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This project investigates the genomic basis of convergent evolution in sloths, focusing on their unique adaptations for arboreal life. By sequencing and analyzing sloth genomes, it aims to uncover evolutionary patterns that led to their specialized locomotion and low metabolic rates.
At the end of the Pleistocene mass extinctions of the mega-fauna occurred worldwide, in particular in the Americas.
Following the last glacial period, mammoths, mastodonts, giant sloths and other large mammals succumbed until extinction (about 10,000 years ago).
While some Orders within Mammalia lost a couple of species, the sloths (Folivora, Xenarthra) clade has virtually lost all its diversity, gaining a status of a nearly-extinct suborder.
Only two out of the close to 100 genera estimated to…
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