| dogs, cats, and kin: a molecular species-level phylogeny of carnivora. | phylogenies underpin comparative biology as high-utility tools to test evolutionary and biogeographic hypotheses, inform on conservation strategies, and reveal the age and evolutionary histories of traits and lineages. as tools, most powerful are those phylogenies that contain all, or nearly all, of the taxa of a given group. despite their obvious utility, such phylogenies, other than summary 'supertrees', are currently lacking for most mammalian orders, including the order carnivora. carnivora ... | 2010 | 19900567 |
| phylogenetic relationships of the asian palm civets (hemigalinae & paradoxurinae, viverridae, carnivora). | the viverridae (mammalia, carnivora), one of the least studied groups of carnivorans, include two subfamilies of asian palm civets: hemigalinae and paradoxurinae. the relationships between and within these two subfamilies have never been thoroughly tested using an extensive molecular sample set. in this study, we gathered sequences of four genes (two mitochondrial: cytochrome b and nd2 and two nuclear: beta-fibrinogen intron 7 and irbp exon 1) for eight of the eleven extant species representing ... | 2008 | 18434210 |