.2015 Jun 4;522(7554):81-4.

doi: 10.1038/nature14249. Epub 2015 Mar 18.

Ancient proteins resolve the evolutionary history of Darwin's South American ungulates

Frido Welker¹, Matthew J Collins², Jessica A Thomas², Marc Wadsley², Selina Brace³, Enrico Cappellini⁴, Samuel T Turvey⁵, Marcelo Reguero⁶, Javier N Gelfo⁶, Alejandro Kramarz⁷, Joachim Burger⁸, Jane Thomas-Oates⁹, David A Ashford¹⁰, Peter D Ashton¹⁰, Keri Rowsell², Duncan M Porter¹¹, Benedikt Kessler¹², Roman Fischer¹², Carsten Baessmann¹³, Stephanie Kaspar¹³, Jesper V Olsen¹⁴, Patrick Kiley¹⁵, James A Elliott¹⁵, Christian D Kelstrup¹⁴, Victoria Mullin¹⁶, Michael Hofreiter¹⁷, Eske Willerslev⁴, Jean-Jacques Hublin¹⁸, Ludovic Orlando⁴, Ian Barnes³, Ross D E MacPhee¹⁹

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¹ 1] BioArCh, University of York, York YO10 5DD, UK [2] Department of Human Evolution, Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology, 04103 Leipzig, Germany.
² BioArCh, University of York, York YO10 5DD, UK.
³ Department of Earth Sciences, Natural History Museum, London SW7 5BD, UK.
⁴ Centre for GeoGenetics, Natural History Museum of Denmark, University of Copenhagen, Øster Voldgade 5-7, 1350 Copenhagen K, Denmark.
⁵ Institute of Zoology, Zoological Society of London, London NW1 4RY, UK.
⁶ CONICET- División Paleontología de Vertebrados, Museo de La Plata. Facultad de Ciencias Naturales y Museo de La Plata, Universidad Nacional de La Plata. Paseo del Bosque s/n, B1900FWA, La Plata, Argentina.
⁷ Sección Paleontología de Vertebrados. Museo Argentino de Ciencias Naturales "Bernardino Rivadavia", 470 Angel Gallardo Av., C1405DJR, Buenos Aires, Argentina.
⁸ Institute of Anthropology, Johannes Gutenberg-University, Anselm-Franz-von-Bentzel-Weg 7, D-55128 Mainz, Germany.
⁹ Department of Chemistry, University of York, York YO10 5DD, UK.
¹⁰ Bioscience Technology Facility, Department of Biology, University of York, York YO10 5DD, UK.
¹¹ Department of Biological Sciences, Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University, Blacksburg, Virginia 24061, USA.
¹² Target Discovery Institute, Nuffield Department of Medicine, University of Oxford, Roosevelt Drive, Oxford OX3 7FZ, UK.
¹³ Applications Development, Bruker Daltonik GmbH, 28359 Bremen, Germany.
¹⁴ Novo Nordisk Foundation Center for Protein Research, Faculty of Health Sciences, University of Copenhagen, Blegdamsvej 3b, 2200 Copenhagen, Denmark.
¹⁵ Department of Materials Science and Metallurgy, University of Cambridge, Cambridge CB3 0FS, UK.
¹⁶ Smurfit Institute of Genetics, Trinity College Dublin, Dublin 2, Ireland.
¹⁷ 1] BioArCh, University of York, York YO10 5DD, UK [2] Institute for Biochemistry and Biology, Karl-Liebknecht-Strasse 24-25, 14476 Potsdam OT Golm, Germany.
¹⁸ Department of Human Evolution, Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology, 04103 Leipzig, Germany.
¹⁹ Department of Mammalogy, American Museum of Natural History, New York, New York 10024, USA.

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DOI: 10.1038/nature14249

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Ancient proteins resolve the evolutionary history of Darwin's South American ungulates

Frido Welker et al. Nature.2015.

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.2015 Jun 4;522(7554):81-4.

doi: 10.1038/nature14249. Epub 2015 Mar 18.

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¹ 1] BioArCh, University of York, York YO10 5DD, UK [2] Department of Human Evolution, Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology, 04103 Leipzig, Germany.
² BioArCh, University of York, York YO10 5DD, UK.
³ Department of Earth Sciences, Natural History Museum, London SW7 5BD, UK.
⁴ Centre for GeoGenetics, Natural History Museum of Denmark, University of Copenhagen, Øster Voldgade 5-7, 1350 Copenhagen K, Denmark.
⁵ Institute of Zoology, Zoological Society of London, London NW1 4RY, UK.
⁶ CONICET- División Paleontología de Vertebrados, Museo de La Plata. Facultad de Ciencias Naturales y Museo de La Plata, Universidad Nacional de La Plata. Paseo del Bosque s/n, B1900FWA, La Plata, Argentina.
⁷ Sección Paleontología de Vertebrados. Museo Argentino de Ciencias Naturales "Bernardino Rivadavia", 470 Angel Gallardo Av., C1405DJR, Buenos Aires, Argentina.
⁸ Institute of Anthropology, Johannes Gutenberg-University, Anselm-Franz-von-Bentzel-Weg 7, D-55128 Mainz, Germany.
⁹ Department of Chemistry, University of York, York YO10 5DD, UK.
¹⁰ Bioscience Technology Facility, Department of Biology, University of York, York YO10 5DD, UK.
¹¹ Department of Biological Sciences, Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University, Blacksburg, Virginia 24061, USA.
¹² Target Discovery Institute, Nuffield Department of Medicine, University of Oxford, Roosevelt Drive, Oxford OX3 7FZ, UK.
¹³ Applications Development, Bruker Daltonik GmbH, 28359 Bremen, Germany.
¹⁴ Novo Nordisk Foundation Center for Protein Research, Faculty of Health Sciences, University of Copenhagen, Blegdamsvej 3b, 2200 Copenhagen, Denmark.
¹⁵ Department of Materials Science and Metallurgy, University of Cambridge, Cambridge CB3 0FS, UK.
¹⁶ Smurfit Institute of Genetics, Trinity College Dublin, Dublin 2, Ireland.
¹⁷ 1] BioArCh, University of York, York YO10 5DD, UK [2] Institute for Biochemistry and Biology, Karl-Liebknecht-Strasse 24-25, 14476 Potsdam OT Golm, Germany.
¹⁸ Department of Human Evolution, Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology, 04103 Leipzig, Germany.
¹⁹ Department of Mammalogy, American Museum of Natural History, New York, New York 10024, USA.

PMID:25799987
DOI: 10.1038/nature14249

Abstract

No large group of recently extinct placental mammals remains as evolutionarily cryptic as the approximately 280 genera grouped as 'South American native ungulates'. To Charles Darwin, who first collected their remains, they included perhaps the 'strangest animal[s] ever discovered'. Today, much like 180 years ago, it is no clearer whether they had one origin or several, arose before or after the Cretaceous/Palaeogene transition 66.2 million years ago, or are more likely to belong with the elephants and sirenians of superorder Afrotheria than with the euungulates (cattle, horses, and allies) of superorder Laurasiatheria. Morphology-based analyses have proved unconvincing because convergences are pervasive among unrelated ungulate-like placentals. Approaches using ancient DNA have also been unsuccessful, probably because of rapid DNA degradation in semitropical and temperate deposits. Here we apply proteomic analysis to screen bone samples of the Late Quaternary South American native ungulate taxa Toxodon (Notoungulata) and Macrauchenia (Litopterna) for phylogenetically informative protein sequences. For each ungulate, we obtain approximately 90% direct sequence coverage of type I collagen α1- and α2-chains, representing approximately 900 of 1,140 amino-acid residues for each subunit. A phylogeny is estimated from an alignment of these fossil sequences with collagen (I) gene transcripts from available mammalian genomes or mass spectrometrically derived sequence data obtained for this study. The resulting consensus tree agrees well with recent higher-level mammalian phylogenies. Toxodon and Macrauchenia form a monophyletic group whose sister taxon is not Afrotheria or any of its constituent clades as recently claimed, but instead crown Perissodactyla (horses, tapirs, and rhinoceroses). These results are consistent with the origin of at least some South American native ungulates from 'condylarths', a paraphyletic assembly of archaic placentals. With ongoing improvements in instrumentation and analytical procedures, proteomics may produce a revolution in systematics such as that achieved by genomics, but with the possibility of reaching much further back in time.

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