Palaeoproteomics resolves sloth relationships.

Forasiepi, Analia M.; Penkman, Kirsty; Molloy, Kelly; Kramarz, Alejandro; Slater, Graham J.; Bloch, Jonathan; Presslee, Samantha; Scaglia, Fernando; Southon, John; de Muizon, Christian; Chait, Brian T.; Mackie, Meaghan; Lezcano, Maximiliano; Greenwood, Alex; MacPhee, Ross D. E.; Feranec, Robert; Fischer, Roman; Olsen, Jesper V.; Salas Gismondi, Rodolfo; Martin, Fabiana M.; Taglioretti, Matias; Collins, Matthew; Reguero, Marcelo; Hajduk, Adam; Lanata, Jose Luis; Pujos, Francois

dc.contributor.author	Presslee, Samantha
dc.contributor.author	Slater, Graham J.
dc.contributor.author	Pujos, Francois
dc.contributor.author	Forasiepi, Analia M.
dc.contributor.author	Fischer, Roman
dc.contributor.author	Molloy, Kelly
dc.contributor.author	Mackie, Meaghan
dc.contributor.author	Olsen, Jesper V.
dc.contributor.author	Kramarz, Alejandro
dc.contributor.author	Taglioretti, Matias
dc.contributor.author	Scaglia, Fernando
dc.contributor.author	Lezcano, Maximiliano
dc.contributor.author	Lanata, Jose Luis
dc.contributor.author	Southon, John
dc.contributor.author	Feranec, Robert
dc.contributor.author	Bloch, Jonathan
dc.contributor.author	Hajduk, Adam
dc.contributor.author	Martin, Fabiana M.
dc.contributor.author	Salas Gismondi, Rodolfo
dc.contributor.author	Reguero, Marcelo
dc.contributor.author	de Muizon, Christian
dc.contributor.author	Greenwood, Alex
dc.contributor.author	Chait, Brian T.
dc.contributor.author	Penkman, Kirsty
dc.contributor.author	Collins, Matthew
dc.contributor.author	MacPhee, Ross D. E.
dc.date.accessioned	2019-12-06T20:57:43Z
dc.date.available	2019-12-06T20:57:43Z
dc.date.issued	2019
dc.identifier.uri	https://hdl.handle.net/20.500.12866/7373
dc.description.abstract	The living tree sloths Choloepus and Bradypus are the only remaining members of Folivora, a major xenarthran radiation that occupied a wide range of habitats in many parts of the western hemisphere during the Cenozoic, including both continents and the West Indies. Ancient DNA evidence has played only a minor role in folivoran systematics, as most sloths lived in places not conducive to genomic preservation. Here we utilize collagen sequence information, both separately and in combination with published mitochondrial DNA evidence, to assess the relationships of tree sloths and their extinct relatives. Results from phylogenetic analysis of these datasets differ substantially from morphology-based concepts: Choloepus groups with Mylodontidae, not Megalonychidae; Bradypus and Megalonyx pair together as megatherioids, while monophyletic Antillean sloths may be sister to all other folivorans. Divergence estimates are consistent with fossil evidence for mid-Cenozoic presence of sloths in the West Indies and an early Miocene radiation in South America.	en_US
dc.language.iso	eng
dc.publisher	Springer
dc.relation.ispartofseries	Nature Ecology and Evolution
dc.rights	info:eu-repo/semantics/restrictedAccess
dc.rights.uri	https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/deed.es
dc.subject	Sloths	en_US
dc.subject	animal	en_US
dc.subject	Animals	en_US
dc.subject	DNA, Mitochondrial	en_US
dc.subject	fossil	en_US
dc.subject	Fossils	en_US
dc.subject	mitochondrial DNA	en_US
dc.subject	phylogeny	en_US
dc.subject	Phylogeny	en_US
dc.subject	sloth	en_US
dc.subject	Sloths	en_US
dc.title	Palaeoproteomics resolves sloth relationships.	en_US
dc.type	info:eu-repo/semantics/article
dc.identifier.doi	https://doi.org/10.1038/s41559-019-0909-z
dc.subject.ocde	https://purl.org/pe-repo/ocde/ford#1.06.15
dc.subject.ocde	https://purl.org/pe-repo/ocde/ford#1.06.13
dc.relation.issn	2397-334X