The systematics of the Cervidae: a total evidence approach [PDF]
PeerJ, 2020 Systematic relationships of cervids have been controversial for decades. Despite new input from molecular systematics, consensus could only be partially reached.
Nicola S. Heckeberg
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Total evidence phylogeny and evolutionary timescale for Australian faunivorous marsupials (Dasyuromorphia) [PDF]
BMC Evolutionary Biology, 2017 Background The order Dasyuromorphia is a diverse radiation of faunivorous marsupials, comprising >80 modern species in Australia and New Guinea. It includes dasyurids, the numbat (the myrmecobiid Myrmecobius fasciatus) and the recently extinct thylacine (
Shimona Kealy, Robin Beck
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Bayesian Total-Evidence Dating Reveals the Recent Crown Radiation of Penguins. [PDF]
Syst Biol, 2017 The total-evidence approach to divergence-time dating uses molecular and morphological data from extant and fossil species to infer phylogenetic relationships, species divergence times, and macroevolutionary parameters in a single coherent framework ...
Gavryushkina A +5 more
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Bayesian Total-Evidence Dating Revisits Sloth Phylogeny and Biogeography: A Cautionary Tale on Morphological Clock Analyses. [PDF]
Syst Biol, 2023 Combining morphological and molecular characters through Bayesian total-evidence dating allows inferring the phylogenetic and timescale framework of both extant and fossil taxa, while accounting for the stochasticity and incompleteness of the fossil ...
Tejada JV +6 more
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Total evidence time-scaled phylogenetic and biogeographic models for the evolution of sea cows (Sirenia, Afrotheria). [PDF]
PeerJ, 2022 Molecular phylogenetic studies that have included sirenians from the genera Trichechus, Dugong, and Hydrodamalis have resolved their interrelationships but have yielded divergence age estimates that are problematically discordant.
Heritage S, Seiffert ER.
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Revisiting proboscidean phylogeny and evolution through total evidence and palaeogenetic analyses including Notiomastodon ancient DNA. [PDF]
iScience, 2022 Summary The extinct Gomphotheriidae is the only proboscidean family that colonized South America. The phylogenetic position of the endemic taxa has been through several revisions using morphological comparisons.
Baleka S +7 more
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Inferring the Total-Evidence Timescale of Marattialean Fern Evolution in the Face of Model Sensitivity. [PDF]
Syst Biol, 2021 Phylogenetic divergence-time estimation has been revolutionized by two recent developments: 1) total-evidence dating (or “tip-dating”) approaches that allow for the incorporation of fossils as tips in the analysis, with their phylogenetic and temporal ...
May MR +5 more
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Mind the Outgroup and Bare Branches in Total-Evidence Dating: a Case Study of Pimpliform Darwin Wasps (Hymenoptera, Ichneumonidae). [PDF]
Syst Biol, 2021 Taxon sampling is a central aspect of phylogenetic study design, but it has received limited attention in the context of total-evidence dating, a widely used dating approach that directly integrates molecular and morphological information from extant and
Spasojevic T +6 more
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Total evidence phylogeny of Pontederiaceae (Commelinales) sheds light on the necessity of its recircumscription and synopsis of Pontederia L. [PDF]
PhytoKeys, 2018 A total evidence phylogeny for Pontederiaceae is herein presented based on new morphological and previously published molecular data. Our results led us to re-circumscribe Pontederia to include Monochoria, Pontederias.s.
Pellegrini MOO, Horn CN, Almeida RF.
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Total-Evidence Framework Reveals Complex Morphological Evolution in Nightbirds (Strisores)
Diversity, 2019 Strisores is a clade of neoavian birds that include diurnal aerial specialists such as swifts and hummingbirds, as well as several predominantly nocturnal lineages such as nightjars and potoos.
Albert Chen +4 more
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