Phylogeny and biogeography of African Murinae based on mitochondrial and nuclear gene sequences, with a new tribal classification of the subfamily

Emilie Lecompte¹^,2 , Ken Aplin³ , Christiane Denys¹ , François Catzeflis⁴ , Marion Chades⁴ and Pascale Chevret⁴^,5

¹UMR CNRS 5202, Origine, Structure et Evolution de la Biodiversité, Département Systématique et Evolution, Muséum National d'Histoire Naturelle, 55 rue Buffon, 75005 Paris, France

²UMR CNRS/UPS 5174 "Evolution et Diversité Biologique" EDB, Université Paul Sabatier, Bat. 4R3, 118 route de Narbonne, 31062 Toulouse cedex 9, France

³Australian National Wildlife Collection, CSIRO Division of Sustainable Ecosystems, GPO Box 284, Canberra, ACT 2601, Australia

⁴Laboratoire de Paléontologie, Phylogénie et Paléobiologie – CC064, Institut des Sciences de l'Evolution (UMR 5554/CNRS), Université Montpellier II, Place E. Bataillon, 34 095 Montpellier Cedex 05, France

⁵Equipe Zoologie Moléculaire, Institut de Génomique Fonctionnelle de Lyon, Université de Lyon, CNRS, INRA, ENS de Lyon 46, Allée d'Italie 69007 Lyon, France

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BMC Evolutionary Biology 2008, 8:199doi:10.1186/1471-2148-8-199


Published:	10 July 2008

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Additional file 1:

Maximum likelihood topology obtained with the combined dataset. The support values from each gene separately are indicated for the main nodes discussed in the text. The support values are indicated as follow: GHR/IRBP/cytb. A black dot indicate that the node is supported by the three dataset with a BP > 95, +: BP > 95 otherwise the BP value is indicated, ø: no data available, -: not supported by the dataset.

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Bayesian topology obtained with the combined dataset. The support values from each gene separately are indicated for the main nodes discussed in the text. The support values are indicated as follow: GHR/IRBP/cytb. A black dot indicate that the node is supported by the three dataset with a BP > 95, +: BP > 95 otherwise the BP value is indicated, ø: no data available, -: not supported by the dataset.

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Chronogram showing the posterior divergence ages within Murinae. The topology corresponds with the ML tree in Figure 1. Divergence times have been estimated from the concatenated Cytochrome b, IRBP and GHR sequences by a Bayesian relaxed molecular clock method with two fossil calibration time constraints (nodes indicated by a star).

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Estimated dates of divergence (Mya), standard deviation (SD) and 95% credibility intervals (CD) for selected nodes in Figure 2 and additional file 3 based on Bayesian approximation from the concatenation of the three genes and for each gene separately.

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