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Bony labyrinth morphology clarifies the origin and evolution of deer

Deer are an iconic group of large mammals that originated in the Early Miocene of Eurasia (ca. 19 Ma). While there is some consensus on key relationships among their members, on the basis of molecular- or morphology-based analyses, or combined approaches, many questions remain, and the bony labyrint...

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Autores principales: Mennecart, Bastien, DeMiguel, Daniel, Bibi, Faysal, Rössner, Gertrud E., Métais, Grégoire, Neenan, James M., Wang, Shiqi, Schulz, Georg, Müller, Bert, Costeur, Loïc
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5640792/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/29030580
http://dx.doi.org/10.1038/s41598-017-12848-9
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author Mennecart, Bastien
DeMiguel, Daniel
Bibi, Faysal
Rössner, Gertrud E.
Métais, Grégoire
Neenan, James M.
Wang, Shiqi
Schulz, Georg
Müller, Bert
Costeur, Loïc
author_facet Mennecart, Bastien
DeMiguel, Daniel
Bibi, Faysal
Rössner, Gertrud E.
Métais, Grégoire
Neenan, James M.
Wang, Shiqi
Schulz, Georg
Müller, Bert
Costeur, Loïc
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description Deer are an iconic group of large mammals that originated in the Early Miocene of Eurasia (ca. 19 Ma). While there is some consensus on key relationships among their members, on the basis of molecular- or morphology-based analyses, or combined approaches, many questions remain, and the bony labyrinth has shown considerable potential for the phylogenetics of this and other groups. Here we examine its shape in 29 species of living and fossil deer using 3D geometric morphometrics and cladistics. We clarify several issues of the origin and evolution of cervids. Our results give new age estimates at different nodes of the tree and provide for the first time a clear distinction of stem and crown Cervidae. We unambiguously attribute the fossil Euprox furcatus (13.8 Ma) to crown Cervidae, pushing back the origin of crown deer to (at least) 4 Ma. Furthermore, we show that Capreolinae are more variable in bony labyrinth shape than Cervinae and confirm for the first time the monophyly of the Old World Capreolinae (including the Chinese water deer Hydropotes) based on morphological characters only. Finally, we provide evidence to support the sister group relationship of Megaloceros giganteus with the fallow deer Dama.
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spelling pubmed-56407922017-10-18 Bony labyrinth morphology clarifies the origin and evolution of deer Mennecart, Bastien DeMiguel, Daniel Bibi, Faysal Rössner, Gertrud E. Métais, Grégoire Neenan, James M. Wang, Shiqi Schulz, Georg Müller, Bert Costeur, Loïc Sci Rep Article Deer are an iconic group of large mammals that originated in the Early Miocene of Eurasia (ca. 19 Ma). While there is some consensus on key relationships among their members, on the basis of molecular- or morphology-based analyses, or combined approaches, many questions remain, and the bony labyrinth has shown considerable potential for the phylogenetics of this and other groups. Here we examine its shape in 29 species of living and fossil deer using 3D geometric morphometrics and cladistics. We clarify several issues of the origin and evolution of cervids. Our results give new age estimates at different nodes of the tree and provide for the first time a clear distinction of stem and crown Cervidae. We unambiguously attribute the fossil Euprox furcatus (13.8 Ma) to crown Cervidae, pushing back the origin of crown deer to (at least) 4 Ma. Furthermore, we show that Capreolinae are more variable in bony labyrinth shape than Cervinae and confirm for the first time the monophyly of the Old World Capreolinae (including the Chinese water deer Hydropotes) based on morphological characters only. Finally, we provide evidence to support the sister group relationship of Megaloceros giganteus with the fallow deer Dama. Nature Publishing Group UK 2017-10-13 /pmc/articles/PMC5640792/ /pubmed/29030580 http://dx.doi.org/10.1038/s41598-017-12848-9 Text en © The Author(s) 2017 Open Access This article is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License, which permits use, sharing, adaptation, distribution and reproduction in any medium or format, as long as you give appropriate credit to the original author(s) and the source, provide a link to the Creative Commons license, and indicate if changes were made. The images or other third party material in this article are included in the article’s Creative Commons license, unless indicated otherwise in a credit line to the material. If material is not included in the article’s Creative Commons license and your intended use is not permitted by statutory regulation or exceeds the permitted use, you will need to obtain permission directly from the copyright holder. To view a copy of this license, visit http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/.
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Wang, Shiqi
Schulz, Georg
Müller, Bert
Costeur, Loïc
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url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5640792/
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