Retroposed elements as archives for the evolutionary history of placental mammals.
Reconstruction of the placental mammalian (eutherian) evolutionary tree has undergone diverse revisions, and numerous aspects remain hotly debated. Initial hierarchical divisions based on morphology contained many misgroupings due to features that evolved independently by similar selection processes...
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Format: | Article |
Language: | English |
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Public Library of Science (PLoS)
2006-04-01
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Series: | PLoS Biology |
Online Access: | https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pbio.0040091 |