Retroposed elements as archives for the evolutionary history of placental mammals

• Published in: PLoS biology Vol. 4; no. 4; p. e91
• Main Authors: Kriegs, Jan Ole, Churakov, Gennady, Kiefmann, Martin, Jordan, Ursula, Brosius, Jürgen, Schmitz, Jürgen
• Format: Journal Article
• Language: English
• Published: United States Public Library of Science 01.04.2006; Public Library of Science (PLoS)
• Subjects: Animals; Base Sequence; Bioinformatics/Computational Biology; Evolution; Evolution, Molecular; Experiments; Genetics; Genetics/Genomics/Gene Therapy; Genomes; Humans; Hypotheses; Laurasiatheria; Mammals; Mammals - genetics; Mammals - physiology; Molecular Sequence Data; Mutation; Phylogenetics; Placenta - physiology; Retroelements - genetics; Sequence Alignment; Xenarthra; Sequence Alignment; Animals; Placenta; Retroelements; Base Sequence; Humans; Molecular Sequence Data; Mammals; Evolution, Molecular

Reconstruction of the placental mammalian (eutherian) evolutionary tree has undergone diverse revisions, and numerous aspects remain hotly debated. Initial hierarchical divisions based on morphology contained many misgroupings due to features that evolved independently by similar selection processes...