Fig. 1: Phylogeny and silhouettes depicting the sample of Afrotheria and their analogues. | Nature Communications

Fig. 1: Phylogeny and silhouettes depicting the sample of Afrotheria and their analogues.

From: Convergent evolution in Afrotheria and non-afrotherians demonstrates high evolvability of the mammalian inner ear

Fig. 1

a Phylogenetic relationships between Afrotheria (blue) and the other mammals in our sample (black), for which we follow the Atlantogenata hypothesis. b Taxa are depicted as their silhouettes, with each row showing the afrotherians (blue) and their ecological and/or morphological analogue(s) (black). The basis of analogy was overall body morphology (e.g., the greater hedgehog tenrec, Setifer setosus, and the true hedgehog, Erinaceus europaeus), specific morphological traits (e.g., relative hindlimb length as in the larger-bodied elephant shrew, Rhynchocyon cirnei, the mouse deer, Tragulus javanicus, and rabbit, Oryctolagus cuniculus), and/or locomotion and habitat (e.g., the sea cows and the dolphin). See Table 1 for more details. Silhouettes are by the authors and from www.phylopic.org. Credits go to Kai Caspar for C. hottentotus (creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/), to Roberto Díaz Sibaja for E. europaeus (creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/), to Sarah Werning for O. anatinus (creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/), and to Chris Huh for S. fluviatilis (creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/3.0/). No changes to these silhouettes were made.

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