MGF) across 158 mammalian species. All currently recognized extant eutherian mammalian orders were included with the exception of Cingulata, Dermoptera and Scandentia. The total aligned length of the data was 6366 base pairs (bp); after the exclusion of autapomorphic insertions, 1511 bp were analyzed. In many instances the Bayesian and parsimony analyses were complementary and gave signiWcant posterior probability and bootstrap support (>80) for the monophyly of Afrotheria, Euarchontoglires, Laurasiatheria and Boreoeutheria. Apart from Wnding congruent support when using these methods, the intron data also provided several indels longer than 3 bp that suppor
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- Author
- Conrad A. Matthee; Geeta Eick; Sandi Willows-Munro; Claudine Montgelard; Amanda T. Pardini; Terence J. Robinson
- Publisher
- Elsevier Science; Elsevier ; Elsevier Inc.; Elsevier BV (ISSN 1055-7903)
- Published
- 2007
- Language
- EN
- Field
- Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology (Life Sciences)