Koretsky IA, Sanders AE: Paleontology of the Late Oligocene Ashley and Chandler Bridge Formations of South Carolina, 1: Paleogene pinniped remains; the oldest known seal (Carnivora: Phocidae). Bininda-Emonds ORP: transAlign: using amino acids to facilitate the multiple alignment of protein-coding DNA sequences. Sediment samples from specimens of both taxa have been dated to the late Langhian–early Serravallian (middle Miocene). Thus, at the current time the Baikal Seal is listed as Least Concern. 3 Of the 33 species, all have at least two lines of evidence to distinguish them, and of the 29 subspecies, 24 have at least one line of evidence, but five have inadequate support. Compared with other aspects of their biology, the phylogeny of pinnipeds is relatively well studied and provides an evolutionary framework in which to understand the evolution of their parasitic lice. Limited hybridization also occurred to raccoon DNA. Recent re‐examination of the genetic basis of taxonomic diversity within otariids required matching by comprehensive new studies of skull morphometry based on large sample sizes, to provide a sound basis for re‐appraisal of species limits in the family. Originally, desmatophocids were considered closely allied to 'enaliarctines', Otariidae, and Odobenidae, forming the clade Otarioidea (Barnes, 1989(Barnes, , 2008Koretsky et al., 2016); under this arrangement, phocids were considered not to share a common ancestor with otarioids, but rather to have evolved independently from musteloid ancestors. Sonderdruck aus Geologische Rundschau. However, recent molecular evidence suggests that the first split, separating Phocidae from other pinnipeds, occurred 33 MY ago (. The origin of Arctocephalus + Phocarctos hookeri was estimated here using MT-CYB data at 4.3 mya, which is younger than other recent estimates based on different topologies [14, 23]. ‘Miacidae’ is not monophyletic; rather it appears to represent a paraphyletic array of stem taxa, basal to the Carnivora. Am Mus Novitates. 9 mya using multidivtime), and the origins of Otaria at 4.5 ± 0.21 mya and Arctocephalus pusillus at 4.3 mya (the latter, again, based only on MT-CYB; both divergences ca. However, only a few phylogenetic relationships have reached acceptance because of strong gene-tree species tree discordance. Bininda-Emonds et al. The mitogenomes generated in this study comprised six animals from four African pangolin species and were combined and aligned with 11 other genomes using MAFFT v7 [76] ( Table 1). Comparison with other fossil monachine innominates from North America, South America and South Africa reveals that this specimen represents the genus Homiphoca, but species classification remains premature. 4 We propose that the genus Arctocephalus be limited to Arctocephalus pusillus, and we resurrect the name Arctophoca for at least six species and subspecies. The family Ruminococcaceae (Firmicutes) was more abundant in southern elephant seals than in Weddell seals, and the families Acidaminococcaceae (Firmicutes) and Pasteurellaceae (Gam-maproteobacteria) were uniquely present in Weddell seals. 10.1080/10635150490423971. This combination was used here in place of the previous MrAIC/PHYML combination largely because it can be used to test for the applicability of a molecular clock (through PAUP*) using a likelihood-ratio test. Aim: Pinnipeds are thought to have evolved from a North Pacific ancestor, although some fossil evidence suggests a nonmarine Arctic origin and separate invasions into the North Pacific and North Atlantic. It currently remains unclear whether this dispersal occurred through the Central American Seaway or via the South Atlantic (figure 4b), as perhaps indicated by the fragmentary remains of Properiptychus from the late Miocene of Argentina [18,19]. © 2006 The Linnean Society of London, Biological Journal of the Linnean Society, 2006, 88, 61–72. Some fossils that represent the earliest known record for major clades as Otariidae (Eotaria crypta Boessenecker & Churchill, 2015) or Monachinae (Afrophoca libyca Koretsky & Domning, 2014) have been described recently. 1985, 74: 547-563. Terms and Conditions, Based on the present and previously studied material a comparison based on G-band patterns was made between the four principal pinniped karyotypes. Phocids do not have a pre-Pleistocene fossil record in the North Pacific (Boessenecker, 2013) and quickly diversify after invading from the Arctic and South Pacific (Deméré et al., 2002; ... At the family-level, the genetic distance between true seals and walruses is greater than the distance between walruses and otariids. Searches employed a MCMC algorithm of two separate runs, each with four chains that were run for 10000000 generations and with the first 5000000 generations being discarded as burn-in. [23], but in good accord with those of Fyler et al. Ferguson SH: The influences of environment, mating habitat, and predation on evolution of pinniped lactation strategies. elephant seal M. leonina OEC has a combination of features similar to both the rest of the phocids and to the Bull JJ, Huelsenbeck JP, Cunningham CW, Swofford DL, Waddel PJ: Partitioning and combining data in phylogenetic analysis. For the supertree analyses, we used PHYML [106] to determine the ML tree for each of the 50 phylogenetically informative genes after determining their optimal model of evolution according to either AIC or AICc (as appropriate, the latter being a version of the AIC corrected for small sample sizes) using MrAIC [107] and PHYML [106] (Table 4). However, a later Pliocene colonization through ice lakes, which allowed movement of faunal elements between the Arctic Sea and the Ponto-Caspian, is also possible (e.g. Bininda-Emonds ORP, Sanderson MJ: Assessment of the accuracy of matrix representation with parsimony supertree construction. The split between Sumatran and Bornean orangutans was dated at ≃10.5 MYBP and that between the common and pygmy chimpanzees at ≃7 MYBP. Lastly, a total of two insertions of 80 bp and 28 bp in size respectively was observed in the control region of the black-bellied pangolin which were absent in the other African pangolin species. Pinniped branch of the strict consensus tree from the parsimony analysis of the combined molecular and morphological dataset, with a geological time-scale. Relationships within Lobodontini have traditionally been contentious, although recent studies [11–15] all support the sister relationship between Leptonychotes and Hydrurga recovered here (contra [4, 23]). Nojima, T. 1990. This article is protected by copyright. The Family Phocidae includes four subfamilies (Phocinae, Monachinae, Cystophorinae, and Devinophocinae) consisting of mediumto large-sized mammals that possess distinctive adaptations to semi-aquatic life. 10.2307/1378386. Nunn CL, Gittleman JL, Antonovics J: A comparative study of white blood cell counts and disease risk in carnivores. Mallei were extracted from 16 specimens of pinnipeds belonging to five austral and one boreal species of Phocidae and two austral species of Otariidae. 2002, 32: 283-294. Nevertheless, in light of the fierce criticism that the supertree approach has attracted (e.g., [102, 103], but see [104, 105]), we also conduct ML and Bayesian inference (BI) analyses of the concatenated supermatrix to help identify especially problematic regions of the pinniped tree as part of a global congruence framework [50] and to add to the growing body of studies comparing phylogenetic inference under these two frameworks (e.g., [15, 106]). Combined with fossil evidence, molecular findings here suggest an Arctic centre of long‐lasting (approximately 38–18 Myra) nonmarine pinniped evolution and at least five separate marine invasions, with the extinct (enaliarctid, Desmatophocidae, Kolponomos) and Otarioidea lineages entering the North Pacific and the Phocidae lineage the North Atlantic. where and when the aquatic animals could have crossed the drainage divide between the Caspian Sea and The driving forces for this dramatic life‐style change are still a matter of discussion but the struggle for food resources and the opportunity to escape predators probably contributed. Mol Phylogenet Evol. King JE: Relationships of the hooded and elephant seals (genera Cystophora and Mirounga). Thus, while the present analysis identifies a new suite of morphological synapomorphies for Pinnipedia, the frequency of reversals and other homoplasies within the clade limit their diagnostic value. On average, each gene was sampled for 11.2 species (range = 3–35); however, only an average of 5.5 species per nuclear gene were available for study. The cholesterol and phospholipid content of the lenses were measured using ¹H and ³¹P-NMR spectroscopy, respectively. 1 Early cetaceans, the Archeocetes, were a group of semiaquatic nonecholocating and nonfilter‐feeding animals inhabiting marine and fresh waters that arose from terrestrial … The comparison does not support a generic distinction of Halichoerus within the Phoca complex. An accurate taxonomic framework is essential for studies of biogeography, ecology and conservation. This unanticipated discovery reveals that all three monachine tribes once coexisted south of the equator, and forces a profound revision of their evolutionary history: rather than primarily diversifying in the North Atlantic, monachines largely evolved in the Southern Hemisphere, and from this southern cradle later reinvaded the north. Interestingly, the species occurring in the northwestern Atlantic, E. truncata, is more closely related to the Pontocaspian taxa, E. grimmi and E. maritima, than to the species occurring in the northeastern Atlantic and Mediterranean Sea. We executed three independent assembly runs using the quick function, whereby each run used a different fur seal mitogenome as a bait sequence: A. pusillus, A. townsendi, or A. forsteri (Lin et al. 10.1073/pnas.102164299. Three new characters are here defined and analysed. We conservatively identify 69 marine colonizations by amniotes. Adaptations to avoid the detrimental effects of pressure during deep diving may have come later. and Arctocephallus gazella is different from that of the Northern Hemisphere species, with only one plate of cartilage, Eine bakterielle Fermentation im Vormagen ist bei Bartenwalen vorhanden, allerdings ist der Beitrag zur Energiedeckung eher gering. The oldest known record for the southern hemisphere otariids is established by Hydrarctos lomasiensis from the late Pliocene or early Pleistocene (< 3.4 mya, [70, 71]). 1999, 39: 374-388. In such animals, the main mode of speciation should be a allopatric. Early suggestions that this subfamilial classification might be incorrect (e.g. 1995, 12: 28-52. [23]. Semiaquatic pinnipeds can sleep both on land and in water. The pagophilic nature of extant phocine and lobodon- tine seals is largely a function of Pleistocene glacioeustatic events. In contrast, monachine seals have a southern hemisphere center of diversity, especially the lobodontines of the Southern Ocean. Upper and lower bounds on any given date estimates took the form of the 95% confidence interval derived from all individual gene and/or fossil estimates for that node. Davis CS, Delisle I, Stirling I, Siniff DB, Strobeck C: A phylogeny of the extant Phocidae inferred from complete mitochondrial DNA coding regions. Edited by: Gray J, Boucot AJ. Wain HM, Lush M, Ducluzeau F, Povey S: Genew: the human gene nomenclature database. Within the Cetacea only two different chromosome numbers have been found, viz. Geociencias. Early Cetacea are classified as Archaeoceti (six families), and their fossils reveal the morphological and functional evolution of early, terrestrial Artiodactyla to fully aquatic Cetacea over 15 million years during the Eocene (~52 Mya). The authors consider that presentations inferring pinniped diphyly provide inadequate evidence of "otarioid' monophyly and inadequate evidence that phocids are related to some nonpinniped group. Alternative analyses of the molecular data set (supertree analysis with all mtDNA forming a single source tree or ML or BI analyses of the combined supermatrix; Figures 2 and 3, respectively) yield topologies that agree broadly with that in Figure 1. 1990, Berkley, CA: University of California Press. © 2008-2021 ResearchGate GmbH. Characteristic for the nutrition of a large number of marine mammals is a distinct seasonal demand with extensive fasting periods, during which, furthermore, frequently a high energy requirement exists. Its phylogenetic position among Phocinae is assessed through phylogenetic analysis. Correspondence to The family of true seals, the Phocidae, is subdivided into two subfamilies: the southern Monachinae, and the northern Phocinae, following the subfamilies’ current distribution: extant Monachinae are largely restricted to the (sub-)Antarctic and the eastern Pacific, with historical distributions of the monk seals of the genus Monachus in the Caribbean, the Mediterranean and around Hawaii; and Phocinae to the northern temperate and Arctic zones. 2005, Switzerland: University of Zurich. The percentage of cholesterol in the phocid lens fit well in the correlation between the Figure 7). 10.1038/39774. A few Neogene phocid innominate bones are known from the Western Paratethys and Western Atlantic. The disagreement surrounding the relationship within pinnipeds as well as their phylogenetic affinities still remains unresolved. Pinnipeds are semiaquatic carnivorans that spend most of their lives in water and use coastal terrestrial, or ice Node numbers correspond to divergence dates in Table 2. These separation times are about two times more ancient than those applied previously as references for the dating of hominoid divergences. [14] estimated an older divergence time, but also based on a different phylogeny. ADAPTIVE ZONES AND THE PINNIPED ANKLE . Syst Zool. Arnason U, Bodin K, Gullgerg A, Ledje C, Mouchaty S: A molecular view of pinniped relationships with a particular emphasis on the true seals. From Barnes et al. The nucleotide sequence of the mitochondrial DNA (mtDNA) of the harbor seal, Phoca vitulina, was determined. 2003, 52: 696-704. Dolphins and porpoises (cetaceans) have only one sleeplike state, called unihemispheric slow-wave sleep (USWS). There still remains a difference of opinion about the origin of pinnipeds, with research supporting origination from either Ursid (bear-like) or Mustelid (weasel-like) ancestors, even extending down to familial and subfamilial levels. -Authors. All rights reserved. Thereafter, a series of rapid divergences are inferred to have occurred. 2005, 54: 317-337. Nature. The new genus and species Imagotaria downsi is described from Mio-Pliocene rocks in coastal southern California and a new subfamily proposed to receive it, the Imagotariinae. We infer Phocarctos to have split from the remaining Arctocephalus species 3.4 ± 0.34 mya. Taken together with a number of reports of both interspecific and intergeneric hybrids within Otariidae (e.g. Mercer JM, Roth VL: The effects of Cenozoic global change on squirrel phylogeny. pack, environments to breed, molt and rest. 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