Eutheria
Sign in to saveEutheria (from Ancient Greek εὐ- (eú-), meaning "true, well", and θηρίον (thēríon), meaning "beast", and thus, "true beasts"), also called Pan-Placentalia, is the clade consisting of placental mammals and all therian mammals that are more closely related to placentals than to marsupials. Placentalia is the only surviving taxon of Eutherians, and the two are synonymous outside of paleozoology.
Research
27,590,819 papers- The eutheria-specific miR-290 cluster modulates placental growth and maternal-fetal transport.Development (Cambridge, England) · 2017
- Rapid divergence of a gamete recognition gene promoted macroevolution of Eutheria.Genome biology · 2022
- Identifying SARS-CoV-2-related coronaviruses in Malayan pangolins.Nature · 2020
- Afrotheria.Current biology : CB · 2022
- Placental glycotype of the caviomorph rodent Lagostomus maximus and its evolution within Eutheria.Journal of morphology · 2023
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Eutheria (from Ancient Greek εὐ- (eú-), meaning "true, well", and θηρίον (thēríon), meaning "beast", and thus, "true beasts"), also called Pan-Placentalia, is the clade consisting of placental mammals and all therian mammals that are more closely related to placentals than to marsupials. Placentalia is the only surviving taxon of Eutherians, and the two are synonymous outside of paleozoology.
Eutherians are distinguished from non-eutherians by various phenotypic traits of the feet, ankles, jaws and teeth. All extant eutherians lack epipubic bones, which are present in all other living mammals (marsupials and monotremes). This allows for expansion of the abdomen during pregnancy, though epipubic bones are present in a number of primitive eutherians. Eutheria was named in 1872 by Theodore Gill; in 1880, Thomas Henry Huxley defined it to encompass a more broadly defined group than Placentalia.