Evolutionary Relationships among Extinct and Extant Sloths: The Evidence of Mitogenomes and Retroviruses

The Basicranium and Orbital Region of the Early MioceneEucholoeops ingensAmeghino, (Xenarthra, Pilosa, Megalonychidae)

(2015) Timothy J. Gaudin et al.   AMEGHINIANA

Mitochondrial genomes reveal the extinct Hippidion as an outgroup to all living equids

(2015) C. Der Sarkissian et al.   Biology Letters

Genetic diversity in Xenarthra and its relevance to patterns of neotropical biodiversity

(2015) Nadia Moraes-Barros et al.   JOURNAL OF MAMMALOGY

Collagen Sequence Analysis of the Extinct Giant Ground Sloths Lestodon and Megatherium

(2015) Michael Buckley et al.   PLoS One

Trimmomatic: a flexible trimmer for Illumina sequence data

(2014) Anthony M. Bolger et al.   BIOINFORMATICS

Selecting optimal partitioning schemes for phylogenomic datasets

(2014) Robert Lanfear et al.   BMC EVOLUTIONARY BIOLOGY

EucholoeopsAmeghino, 1887 (Xenarthra, Tardigrada, Megalonychidae) from the Santa Cruz Formation, Argentine Patagonia: implications for the systematics of Santacrucian sloths

(2014) Gerardo De Iuliis et al.   GEODIVERSITAS

Proliferation of Endogenous Retroviruses in the Early Stages of a Host Germ Line Invasion

(2014) Yasuko Ishida et al.   MOLECULAR BIOLOGY AND EVOLUTION

Hybridization Capture Reveals Evolution and Conservation across the Entire Koala Retrovirus Genome

(2014) Kyriakos Tsangaras et al.   PLoS One

Chimpanzee-Specific Endogenous Retrovirus Generates Genomic Variations in the Chimpanzee Genome

(2014) Seyoung Mun et al.   PLoS One

The fossilized birth-death process for coherent calibration of divergence-time estimates

(2014) T. A. Heath et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

Pan-vertebrate comparative genomics unmasks retrovirus macroevolution

(2014) Alexander Hayward et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

Discovery of prosimian and afrotherian foamy viruses and potential cross species transmissions amidst stable and ancient mammalian co-evolution

(2014) Aris Katzourakis et al.   Retrovirology

Bayesian Inference of Sampled Ancestor Trees for Epidemiology and Fossil Calibration

(2014) Alexandra Gavryushkina et al.   PLoS Computational Biology

A new genus of megalonychid sloth (Mammalia, Xenarthra) from the late Pleistocene (Lujanian) of Sierra de Perija, Zulia State, Venezuela

(2013) H. Gregory McDonald et al.   JOURNAL OF VERTEBRATE PALEONTOLOGY

Reconstructing mitochondrial genomes directly from genomic next-generation sequencing reads—a baiting and iterative mapping approach

(2013) Christoph Hahn et al.   NUCLEIC ACIDS RESEARCH

Broad-scale phylogenomics provides insights into retrovirus-host evolution

(2013) A. Hayward et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

The Placental Mammal Ancestor and the Post-K-Pg Radiation of Placentals

(2013) M. A. O'Leary et al.   SCIENCE

On the Osteology of the Auditory Region and Orbital Wall in the Extinct West Indian Sloth GenusNeocnusArredondo, 1961 (Placentalia, Xenarthra, Megalonychidae

(2012) Timothy J. Gaudin   ANNALS OF CARNEGIE MUSEUM

Geneious Basic: An integrated and extendable desktop software platform for the organization and analysis of sequence data

(2012) M. Kearse et al.   BIOINFORMATICS

Improving ancient DNA read mapping against modern reference genomes

(2012) Mikkel Schubert et al.   BMC GENOMICS

A new chronology for middle Eocene-early Miocene South American Land Mammal Ages

(2012) R. E. Dunn et al.   GEOLOGICAL SOCIETY OF AMERICA BULLETIN

Recent Advances on Variability, Morpho-Functional Adaptations, Dental Terminology, and Evolution of Sloths

(2012) François Pujos et al.   JOURNAL OF MAMMALIAN EVOLUTION

Bayesian Phylogenetics with BEAUti and the BEAST 1.7

(2012) Alexei J. Drummond et al.   MOLECULAR BIOLOGY AND EVOLUTION

PartitionFinder: Combined Selection of Partitioning Schemes and Substitution Models for Phylogenetic Analyses

(2012) R. Lanfear et al.   MOLECULAR BIOLOGY AND EVOLUTION

Endogenous viruses: insights into viral evolution and impact on host biology

(2012) Cédric Feschotte et al.   NATURE REVIEWS GENETICS

Phylogenomic datasets provide both precision and accuracy in estimating the timescale of placental mammal phylogeny

(2012) M. dos Reis et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE ROYAL SOCIETY B-BIOLOGICAL SCIENCES

MrBayes 3.2: Efficient Bayesian Phylogenetic Inference and Model Choice Across a Large Model Space

(2012) Fredrik Ronquist et al.   SYSTEMATIC BIOLOGY

Mylodon darwinii DNA sequences from ancient fecal hair shafts

(2011) Andrew A. Clack et al.   ANNALS OF ANATOMY-ANATOMISCHER ANZEIGER

Variability and constraint in the mammalian vertebral column

(2011) R. J. ASHER et al.   JOURNAL OF EVOLUTIONARY BIOLOGY

Morphology, molecular phylogeny, and taxonomic inconsistencies in the study ofBradypussloths (Pilosa: Bradypodidae)

(2011) Nadia de Moraes-Barros et al.   JOURNAL OF MAMMALOGY

A new genus and species of nothrotheriid sloth (Xenarthra, Tardigrada, Nothrotheriidae) from the Late Miocene (Huayquerian) of Peru

(2011) GERARDO DE IULIIS et al.   PALAEONTOLOGY

The historical biogeography of Mammalia

(2011) M. S. Springer et al.   PHILOSOPHICAL TRANSACTIONS OF THE ROYAL SOCIETY B-BIOLOGICAL SCIENCES

Impacts of the Cretaceous Terrestrial Revolution and KPg Extinction on Mammal Diversification

(2011) R. W. Meredith et al.   SCIENCE

BEDTools: a flexible suite of utilities for comparing genomic features

(2010) Aaron R. Quinlan et al.   BIOINFORMATICS

Grazing in a New Late Oligocene Mylodontid Sloth and a Mylodontid Radiation as a Component of the Eocene-Oligocene Faunal Turnover and the Early Spread of Grasslands/Savannas in South America

(2010) Bruce J. Shockey et al.   JOURNAL OF MAMMALIAN EVOLUTION

Multiplexed DNA Sequence Capture of Mitochondrial Genomes Using PCR Products

(2010) Tomislav Maricic et al.   PLoS One

Skeletal development in sloths and the evolution of mammalian vertebral patterning

(2010) L. Hautier et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

The Sequence Alignment/Map format and SAMtools

(2009) H. Li et al.   BIOINFORMATICS

Fast and accurate short read alignment with Burrows-Wheeler transform

(2009) H. Li et al.   BIOINFORMATICS

Genetic variation at hair length candidate genes in elephants and the extinct woolly mammoth

(2009) Alfred L Roca et al.   BMC EVOLUTIONARY BIOLOGY

Systematic and taxonomic revision of the Pleistocene ground sloth Megatherium (Pseudomegatherium) tarijense (Xenarthra: Megatheriidae)

(2009) Gerardo De Iuliis et al.   JOURNAL OF VERTEBRATE PALEONTOLOGY

Macroevolution of Complex Retroviruses

(2009) A. Katzourakis et al.   SCIENCE

Identifiability of a Markovian model of molecular evolution with gamma-distributed rates

(2008) Elizabeth S. Allman et al.   ADVANCES IN APPLIED PROBABILITY

Historical Mammal Extinction on Christmas Island (Indian Ocean) Correlates with Introduced Infectious Disease

(2008) Kelly B. Wyatt et al.   PLoS One