Multigene phylogeny of the Mustelidae: Resolving relationships, tempo and biogeographic history of a mammalian adaptive radiation by Veron Geraldine, Lucherini Mauro, Grassman Lon, Begg Colleen, Begg Keith, Slater Graham J, Deere Kerry A, Koepfli Klaus-Peter, Wayne Robert K

“…As with other groups that have undergone adaptive radiation, resolving the phylogenetic history of mustelids presents a number of challenges because ecomorphological convergence may potentially confound morphologically based phylogenetic inferences, and because adaptive radiations often include one or more periods of rapid cladogenesis that require a large amount of data to resolve.…”
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