Muroid rodent phylogenetics: 900-species tree reveals increasing diversification rates.

ABSTRACT: We combined new sequence data for more than 300 muroid rodent species with our previously published sequences for up to five nuclear and one mitochondrial genes to generate the most widely and densely sampled hypothesis of evolutionary relationships across Muroidea. An exhaustive screening procedure for publically available sequences was implemented to avoid the propagation of taxonomic errors that are common to supermatrix studies. The combined data set of carefully screened sequences derived from all available sequences on GenBank with our new data resulted in a robust maximum likelihood phylogeny for 900 of the approximately 1,620 muroids. Several regions that were equivocally resolved in previous studies are now more decisively resolved, and we estimated a chronogram using 28 fossil ca

SUBMITTER: Steppan SJ 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC5559066 | biostudies-literature | 2017

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature