ArticlePhilosophical transactions of the Royal Society of London. Series B, Biological sciences2023
Multiple modes of inference reveal less phylogenetic signal in marsupial basicranial shape compared with the rest of the cranium.
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- Multiple modes of inference reveal less phylogenetic signal in marsupial basicranial shape compared with the rest of the cranium.Philosophical transactions of the Royal Society of London. Series B, Biological sciences · 2023Article
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Abstract
Incorporating morphological data into modern phylogenies allows integration of fossil evidence, facilitating divergence dating and macroevolutionary inferences. Improvements in the phylogenetic utility of morphological data have been sought via Procrustes-based geometric morphometrics (GMM), but with mixed success and little clarity over what anatomical areas are most suitable. Here, we assess GMM-based phylogenetic reconstructions in a heavily sampled source of discrete characters for mammalian phylogenetics-the basicranium-in 57 species of marsupial mammals, compared with the remainder of the cranium. We show less phylogenetic signal in the basicranium compared with a 'Rest of Cranium' partition, using diverse metrics of phylogenetic signal (
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