Interordinal gene capture, the phylogenetic position of Steller's sea cow based on molecular and morphological data, and the macroevolutionary history of Sirenia.
Interordinal gene capture, the phylogenetic position of Steller's sea cow based on molecular and morphological data, and the macroevolutionary history of Sirenia.
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序间基因捕获、基于分子和形态学数据的虎头海牛的系统发育位置,以及海牛的宏观进化历史。
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10.1016/j.ympev.2015.05.022
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发表时间:
2015
影响因子:
4.1
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Springer MS
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Springer MS
The recently extinct (ca. 1768) Steller’s sea cow (Hydrodamalis gigas) was a large, edentulous North Pacific sirenian. The phylogenetic affinities of this taxon to other members of this clade, living and extinct, are uncertain based on previous morphological and molecular studies. We employed hybridization capture methods and second generation sequencing technology to obtain >30 kb of exon sequences from 26 nuclear genes for bothH. gigasandDugong dugon. We also obtained complete coding sequences for the tooth-related enamelin (ENAM) gene. Hybridization probes designed using dugong and manatee sequences were both highly effective in retrieving sequences fromH. gigas(mean = 98.8% coverage), as were more divergent probes for regions ofENAM(99.0% coverage) that were designed exclusively from a proboscidean (African elephant) and a hyracoid (Cape hyrax). New sequences were combined with available sequences for representatives of all other afrotherian orders. We also expanded a previously published morphological matrix for living and fossil Sirenia by adding both new taxa and nine new postcranial characters. Maximum likelihood and parsimony analyses of the molecular data provide robust support for an association ofH. gigasandD. dugonto the exclusion of living trichechids (manatees). Parsimony analyses of the morphological data also support the inclusion ofH. gigasin Dugongidae withD. dugonand fossil dugongids. Timetree analyses based on calibration density approaches with hard- and soft-bounded constraints suggest thatH. gigasandD. dugondiverged in the Oligocene and that crown sirenians last shared a common ancestor in the Eocene. The coding sequence for theENAMgene inH. gigasdoes not contain frameshift mutations or stop codons, but there is a transversion mutation (AG toCG) in the acceptor splice site of intron 2. This disruption in the edentulous Steller’s sea cow is consistent with previous studies that have documented inactivating mutations in tooth-specific loci of a variety of edentulous and enamelless vertebrates including birds, turtles, aardvarks, pangolins, xenarthrans, and baleen whales. Further, branch-site dN/dS analyses provide evidence for positive selection inENAMon the stem dugongid branch where extensive tooth reduction occurred, followed by neutral evolution on theHydrodamalisbranch. Finally, we present a synthetic evolutionary tree for living and fossil sirenians showing several key innovations in the history of this clade including character state changes that parallel those that occurred in the evolutionary history of cetaceans.
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