biostudies-literatureUnknown7Seiffert ER<h4>Background</h4>The placental mammalian clade Afrotheria is now supported by diverse forms of genomic data, but interordinal relationships within, and morphological support for, the group remains elusive. As a means for addressing these outstanding problems, competing hypotheses of afrotherian interordinal relationships were tested through simultaneous parsimony analysis of a large data set (> 4,590 parsimony informative characters) containing genomic data (> 17 kb of nucleotide data, chromosomal associations, and retroposons) and 400 morphological characters scored across 16 extant and 35 extinct afrotherians.<h4>Results</h4>Parsimony analysis of extant taxa alone recovered the interordinal topology (Afrosoricida, ((Macroscelidea, Tubulidentata), (Hyracoidea, (Proboscidea, Sirenia)))).BMC evolutionary biology224https://www.ebi.ac.uk/biostudies/studies/S-EPMC2248600biostudies-literatureA new estimate of afrotherian phylogeny based on simultaneous analysis of genomic, morphological, and fossil evidence.PMC2248600Seiffert ERfalseA new estimate of afrotherian phylogeny based on simultaneous analysis of genomic, morphological, and fossil evidence.<h4>Background</h4>The placental mammalian clade Afrotheria is now supported by diverse forms of genomic data, but interordinal relationships within, and morphological support for, the group remains elusive. As a means for addressing these outstanding problems, competing hypotheses of afrotherian interordinal relationships were tested through simultaneous parsimony analysis of a large data set (> 4,590 parsimony informative characters) containing genomic data (> 17 kb of nucleotide data, chromosomal associations, and retroposons) and 400 morphological characters scored across 16 extant and 35 extinct afrotherians.<h4>Results</h4>Parsimony analysis of extant taxa alone recovered the interordinal topology (Afrosoricida, ((Macroscelidea, Tubulidentata), (Hyracoidea, (Proboscidea, Sirenia)))).2007-01-01T00:00:00Z2007 Nov2025-04-18T17:59:40.565Z2019-03-27T02:44:10ZS-EPMC22486001799976610.1186/1471-2148-7-224