Chitinase genes ( CHIA s) provide genomic footprints of a post-Cretaceous dietary radiation in placental mammals

Evolution of Acidic Mammalian Chitinase Genes (CHIA) Is Related to Body Mass and Insectivory in Primates

(2017) Mareike C Janiak et al.   MOLECULAR BIOLOGY AND EVOLUTION

Waking the undead: Implications of a soft explosive model for the timing of placental mammal diversification

(2017) Mark S. Springer et al.   MOLECULAR PHYLOGENETICS AND EVOLUTION

A mitogenomic timetree for Darwin’s enigmatic South American mammal Macrauchenia patachonica

(2017) Michael Westbury et al.   Nature Communications

Transcriptomic analysis identifies genes and pathways related to myrmecophagy in the Malayan pangolin (Manis javanica)

(2017) Jing-E Ma et al.   PeerJ

Therian mammals experience an ecomorphological radiation during the Late Cretaceous and selective extinction at the K–Pg boundary

(2016) David M. Grossnickle et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE ROYAL SOCIETY B-BIOLOGICAL SCIENCES

Acidic mammalian chitinase is a proteases-resistant glycosidase in mouse digestive system

(2016) Misa Ohno et al.   Scientific Reports

Convergence of Afrotherian and Laurasiatherian Ungulate-Like Mammals: First Morphological Evidence from the Paleocene of Morocco

(2016) Emmanuel Gheerbrant et al.   PLoS One

An early Oligocene fossil demonstrates treeshrews are slowly evolving “living fossils”

(2016) Qiang Li et al.   Scientific Reports

Eutherian morphological disparity across the end-Cretaceous mass extinction

(2015) Thomas John Dixon Halliday et al.   BIOLOGICAL JOURNAL OF THE LINNEAN SOCIETY

Resolving the relationships of Paleocene placental mammals

(2015) Thomas J. D. Halliday et al.   BIOLOGICAL REVIEWS

Evidence for a Mid-Jurassic Adaptive Radiation in Mammals

(2015) Roger A. Close et al.   CURRENT BIOLOGY

Ancient proteins resolve the evolutionary history of Darwin’s South American ungulates

(2015) Frido Welker et al.   NATURE

Ancient collagen reveals evolutionary history of the endemic South American 'ungulates'

(2015) M. Buckley   PROCEEDINGS OF THE ROYAL SOCIETY B-BIOLOGICAL SCIENCES

Spectral shifts of mammalian ultraviolet-sensitive pigments (short wavelength-sensitive opsin 1) are associated with eye length and photic niche evolution

(2015) Christopher A. Emerling et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE ROYAL SOCIETY B-BIOLOGICAL SCIENCES

Baleen whales host a unique gut microbiome with similarities to both carnivores and herbivores

(2015) Jon G. Sanders et al.   Nature Communications

RAxML version 8: a tool for phylogenetic analysis and post-analysis of large phylogenies

(2014) Alexandros Stamatakis   BIOINFORMATICS

EltonTraits 1.0: Species-level foraging attributes of the world's birds and mammals

(2014) Hamish Wilman et al.   ECOLOGY

Adaptive Functional Diversification of Lysozyme in Insectivorous Bats

(2014) Yang Liu et al.   MOLECULAR BIOLOGY AND EVOLUTION

Ocepeia (Middle Paleocene of Morocco): The Oldest Skull of an Afrotherian Mammal

(2014) Emmanuel Gheerbrant et al.   PLoS One

Anthracobunids from the Middle Eocene of India and Pakistan Are Stem Perissodactyls

(2014) Lisa Noelle Cooper et al.   PLoS One

Early Eocene fossils suggest that the mammalian order Perissodactyla originated in India

(2014) Kenneth D. Rose et al.   Nature Communications

New Paralogues and Revised Time Line in the Expansion of the Vertebrate GH18 Family

(2013) Mushtaq Hussain et al.   JOURNAL OF MOLECULAR EVOLUTION

The “Vampirome”: Transcriptome and proteome analysis of the principal and accessory submaxillary glands of the vampire bat Desmodus rotundus, a vector of human rabies

(2013) Ivo M.B. Francischetti et al.   Journal of Proteomics

Dracula's children: Molecular evolution of vampire bat venom

(2013) Dolyce H.W. Low et al.   Journal of Proteomics

Convergence of gut microbiomes in myrmecophagous mammals

(2013) Frédéric Delsuc et al.   MOLECULAR ECOLOGY

The oldest known primate skeleton and early haplorhine evolution

(2013) Xijun Ni et al.   NATURE

Insectivorous Bats Digest Chitin in the Stomach Using Acidic Mammalian Chitinase

(2013) Sara Strobel et al.   PLoS One

Mammal disparity decreases during the Cretaceous angiosperm radiation

(2013) D. M. Grossnickle et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE ROYAL SOCIETY B-BIOLOGICAL SCIENCES

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

(2013) M. A. O'Leary et al.   SCIENCE

Genome of the Chinese tree shrew

(2013) Yu Fan et al.   Nature Communications

EVALUATING HABITATS AND FEEDING HABITS THROUGH ECOMORPHOLOGICAL FEATURES IN GLYPTODONTS (MAMMALIA, XENARTHRA)

(2012) Sergio F. Vizcaíno et al.   AMEGHINIANA

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

(2012) M. Kearse et al.   BIOINFORMATICS

Phylogeny of the Carnivoramorpha: The impact of postcranial characters

(2012) Michelle Spaulding et al.   JOURNAL OF SYSTEMATIC PALAEONTOLOGY

Genomic Evidence for Large, Long-Lived Ancestors to Placental Mammals

(2012) J. Romiguier et al.   MOLECULAR BIOLOGY AND EVOLUTION

Adaptive radiation of multituberculate mammals before the extinction of dinosaurs

(2012) Gregory P. Wilson et al.   NATURE

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

Feeding mechanics and dietary implications in the fossil sloth Neocnus (Mammalia: Xenarthra: Megalonychidae) from haiti

(2011) Robert K. McAfee   JOURNAL OF MORPHOLOGY

A Jurassic eutherian mammal and divergence of marsupials and placentals

(2011) Zhe-Xi Luo et al.   NATURE

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

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

New perspectives on anthropoid origins

(2010) B. A. Williams et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

The Evolution of Maximum Body Size of Terrestrial Mammals

(2010) F. A. Smith et al.   SCIENCE

The Phylogeny of Living and Extinct Pangolins (Mammalia, Pholidota) and Associated Taxa: A Morphology Based Analysis

(2009) Timothy J. Gaudin et al.   JOURNAL OF MAMMALIAN EVOLUTION

Paleocene emergence of elephant relatives and the rapid radiation of African ungulates

(2009) E. Gheerbrant   PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

Further evidence of the African antiquity of hyaenodontid (‘Creodonta’, Mammalia) evolution

(2009) FLORÉAL SOLÉ et al.   ZOOLOGICAL JOURNAL OF THE LINNEAN SOCIETY

Molecular Decay of the Tooth Gene Enamelin (ENAM) Mirrors the Loss of Enamel in the Fossil Record of Placental Mammals

(2009) Robert W. Meredith et al.   PLoS Genetics

Primitive Early Eocene bat from Wyoming and the evolution of flight and echolocation

(2008) Nancy B. Simmons et al.   NATURE