Evolutionary history of Carnivora (Mammalia, Laurasiatheria) inferred from mitochondrial genomes.

ABSTRACT: The order Carnivora, which currently includes 296 species classified into 16 families, is distributed across all continents. The phylogeny and the timing of diversification of members of the order are still a matter of debate. Here, complete mitochondrial genomes were analysed to reconstruct the phylogenetic relationships and to estimate divergence times among species of Carnivora. We assembled 51 new mitogenomes from 13 families, and aligned them with available mitogenomes by selecting only those showing more than 1% of nucleotide divergence and excluding those suspected to be of low-quality or from misidentified taxa. Our final alignment included 220 taxa representing 2,442 mitogenomes. Our analyses led to a robust resolution of suprafamilial and intrafamilial relationships. We identifie

SUBMITTER: Hassanin A 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC7886153 | biostudies-literature | 2021

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature