... of karyotypic conservatism in the cat-like suborder Feliformia relative to the ancestral carnivore karyotype (ACK). The first exception to this high degree of karyotypic conservation in feliforms was recently confirmed in genets, mesocarnivores belonging to the basal family Viverridae. Here, we present...

... states one should consider phylogenetic branching of the families [Eizirik et al., 2010]. Nie et al. [2012] provided a detailed figure of karyotype relationships in Carnivora mapped onto a phylogenetic tree. In general, it is agreed that there are 2 major groups in the order, Caniformia and Feliformia...