Authors
Richard E Green, Edward L Braun, Joel Armstrong, Dent Earl, Ngan Nguyen, Glenn Hickey, Michael W Vandewege, John A St. John, Salvador Capella-Gutiérrez, Todd A Castoe, Colin Kern, Matthew K Fujita, Juan C Opazo, Jerzy Jurka, Kenji K Kojima, Juan Caballero, Robert M Hubley, Arian F Smit, Roy N Platt, Christine A Lavoie, Meganathan P Ramakodi, John W Finger Jr, Alexander Suh, Sally R Isberg, Lee Miles, Amanda Y Chong, Weerachai Jaratlerdsiri, Jaime Gongora, Christopher Moran, Andrés Iriarte, John McCormack, Shane C Burgess, Scott V Edwards, Eric Lyons, Christina Williams, Matthew Breen, Jason T Howard, Cathy R Gresham, Daniel G Peterson, Jürgen Schmitz, David D Pollock, David Haussler, Eric W Triplett, Guojie Zhang, Naoki Irie, Erich D Jarvis, Christopher A Brochu, Carl J Schmidt, Fiona M McCarthy, Brant C Faircloth, Federico G Hoffmann, Travis C Glenn, Toni Gabaldón, Benedict Paten, David A Ray
Publication date
2014/12/12
Journal
Science
Volume
346
Issue
6215
Pages
1254449
Publisher
American Association for the Advancement of Science
Description
INTRODUCTION
Crocodilians and birds are the two extant clades of archosaurs, a group that includes the extinct dinosaurs and pterosaurs. Fossils suggest that living crocodilians (alligators, crocodiles, and gharials) have a most recent common ancestor 80 to 100 million years ago. Extant crocodilians are notable for their distinct morphology, limited intraspecific variation, and slow karyotype evolution. Despite their unique biology and phylogenetic position, little is known about genome evolution within crocodilians.
Evolutionary rates of tetrapods inferred from DNA sequences anchored by ultraconserved elements. Evolutionary rates among reptiles vary, with especially low rates among extant crocodilians but high rates among squamates. We have reconstructed the genomes of the common ancestor of birds and of all archosaurs (shown in gray silhouette, although the morphology of these species is uncertain …
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