A new perspective on the taxonomy and systematics of Arvicolinae (Gray, 1821) and a new time-calibrated phylogeny for the clade.

ABSTRACT:

Background

Arvicoline rodents are one of the most speciose and rapidly evolving mammalian lineages. Fossil arvicolines are also among the most common vertebrate fossils found in sites of Pliocene and Pleistocene age in Eurasia and North America. However, there is no taxonomically robust, well-supported, time-calibrated phylogeny for the group.

Methods

Here we present well-supported hypotheses of arvicoline rodent systematics using maximum likelihood and Bayesian inference of DNA sequences of two mitochondrial genes and three nuclear genes representing 146 (82% coverage) species and 100% of currently recognized arvicoline genera. We elucidate well-supported major clades, reviewed the relationships and taxonomy of many species and genera, and critically compared our resulting

SUBMITTER: Withnell CB 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC10785794 | biostudies-literature | 2024

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature