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| Molecular systematics of the South American caviomorph rodents: relationships among species and genera in the family Octodontidae |
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| Author(s): Honeycutt RL, Rowe DL, Gallardo MH |
| Source: MOLECULAR PHYLOGENETICS AND EVOLUTION Volume: 26 Issue: 3 Pages: 476-489 Published: MAR 2003 |
| Times Cited: 31 References: 70 |
| Abstract: Nucleotide sequences from mitochondrial (12S rRNA) and nuclear (growth hormone receptor) genes were used to investigate phylogenetic relationships among South American hystricognath rodents of the superfamily Octodontoidea, with special emphasis on the family Octodontidae. Relationships among most taxa were well resolved by a combined analysis of both genes, and the molecular phylogeny was used to address several long-standing phylogenetic problems. The family Abrocomidae was the most basal lineage within the superfamily Octodontoidea, sensu stricto, and the family Ctenomyidae was sister to the family Octodontidae, followed by a monophyletic group containing the families Myocastoridae and Echimyidae. A basic dichotomy was observed within the family Octodontidae. The Argentine desert specialists, Tympanoctomys and Octomys, grouped separate from Octodontomys, which was sister to a clade containing a monophyletic Octodon and a clade represented by species of Aconaemys and Spalacopus. Aconaemys was paraphyletic relative to Spalacopus. The phylogeny was used as an interpretive framework for an examination of variation in several non-molecular characters. The primitive diploid number for most of the octodontoids was determined to be between 46 and 56, and the primitive genome size 8.2 pg. Members of the Octodontidae appeared to be derived from an ancestral stock occupying lower elevations in scrub habitat. Furthermore, estimates of divergence time from the molecular data provided a temporal perspective for changes in plant communities, which demonstrated turnover and diversification in response to climatic and geologic events occurring in the Miocene through the Pleistocene. (C) 2002 Elsevier Science (USA). All rights reserved. |
| Document Type: Article |
| Language: English |
| Reprint Address: Honeycutt, RL (reprint author), Texas A&M Univ, Fac Genet, 2258 TAMUS,210 Nagle Hall, College Stn, TX 77843 USA |
Addresses:
1. Texas A&M Univ, Fac Genet, College Stn, TX 77843 USA
2. Texas A&M Univ, Dept Wildlife & Fisheries Sci, College Stn, TX 77843 USA
3. Univ Austral Chile, Inst Ecol & Evoluc, Valdivia, Chile |
| Publisher: ACADEMIC PRESS INC ELSEVIER SCIENCE, 525 B ST, STE 1900, SAN DIEGO, CA 92101-4495 USA |
| Subject Category: Biochemistry & Molecular Biology; Evolutionary Biology; Genetics & Heredity |
| IDS Number: 661HQ |
| ISSN: 1055-7903 |
| DOI: 10.1016/S1055-7903(02)00368-8 |
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