tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4209921721314660731.post2037996534456985919..comments2024-03-10T19:39:07.469+00:00Comments on Synapsida: Bovines: Bison bison bison, the BisonJK Revellhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00358838350092883422noreply@blogger.comBlogger4125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4209921721314660731.post-587757755182589032016-04-25T19:17:09.640+01:002016-04-25T19:17:09.640+01:00Oh, indeed. As I say, there's no strong reason...Oh, indeed. As I say, there's no strong reason to suppose this will stand. It depends a lot on which genetic/morphological factors you happen to consider most significant. It's entirely possible, for instance, that there was some admixture between aurochs and European bison in the relatively recent past, evolutionarily speaking, and that that's muddying the waters.JK Revellhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/00358838350092883422noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4209921721314660731.post-14112187512944578832016-04-25T15:22:05.525+01:002016-04-25T15:22:05.525+01:00Concerning bison relationships and similar questio...Concerning bison relationships and similar questions, the first paper is in open access and contains this paragraph:<br /><br />"Conflict is also present with regard to taxonomic revisions made at the species level. Relationships based on mitochondrial genomes benefit from independent confirmation by nuclear genes e.g. [97]. For example, the mitochondrial sister relationships of <i>Capra sibirica</i> to <i>Hemitragus jemlahicus</i> and <i>Bos (Bison) bonasus</i> to <i>Bos taurus</i>, which result in the polyphyly of <i>Capra</i> and the bisons, are contradicted by both nuclear genomic and morphological analyses that both support the monophyly of these two taxa [97–102]. Analyses such as those presented here or by Hassanin et al. [8] similarly support previous findings [103] regarding mitochondrial polyphyly within the bushbuck (here labelled <i>T. scriptus</i> 1 and <i>T. scriptus</i> 2 + 3 in Figure 1). However, these mitochondrial relationships contradict morphological evidence, and, in light of the examples of the bisons and <i>Capra</i>, the elevation of <i>T. scriptus sylvaticus</i> to the level of a separate species (<i>T. sylvaticus</i>) unrelated to <i>T. scriptus</i> should await further confirmation from the nuclear genome [103]. The possibility of incomplete lineage sorting, or mitochondrial lineage introgression among geographically proximate tragelaphin species, as probably occurred within Caprini and Bovini, has not yet been ruled out."David Marjanovićhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/00233722577300632805noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4209921721314660731.post-59206884023792807892016-04-24T21:33:29.149+01:002016-04-24T21:33:29.149+01:00The OED strikes out again! Although it did at leas...The OED strikes out again! Although it did at least agree that the (alleged) Portuguese word came from the Greek "bubalus".JK Revellhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/00358838350092883422noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4209921721314660731.post-17790293524145730602016-04-24T21:05:12.027+01:002016-04-24T21:05:12.027+01:00Buffalo is not Portuguese. It's an Italian for...Buffalo is not Portuguese. It's an Italian form /bufalo/ of a Greek Bubalus or Bubalis.João Simõeshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/10222169018695033058noreply@blogger.com