Table 2.
Rate-shifted clades. MSW taxon = name of clade in Wilson & Reeder [4]. n = number of species in clade, nsister = number of species in sister clade, nancs = number of species in sister group to ancestral node.
| MSW taxon (3rd edn) | age (Myr) | n | nsister | nancs | node label |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| (a) Clades arising from significant (p ≤ 0.05) upshifts in diversification rate (100-fold shift in λsister) as measured by Δ1 [37] | |||||
| ‘Boreoeutheria’ | 96.2 | 4614 | 29 | 69 | 8 |
| Dipodomyinae + Perognathinae + some Geomyidae (Rodentia) | 35.9 | 96 | 2 | 1456 | 443 |
| Sciurinae + Xerinae + Calloscurinae (Rodentia; Sciuridae) | 40.2 | 275 | 1 | 1 | 585 |
| Sciurinae (Rodentia; Sciuridae) | 18.2 | 80 | 4 | 7 | 681 |
| within Sylvivagus (Lagomorpha; Leporidae) | 8.3 | 10 | 1 | 2 | 809 |
| Simiiformes | 52.4 | 265 | 7 | 79 | 885 |
| Carnivora | 64.1 | 282 | 8 | 325 | 1330 |
| Hipposideridae + Rhinolophidae (Chiroptera) | 47.5 | 147 | 16 | 5 | 1702 |
| Artibeus (Chiroptera; Phyllostomidae) | 8.6 | 17 | 1 | 26 | 1845 |
| Molossus and allies (Chiroptera; Molossidae) | 22.8 | 58 | 4 | 10 | 1898 |
| Subgenus Sorex (Soricomorpha; Soricidae) | 24 | 47 | 3 | 3 | 2162 |
| Phalangeriformes + Macropodiformes (Diprotodontia) | 45.8 | 122 | 4 | 1 | 2285 |
| Macropus (Diprotodontia; Macropodidae) | 10.1 | 13 | 1 | 2 | 2357 |
| Dasyuridae (Dasyuromorphia) | 25.4 | 63 | 1 | 2 | 2391 |
| Didelphinae (Didelphimorphia; Didelphidae) | 51.6 | 79 | 5 | 216 | 2464 |
| (b) Clades tentatively identified as resulting from downshifts in diversification rate | |||||
| Monotremata | 63.6 | 4 | 5012 | n/a | 2 |
| Anomaluromorpha (Rodentia) | 54.9 | 9 | 1447 | 98 | 15 |
| Castoridae (Rodentia) | 12.1 | 2 | 96 | 1456 | 442 |
| Sciurotamias (Rodentia; Sciuridae) | 5 | 2 | 120 | 6 | 674 |
| Dermoptera | 12.8 | 2 | 351 | 20 | 1115 |
| Giraffidae + Antilocaprinae (Cetartiodactyla) | 20.2 | 3 | 189 | 8 | 1251 |
| Camelidae (Cetartiodactyla) | 21.8 | 3 | 306 | 16 | 1315 |
| Harpionycteris (Chiroptera; Pteropodidae) | 3.8 | 2 | 85 | 12 | 1617 |
| Noctilionidae (Chiroptera) | 3.5 | 2 | 158 | 1 | 1763 |
| Desmodontinae (Chiroptera; Phyllostomidae) | 26.8 | 3 | 147 | 8 | 1772 |
| Solenodeontidae (Soricomorpha) | 40.5 | 2 | 390 | 1669 | 2216 |
| ‘Afrotheria’ | 89.5 | 69 | 4643 | 300 | 2236 |