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Molecular phylogeny and divergence times of Malagasy tenrecs: Influence of data partitioning and taxon sampling on dating analyses

Overview of attention for article published in BMC Ecology and Evolution, March 2008
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Title
Molecular phylogeny and divergence times of Malagasy tenrecs: Influence of data partitioning and taxon sampling on dating analyses
Published in
BMC Ecology and Evolution, March 2008
DOI 10.1186/1471-2148-8-102
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Authors

Céline Poux, Ole Madsen, Julian Glos, Wilfried W de Jong, Miguel Vences

Abstract

Malagasy tenrecs belong to the Afrotherian clade of placental mammals and comprise three subfamilies divided in eight genera (Tenrecinae: Tenrec, Echinops, Setifer and Hemicentetes; Oryzorictinae: Oryzorictes, Limnogale and Microgale; Geogalinae:Geogale). The diversity of their morphology and incomplete taxon sampling made it difficult until now to resolve phylogenies based on either morphology or molecular data for this group. Therefore, in order to delineate the evolutionary history of this family, phylogenetic and dating analyses were performed on a four nuclear genes dataset (ADRA2B, AR, GHR and vWF) including all Malagasy tenrec genera. Moreover, the influence of both taxon sampling and data partitioning on the accuracy of the estimated ages were assessed.

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Geographical breakdown

Country Count As %
United States 8 5%
United Kingdom 3 2%
Portugal 2 1%
South Africa 1 <1%
Germany 1 <1%
Russia 1 <1%
France 1 <1%
Unknown 132 89%

Demographic breakdown

Readers by professional status Count As %
Researcher 36 24%
Student > Ph. D. Student 32 21%
Student > Master 20 13%
Student > Bachelor 15 10%
Professor > Associate Professor 8 5%
Other 24 16%
Unknown 14 9%
Readers by discipline Count As %
Agricultural and Biological Sciences 101 68%
Environmental Science 9 6%
Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology 8 5%
Earth and Planetary Sciences 7 5%
Medicine and Dentistry 3 2%
Other 6 4%
Unknown 15 10%
Attention Score in Context

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This research output has an Altmetric Attention Score of 16. This is our high-level measure of the quality and quantity of online attention that it has received. This Attention Score, as well as the ranking and number of research outputs shown below, was calculated when the research output was last mentioned on 12 January 2024.
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#2,202,150
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