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Mammalian mitogenomic relationships and the root of the eutherian tree

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A mitogenomic study based on the set of protein-coding genes from complete mt genomes of 60 mammalian species finds that the previously unrepresented order Dermoptera (flying lemurs) fell within Primates as the sister group of Anthropoidea, making Primates paraphyletic.
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Pinniped phylogeny and a new hypothesis for their origin and dispersal.

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Mitogenomic analyses provide new insights into cetacean origin and evolution.

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Mitogenomic relationships of placental mammals and molecular estimates of their divergences.

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Mitogenomic analyses of caniform relationships.

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Molecular Timing of Primate Divergences as Estimated by Two Nonprimate Calibration Points

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The findings show that recalculation is necessary of all molecular datings based directly or indirectly on a Cercopithecoidea/Hominoidea split 30 MYBP, and all hominoid divergences receive a much earlier dating.
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The Mitochondrial Genome of the Sperm Whale and a New Molecular Reference for Estimating Eutherian Divergence Dates

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The complete mitochondrial genome of an odontocete, the sperm whale, is sequenced and included in phylogenetic analyses together with the previously sequenced complete mtDNAs of two mysticetes and a number of other mammals, making both Artiodactyla and Suiformes (pigs, peccaries, and hippopotamuses) paraphyletic.
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Mitogenomic Analyses Place the Gharial (Gavialis gangeticus) on the Crocodile Tree and Provide Pre-K/T Divergence Times for Most Crocodilians

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A molecular dating of the divergence between Alligatoridae and Crocodylidae suggests that this basal split among recent crocodilians took place ≈140 million years before present, at the Jurassic/Cretaceous boundary.
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Cetacean mitochondrial DNA control region: sequences of all extant baleen whales and two sperm whale species.

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The findings suggest that the Antarctic minke whale should have a full species status, B. bonaerensis, and a close relationship between the gray whale (family Eschrichtiidae) sequence and those of the rorquals (family Balaenopteridae).
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Cytochrome b nucleotide sequences and the identification of five primary lineages of extant cetaceans.

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The level of divergence among the five cetacean lineages, and that seen between cetraceans and artiodactyls, suggests that cetACEans andArtiodactylls had a common ancestor approximately 60 Mya.
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