Symposium on the Origin of Mammalian Orders

• Towards resolving the interordinal relationships of placental mammals--- Peter J. Waddell, Norihiro Okada, and Masami Hasegawa
• Stability of cladistic relationships between Cetacea and higher-level Artiodactyl taxa--- John Gatesy, Michel Milinkovitch, Victor Waddell, and Michael Stanhope
  • Gatesy et al. "Whippo-1" data set
  • Gatesy et al. "Whippo-2" data set
  
  
• Ankle morphology of the earliest Cetaceans and its implications for the phylogenetic relations among Ungulates ---J.G.M. Thewissen and S.I. Madar
• Using novel phylogenetic methods to evaluate mammalian mtDNA, including amino acid-invariant sites-LogDet plus site stripping, to detect internal conflicts in the data, with special reference to the positions of hedgehog, armadillo, and elephant--- Peter J. Waddell, Ying Cao, Jšerg Hauf, and Masami Hasegawa
  • SBAA data set
  • SBAA-CL data set
  • SBAA-pr data set
  • ssbtRNA data set
  
  
• Phylogenetic assessment of molecular and morphological data for Eutherian mammals--- Fu-Guo Robert Liu and Michael M. Miyamoto
  • Liu and Miyamoto data set
  
  
• Additional support for Afrotheria and Paenungulata, the performance of mitochondrial versus nuclear genes, and the impact of data partitions with heterogeneous base composition--- Mark S. Springer, Heather M. Amrine, Angela Burk, and Michael J. Stanhope
  • Springer et al. data set
  
  
• Mammalian evolution: timing and implications from using the LogDeterminant transform for proteins of differing amino acid composition--- David Penny, Masami Hasegawa, Peter J. Waddell, and Michael D. Hendy
  • Penny et al. data set
  
  
• The virtues of gaps: Xenarthran (Edentate) monophyly supported by a unique deletion in alphaA-crystallin--- Marjon A. M. van Dijk, Emmanuel Paradis, François Catzeflis, and Wilfried W. De Jong
  • van Dijk et al. data set
  
  
• The fossil record of North American mammals: evidence for a paleocene evolutionary radiation--- John Alroy
• Assessing the cretaceous superordinal divergence times within birds and placental mammals by using whole mitochondrial protein sequences and an extended statistical framework--- Peter J. Waddell, Ying Cao, Masami Hasegawa, and David P. Mindell
  • SBAA data set
  • SBAA13 fig 1 data set
  
  
• Interordinal relationships of birds and other reptiles bases on whole mitochondrial genomes--- David P. Mindell, Michael D. Sorenson, Derek E. Dimcheff, Masami Hasegawa, Jennifer C. Ast, and Tamaki Yuri