{"database":"biostudies-literature","file_versions":[],"scores":null,"additional":{"omics_type":["Unknown"],"submitter":["Bowman J"],"funding":["NIA NIH HHS"],"pubmed_abstract":["Phylogenetic studies have resolved most relationships among <i>Eutherian</i> Orders. However, the branching order of elephants (<i>Proboscidea</i>), hyraxes (<i>Hyracoidea</i>), and sea cows (<i>Sirenia</i>) (i.e., the <i>Paenungulata</i>) has remained uncertain since at least 1758, when Linnaeus grouped elephants and manatees into a single Order (<i>Bruta</i>) to the exclusion of hyraxes. Subsequent morphological, molecular, and large-scale phylogenomic datasets have reached conflicting conclusions on the branching order within <i>Paenungulates</i>. We use a phylogenomic dataset of alignments from 13,388 protein-coding genes across 261 <i>Eutherian</i> mammals to infer phylogenetic relationships within <i>Paenungulates</i>. We find that gene trees almost equally support the three alternat"],"journal":["bioRxiv : the preprint server for biology"],"pagination":["2023.12.07.570590"],"full_dataset_link":["https://www.ebi.ac.uk/biostudies/studies/S-EPMC10723481"],"repository":["biostudies-literature"],"pubmed_title":["Phylogenomics reveals an almost perfect polytomy among the almost ungulates (<i>Paenungulata</i>)."],"pmcid":["PMC10723481"],"funding_grant_id":["R56 AG071860"],"pubmed_authors":["Enard D","Bowman J","Lynch VJ"],"additional_accession":[]},"is_claimable":false,"name":"Phylogenomics reveals an almost perfect polytomy among the almost ungulates (<i>Paenungulata</i>).","description":"Phylogenetic studies have resolved most relationships among <i>Eutherian</i> Orders. However, the branching order of elephants (<i>Proboscidea</i>), hyraxes (<i>Hyracoidea</i>), and sea cows (<i>Sirenia</i>) (i.e., the <i>Paenungulata</i>) has remained uncertain since at least 1758, when Linnaeus grouped elephants and manatees into a single Order (<i>Bruta</i>) to the exclusion of hyraxes. Subsequent morphological, molecular, and large-scale phylogenomic datasets have reached conflicting conclusions on the branching order within <i>Paenungulates</i>. We use a phylogenomic dataset of alignments from 13,388 protein-coding genes across 261 <i>Eutherian</i> mammals to infer phylogenetic relationships within <i>Paenungulates</i>. We find that gene trees almost equally support the three alternat","dates":{"release":"2023-01-01T00:00:00Z","publication":"2023 Dec","modification":"2025-04-22T01:59:02.406Z","creation":"2024-12-04T01:25:14.75Z"},"accession":"S-EPMC10723481","cross_references":{"pubmed":["38106080"],"doi":["10.1101/2023.12.07.570590"]}}