Palaeoproteomics resolves sloth relationships.

Autor: Presslee S; Department of Archaeology and BioArCh, University of York, Heslington, UK.; Department of Mammalogy, American Museum of Natural History, New York, NY, USA.; Paleoproteomics Group, Natural History Museum of Denmark and University of Copenhagen, Copenhagen, Denmark., Slater GJ; Department of the Geophysical Sciences, University of Chicago, Chicago, IL, USA., Pujos F; Instituto Argentino de Nivología, Glaciología y Ciencias Ambientales, CCT-CONICET-Mendoza, Mendoza, Argentina., Forasiepi AM; Instituto Argentino de Nivología, Glaciología y Ciencias Ambientales, CCT-CONICET-Mendoza, Mendoza, Argentina., Fischer R; Target Discovery Institute, Nuffield Department of Medicine, University of Oxford, Oxford, UK., Molloy K; Chait Laboratory and National Resource for the Mass Spectrometric Analysis of Biological Macromolecules, The Rockefeller University, New York, NY, USA., Mackie M; Paleoproteomics Group, Natural History Museum of Denmark and University of Copenhagen, Copenhagen, Denmark.; Novo Nordisk Foundation Center for Protein Research, Copenhagen, Denmark., Olsen JV; Novo Nordisk Foundation Center for Protein Research, Copenhagen, Denmark., Kramarz A; Sección Paleovertebrados, Museo Argentino de Ciencias Naturales 'Bernardino Rivadavia', Buenos Aires, Argentina., Taglioretti M; Museo Municipal de Ciencias Naturales 'Lorenzo Scaglia', Mar del Plata, Argentina., Scaglia F; Museo Municipal de Ciencias Naturales 'Lorenzo Scaglia', Mar del Plata, Argentina., Lezcano M; Instituto de Investigaciones en Diversidad Cultural y Procesos de Cambio, CONICET and Universidad Nacional de Río Negro, Bariloche, Argentina., Lanata JL; Instituto de Investigaciones en Diversidad Cultural y Procesos de Cambio, CONICET and Universidad Nacional de Río Negro, Bariloche, Argentina., Southon J; Keck-CCAMS Group, Earth System Science Department, University of California, Irvine, Irvine, CA, USA., Feranec R; New York State Museum, Albany, NY, USA., Bloch J; Florida Museum of Natural History, University of Florida, Gainesville, FL, USA., Hajduk A; Museo de la Patagonia 'F. P. Moreno', Bariloche, Argentina., Martin FM; Centro de Estudios del Hombre Austral, Instituto de la Patagonia, Universidad de Magallanes, Punta Arenas, Chile., Salas Gismondi R; BioGeoCiencias Lab, Facultad de Ciencias y Filosofía/CIDIS, Universidad Peruana Cayetano Heredia, Lima, Peru., Reguero M; CONICET and División Paleontología de Vertebrados, Museo de La Plata. Facultad de Ciencias Naturales, Universidad Nacional de La Plata, La Plata, Argentina., de Muizon C; Centre de Recherches sur la Paléobiodiversité et les Paléoenvironnements, Muséum national d'Histoire naturelle, Paris, France., Greenwood A; Leibniz Institute for Zoo and Wildlife Research, Berlin, Germany.; Department of Veterinary Medicine, Freie Universität Berlin, Berlin, Germany., Chait BT; Chait Laboratory and National Resource for the Mass Spectrometric Analysis of Biological Macromolecules, The Rockefeller University, New York, NY, USA., Penkman K; Department of Chemistry, University of York, Heslington, UK., Collins M; Paleoproteomics Group, Natural History Museum of Denmark and University of Copenhagen, Copenhagen, Denmark.; McDonald Institute for Archaeological Research, University of Cambridge, Cambridge, UK., MacPhee RDE; Department of Mammalogy, American Museum of Natural History, New York, NY, USA. macphee@amnh.org.
Jazyk: angličtina
Zdroj: Nature ecology & evolution [Nat Ecol Evol] 2019 Jul; Vol. 3 (7), pp. 1121-1130. Date of Electronic Publication: 2019 Jun 06.
DOI: 10.1038/s41559-019-0909-z
Abstrakt: The living tree sloths Choloepus and Bradypus are the only remaining members of Folivora, a major xenarthran radiation that occupied a wide range of habitats in many parts of the western hemisphere during the Cenozoic, including both continents and the West Indies. Ancient DNA evidence has played only a minor role in folivoran systematics, as most sloths lived in places not conducive to genomic preservation. Here we utilize collagen sequence information, both separately and in combination with published mitochondrial DNA evidence, to assess the relationships of tree sloths and their extinct relatives. Results from phylogenetic analysis of these datasets differ substantially from morphology-based concepts: Choloepus groups with Mylodontidae, not Megalonychidae; Bradypus and Megalonyx pair together as megatherioids, while monophyletic Antillean sloths may be sister to all other folivorans. Divergence estimates are consistent with fossil evidence for mid-Cenozoic presence of sloths in the West Indies and an early Miocene radiation in South America.
Databáze: MEDLINE
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