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dc.contributor.authordos Reis, Men_US
dc.contributor.authorDonoghue, PCJen_US
dc.contributor.authorYang, Zen_US
dc.date.accessioned2016-08-05T14:40:25Z
dc.date.issued2014-01en_US
dc.date.submitted2016-05-02T20:15:52.046Z
dc.identifier.urihttp://qmro.qmul.ac.uk/xmlui/handle/123456789/13900
dc.description.abstractO'Leary et al. (O'Leary et al. 2013 Science 339, 662-667. (doi:10.1126/science.1229237)) performed a fossil-only dating analysis of mammals, concluding that the ancestor of placentals post-dated the Cretaceous-Palaeogene boundary, contradicting previous palaeontological and molecular studies that placed the ancestor in the Cretaceous. They incorrectly used fossil ages as species divergence times for crown groups, while in fact the former should merely form minimum-age bounds for the latter. Statistical analyses of the fossil record have shown that crown groups are significantly older than the oldest ingroup fossil, so that fossils do not directly reflect the true ages of clades. Here, we analyse a 20 million nucleotide genome-scale alignment in conjunction with a probabilistic interpretation of the fossil ages from O'Leary et al. Our combined analysis of fossils and molecules demonstrates that Placentalia originated in the Cretaceous.en_US
dc.description.sponsorshipThis work was financially supported by BBSRC grant no. BB/J009709/1.en_US
dc.format.extent20131003 - ?en_US
dc.languageengen_US
dc.relation.ispartofBiol Letten_US
dc.rightsPublished by the Royal Society under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/, which permits unrestricted use, provided the original author and source are credited.
dc.subjectdivergence timeen_US
dc.subjectfossilen_US
dc.subjectplacental mammalen_US
dc.subjectAnimalsen_US
dc.subjectFemaleen_US
dc.subjectMammalsen_US
dc.subjectPhylogenyen_US
dc.subjectPlacentaen_US
dc.subjectPregnancyen_US
dc.titleNeither phylogenomic nor palaeontological data support a Palaeogene origin of placental mammals.en_US
dc.typeArticle
dc.rights.holder(c) 2014 The Authors.
dc.identifier.doi10.1098/rsbl.2013.1003en_US
pubs.author-urlhttps://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/24429684en_US
pubs.issue1en_US
pubs.notesNot knownen_US
pubs.notesInitial upload not completed by author, 02/05/2016; completed on behalf of the author, 14/07/2016, SMen_US
pubs.publication-statusPublished onlineen_US
pubs.volume10en_US


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