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Bats (order Chiroptera) are one of the few orders of mammals that echolocate and the only group with the capacity for powered flight. The order is subdivided into Microchiroptera and Megachiroptera, with an array of characteristics defining each group, including complex laryngeal echolocation systems in microbats and enhanced visual acuity in megabats. The respective monophylies of the two suborders have been tacitly assumed, although microbat monophyly is uncorroborated by molecular data. Here we present a phylogenetic analysis of bat relationships using DNA sequence data from four nuclear genes and three mitochondrial genes (total of 8,230 base pairs), indicating that microbat families in the superfamily Rhinolophoidea are more closely related to megabats than they are to other microbats. This implies that echolocation systems either evolved independently in rhinolophoids and other microbats or were lost in the evolution of megabats. Our data also reject flying lemur (order Dermoptera) as the bat sister group, indicating that presumed shared derived characters for flying lemurs and bats are convergent features that evolved in association with gliding and flight, respectively. 相似文献
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Scally A Dutheil JY Hillier LW Jordan GE Goodhead I Herrero J Hobolth A Lappalainen T Mailund T Marques-Bonet T McCarthy S Montgomery SH Schwalie PC Tang YA Ward MC Xue Y Yngvadottir B Alkan C Andersen LN Ayub Q Ball EV Beal K Bradley BJ Chen Y Clee CM Fitzgerald S Graves TA Gu Y Heath P Heger A Karakoc E Kolb-Kokocinski A Laird GK Lunter G Meader S Mort M Mullikin JC Munch K O'Connor TD Phillips AD Prado-Martinez J Rogers AS Sajjadian S Schmidt D Shaw K Simpson JT Stenson PD Turner DJ 《Nature》2012,483(7388):169-175
Gorillas are humans' closest living relatives after chimpanzees, and are of comparable importance for the study of human origins and evolution. Here we present the assembly and analysis of a genome sequence for the western lowland gorilla, and compare the whole genomes of all extant great ape genera. We propose a synthesis of genetic and fossil evidence consistent with placing the human-chimpanzee and human-chimpanzee-gorilla speciation events at approximately 6 and 10 million years ago. In 30% of the genome, gorilla is closer to human or chimpanzee than the latter are to each other; this is rarer around coding genes, indicating pervasive selection throughout great ape evolution, and has functional consequences in gene expression. A comparison of protein coding genes reveals approximately 500 genes showing accelerated evolution on each of the gorilla, human and chimpanzee lineages, and evidence for parallel acceleration, particularly of genes involved in hearing. We also compare the western and eastern gorilla species, estimating an average sequence divergence time 1.75 million years ago, but with evidence for more recent genetic exchange and a population bottleneck in the eastern species. The use of the genome sequence in these and future analyses will promote a deeper understanding of great ape biology and evolution. 相似文献
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Mills RE Walter K Stewart C Handsaker RE Chen K Alkan C Abyzov A Yoon SC Ye K Cheetham RK Chinwalla A Conrad DF Fu Y Grubert F Hajirasouliha I Hormozdiari F Iakoucheva LM Iqbal Z Kang S Kidd JM Konkel MK Korn J Khurana E Kural D Lam HY Leng J Li R Li Y Lin CY Luo R Mu XJ Nemesh J Peckham HE Rausch T Scally A Shi X Stromberg MP Stütz AM Urban AE Walker JA Wu J Zhang Y Zhang ZD Batzer MA Ding L Marth GT McVean G Sebat J Snyder M Wang J Ye K Eichler EE Gerstein MB Hurles ME Lee C McCarroll SA 《Nature》2011,470(7332):59-65
Genomic structural variants (SVs) are abundant in humans, differing from other forms of variation in extent, origin and functional impact. Despite progress in SV characterization, the nucleotide resolution architecture of most SVs remains unknown. We constructed a map of unbalanced SVs (that is, copy number variants) based on whole genome DNA sequencing data from 185 human genomes, integrating evidence from complementary SV discovery approaches with extensive experimental validations. Our map encompassed 22,025 deletions and 6,000 additional SVs, including insertions and tandem duplications. Most SVs (53%) were mapped to nucleotide resolution, which facilitated analysing their origin and functional impact. We examined numerous whole and partial gene deletions with a genotyping approach and observed a depletion of gene disruptions amongst high frequency deletions. Furthermore, we observed differences in the size spectra of SVs originating from distinct formation mechanisms, and constructed a map of SV hotspots formed by common mechanisms. Our analytical framework and SV map serves as a resource for sequencing-based association studies. 相似文献
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Parallel adaptive radiations in two major clades of placental mammals 总被引:53,自引:0,他引:53
Madsen O Scally M Douady CJ Kao DJ DeBry RW Adkins R Amrine HM Stanhope MJ de Jong WW Springer MS 《Nature》2001,409(6820):610-614
Higher level relationships among placental mammals, as well as the historical biogeography and morphological diversification of this group, remain unclear. Here we analyse independent molecular data sets, having aligned lengths of DNA of 5,708 and 2,947 base pairs, respectively, for all orders of placental mammals. Phylogenetic analyses resolve placental orders into four groups: Xenarthra, Afrotheria, Laurasiatheria, and Euarchonta plus Glires. The first three groups are consistently monophyletic with different methods of analysis. Euarchonta plus Glires is monophyletic or paraphyletic depending on the phylogenetic method. A unique nine-base-pair deletion in exon 11 of the BRCA1 gene provides additional support for the monophyly of Afrotheria, which includes proboscideans, sirenians, hyracoids, tubulidentates, macroscelideans, chrysochlorids and tenrecids. Laurasiatheria contains cetartiodactyls, perissodactyls, carnivores, pangolins, bats and eulipotyphlan insectivores. Parallel adaptive radiations have occurred within Laurasiatheria and Afrotheria. In each group, there are aquatic, ungulate and insectivore-like forms. 相似文献
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