Order Macroscelidea (organism)

Within the Macroscelidea 15 species of elephant-shrews are recognized, of which nine occur in the southern African subregion. The… Expand

Higher-level relationships among placental mammals, as well as the historical biogeography of this group against the backdrop of… Expand

The purpose of this data set was to compile body mass information for all mammals on Earth so that we could investigate the… Expand

The purpose of this data set was to compile general life history characteristics for a variety of mammalian species in order to… Expand

Although the Sahara is a major geographical feature of the African continent, its role in the diversification of animal species… Expand

The strict orthology of mitochondrial (mt) coding sequences has promoted their use in phylogenetic analyses at different levels… Expand

For more than a century, living insectivore-like mammals have been viewed as little removed from the ancestral mammalian stock… Expand

The interordinal relationships of eutherian (placental) mammals were evaluated by a phylogenetic analysis of four published data… Expand

We concatenated sequences for four mitochondrial genes (12S rRNA, tRNA valine, 16S rRNA, cytochrome b) and four nuclear genes… Expand

Until a few decades ago, phylogenetic relationships among placental orders were ambiguous and usually depicted to radiate as an… Expand