Boreoeutheria

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Boreoeutheria
Temporal range: Late Cretaceous to present
From top to right: European hedgehog, Lyle's flying fox, tiger, Indian pangolin, red deer and white rhino. Representing the orders: Eulipotyphla, Chiroptera, Carnivora, Pholidota, Artiodactyla and Perissodactyla, comprising Laurasiatheria.
From top to right: Desmarest's hutia, Sunda colugo, brown rat, European hare, lar gibbon, human playing with a rabbit, ring-tailed lemur, and a common treeshrew. Representing the orders: Dermoptera, Rodentia, Primates, Lagomorpha, and Scandentia, comprising Euarchontoglires.
Scientific classification Edit this classification
Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Chordata
Class: Mammalia
Clade: Eutheria
Infraclass: Placentalia
Magnorder: Boreoeutheria
Springer & de Jong, 2001;[2] Murphy et al., 2001[3]
Superorders
Synonyms
  • Boreoplacentalia (Arnason, 2008)[4]
  • Boreotheria (Waddell, 2001)[5]

Boreoeutheria (/boʊˌriːoʊjuːˈθɛriə/, "northern eutherians") is a magnorder of placental mammals that groups together superorders Euarchontoglires and Laurasiatheria.[2][3][6] The clade includes species as diverse as giraffes, pigs, zebras, rhinos, dogs, cats, rabbits, mice, squirrels, bats, whales, dolphins, lemurs, and monkeys (includes humans and other apes).

With a few exceptions,[a] male boreoeutherians have a scrotum, an ancestral feature of the clade.[7][8] The sub-clade Scrotifera was named after this feature.[9]

Etymology

The name of this magnorder comes from Ancient Greek words:

  • Βορέας (Boreas) meaning 'north wind' or 'the North',
  • εὐ- (eu-) meaning 'good', 'right', or 'true',
  • and θηρίον (thēríon) meaning 'beast'.

Boreoeutherian ancestor

The majority of earliest known fossils belonging to this group date to about 66 million years ago, shortly after the K-Pg extinction event, though molecular data suggest they may have originated earlier, during the Cretaceous period.[10][11] This is further supported with the earliest dated species of the pan-euungulate genus Protungulatum[1] (P. coombsi about 70.6 to 66.043 Ma., and P. gorgun about 70.6 to 63.8 Ma.), along side pan-carnivoran species Altacreodus magnus (about 70.6 to 66.043 Ma.), periptychid species Paleoungulatum hooleyi (about 70.6 to 66.043 Ma.), and arctocyonid species Baioconodon nordicus (about 70.6 to 63.8 Ma.).[12]

The common ancestor of Boreoeutheria lived between 107 and 90 million years ago.[10] The concept of a boreoeutherian ancestor was first proposed in 2004 in the journal Genome Research.[13][14] The paper's authors claimed that the genome sequence of the boreoeutherian ancestor could be computationally predicted with 98% accuracy, but would "take a few years and a lot of money". It is estimated to contain three billion base pairs.[13]

Classification and phylogeny

Taxonomy

Phylogeny

The phylogenetic relationships of magnorder Boreoeutheria are shown in the following cladogram, reconstructed from mitochondrial and nuclear DNA and protein characters, as well as the fossil record.[5][10][11][15][16][17][18]

Placentalia

See also

Notes

  1. ^ Exceptional clades whose males lack the usual boreoeutherian scrotum are moles, hedgehogs, pangolins, some pinnipeds, rhinoceroses, tapirs, hippopotamuses, and cetaceans.
  2. ^ Florentino Ameghino in 1905. placed this genus in Talpidae, but in 1974. John Howard Hutchison classified it as rodent. Currently, Veratalpa is classified as a member of Placentalia of uncertain affinities, according to 1997. "Classification of Mammals" by Malcolm McKenna and Susan Bell.

References

  1. ^ a b Archibald, J. David; Zhang, Yue; Harper, Tony; Cifelli, Richard L. (May 6, 2011). "Protungulatum, confirmed Cretaceous occurrence of an otherwise Paleocene eutherian (placental?) mammal" (PDF). Journal of Mammalian Evolution. 18 (3): 153–161. doi:10.1007/s10914-011-9162-1. S2CID 16724836. Archived from the original (PDF) on March 3, 2016. Retrieved April 28, 2013.
  2. ^ a b Springer MS, de Jong WW (2001). "Which mammalian supertree to bark up?". Science. 291 (5509): 1709–1711. doi:10.1126/science.1059434. PMID 11253193. S2CID 82844572.
  3. ^ a b Murphy WJ, Eizirik E, O'Brien SJ, Madsen O, Scally M, Douady CJ, et al. (December 2001). "Resolution of the early placental mammal radiation using Bayesian phylogenetics". Science. 294 (5550): 2348–2351. Bibcode:2001Sci...294.2348M. doi:10.1126/science.1067179. PMID 11743200. S2CID 34367609.
  4. ^ Arnason U., Adegoke J. A., Gullberg A., Harley E. H., Janke A., Kullberg M. (2008.) "Mitogenomic relationships of placental mammals and molecular estimates of their divergences." Gene.; 421(1-2):37–51
  5. ^ a b Waddell, Peter J.; Kishino, Hirohisa; Ota, Rissa (2001). "A phylogenetic foundation for comparative mammalian genomics". Genome Informatics. 12: 141–154. PMID 11791233. Archived from the original on 2019-07-10. Retrieved 2021-08-09.
  6. ^ Scally M, Madsen O, Douady CJ, de Jong WW, Stanhope MJ, Springer MS (2001). "Molecular evidence for the major clades of placental mammals". Journal of Mammalian Evolution. 8 (4): 239–277. doi:10.1023/A:1014446915393. S2CID 24199924.
  7. ^ Mills, D. S.; Marchant-Forde, Jeremy N. (2010). The Encyclopedia of Applied Animal Behaviour and Welfare. CABI. p. 293. ISBN 978-0-85199-724-7. Retrieved 20 June 2019.
  8. ^ Drew, Liam (8 July 2013). "Why are testicles kept in a vulnerable dangling sac?". slate.com. Between these branches, however, is where it gets interesting, for there are numerous groups, our descended but a-scrotal cousins, whose testes drop down away from the kidneys but don't exit the abdomen. Almost certainly, these animals evolved from ancestors whose testes were external, which means at some point they backtracked..., evolving anew gonads inside the abdomen. They are a ragtag bunch including hedgehogs, moles, rhinos and tapirs, hippopotamuses, dolphins and whales, some seals and walruses, and scaly anteaters.
  9. ^ Waddell; et al. (1999). "Using novel phylogenetic methods to evaluate mammalian mtDNA, including amino acid-invariant sites-LogDet plus site stripping, to detect internal conflicts in the data, with special reference to the positions of hedgehog, armadillo, and elephant". Systematic Biology. 48 (1): 31–53. doi:10.1080/106351599260427. PMID 12078643. The name comes from the word scrotum a pouch in which the testes permanently reside in the adult male. All members of the group have a postpenile scrotum, often prominently displayed, except for some aquatic forms and pangolins (which have the testes just below the skin). It appears to be an ancestral character for this group, yet other orders generally lack this as an ancestral feature, with the probable exception of Primates.
  10. ^ a b c Zhou, X.; Xu, S.; Xu, J.; Chen, B.; Zhou, K.; Yang, G. (2012). "Phylogenomic Analysis Resolves the Interordinal Relationships and Rapid Diversification of the Laurasiatherian Mammals" (PDF). Systematic Biology. 61 (1): 150–164. doi:10.1093/sysbio/syr089. ISSN 1063-5157. PMC 3243735. PMID 21900649.
  11. ^ a b O'Leary, M. A.; Bloch, J. I.; Flynn, J. J.; Gaudin, T. J.; Giallombardo, A.; Giannini, N. P.; Cirranello, A. L. (2013). "The placental mammal ancestor and the post–K-Pg radiation of placentals". Science. 339 (6120): 662–667. Bibcode:2013Sci...339..662O. doi:10.1126/science.1229237. hdl:11336/7302. PMID 23393258. S2CID 206544776.
  12. ^ Carlisle, E.; Janis, C. M.; Pisani, D.; Donoghue, P. C. J.; Silvestro, D. (2023). "A timescale for placental mammal diversification based on Bayesian modeling of the fossil record". Current Biology. doi:10.1016/j.cub.2023.06.016. PMC 7617171.
  13. ^ a b John Roach (25 Jan 2005). "Scientists recreate genome of ancient human ancestor". National Geographic. Archived from the original on March 21, 2006. Retrieved 14 Feb 2015.
  14. ^ Mathieu Blanchette; Eric D. Green; Webb Miller; David Haussler (2004). "Reconstructing large regions of an ancestral mammalian genome in silico". Genome Research. 14 (12): 2412–2423. doi:10.1101/gr.2800104. PMC 534665. PMID 15574820.
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  16. ^ Esselstyn, Jacob A.; Oliveros, Carl H.; Swanson, Mark T.; Faircloth, Brant C. (2017-08-26). "Investigating Difficult Nodes in the Placental Mammal Tree with Expanded Taxon Sampling and Thousands of Ultraconserved Elements". Genome Biology and Evolution. 9 (9): 2308–2321. doi:10.1093/gbe/evx168. ISSN 1759-6653. PMC 5604124. PMID 28934378.
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