Boreoeutheria

Taxobox
name = Boreoeutheria

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image_width = 220px
regnum = Animalia
phylum = Chordata
subphylum = Vertebrata
classis = Mammalia
subclassis = Eutheria
infraclassis = Epitheria
unranked_ordo = Boreoeutheria
subdivision_ranks = Superorders and clades
subdivision =
*Superorder "Laurasiatheria:"
**"Chiroptera"
**"Insectivora"
**"Cetartiodactyla"
**"Perissodactyla"
**"Pholidota"
**"Carnivora"
*Superorder "Euarchontoglires:"
**"Rodentia"
**"Lagomorpha"
**"Dermoptera"
**"Scandentia"
**"Primates"

Boreoeutheria (synonymous with Boreotheria) is a clade that is composed of the sister taxa Laurasiatheria and Euarchontoglires (Supraprimates). It is now well supported by DNA sequence analyses as well as Retrotransposon presence/absence data.

Classification

Class Mammalia
*Clade Boreoeutheria
**Group III: Euarchontoglires (Supraprimates)
***Superorder Euarchonta
****Order Scandentia: treeshrews (Southeast Asia).
****Order Dermoptera: flying lemurs or colugos (Southeast Asia).
****Order Primates: lemurs, bushbabies, monkeys, apes (cosmopolitan).
***Superorder Glires
****Order Lagomorpha: pikas, rabbits, hares (Eurasia, Africa, Americas).
****Order Rodentia: rodents (cosmopolitan)
**Group IV: Laurasiatheria
***Order Insectivora: moles, hedgehogs, shrews, solenodons
***Order Chiroptera: bats (cosmopolitan)
***Order Cetartiodactyla: cosmopolitan; includes former orders Cetacea (whales, dolphins and porpoises) and Artiodactyla (even-toed ungulates, including pigs, hippopotamus, camels, giraffe, deer, antelope, cattle, sheep, goats).
***Order Perissodactyla: odd-toed ungulates, including horses, donkeys, zebras, tapirs, and rhinoceroses.
***Clade Ferae
****Order Pholidota: pangolins or scaly anteaters (Africa, South Asia).
****Order Carnivora: carnivorans (cosmopolitan)

References

*Waddell PJ, Kishino H, Ota R (2001) A phylogenetic foundation for comparative mammalian genomics. Genome Inform Ser Workshop Genome Inform 12: 141–154.
*William J. Murphy, Eduardo Eizirik, Mark S. Springer et al., "Resolution of the Early Placental Mammal Radiation Using Bayesian Phylogenetics",Science, Vol 294, Issue 5550, 2348-2351 , 14 December 2001.
*Kriegs, Jan Ole, Gennady Churakov, Martin Kiefmann, Ursula Jordan, Juergen Brosius, Juergen Schmitz. (2006) Retroposed Elements as Archives for the Evolutionary History of Placental Mammals. PLoS Biol 4(4): e91. [http://biology.plosjournals.org/perlserv/?request=get-document&doi=10.1371/journal.pbio.0040091] ( [http://biology.plosjournals.org/perlserv/?request=get-pdf&file=10.1371_journal.pbio.0040091-S.pdf pdf version] )
*Blanchette M, Green ED, Miller W, Haussler D. (2004) Reconstructing large regions of an ancestral mammalian genome in silico. Genome Res. 2004 Dec;14(12):2412-23. ( [http://www.genome.org/cgi/content/full/14/12/2412] )
*Ma J, Zhang L, Suh BB, Raney BJ, Burhans RC, Kent WJ, Blanchette M, Haussler D, Miller W. (2006) Reconstructing contiguous regions of an ancestral genome. Genome Res. 2006 Dec;16(12):1557-65. Epub 2006 Sep 18. ( [http://www.genome.org/cgi/content/full/16/12/1557] )

External links

* [http://biology.plosjournals.org/perlserv/?request=get-document&doi=10.1371/journal.pbio.0040111 Resolving the Family Tree of Placental Mammals]
* Wired article: " [http://www.wired.com/wired/archive/14.04/bronto.html Bringing Back the Brontosaurus] " April 2006.