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Molecular Biology and Evolution, Vol 3, 222-242, Copyright © 1986 by Society for Molecular Biology and Evolution

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Mammalian phylogeny: comparison of morphological and molecular results

J Shoshani
Department of Biological Sciences, Wayne State University, Detroit, Michigan 48202.

In an attempt to resolve the "bushy" part at the root of the eutherian tree, 182 nondental morphological characters from 100 species (79 extant and 21 extinct; 98 mammalian and 2 nonmammalian) were analyzed using two maximum-parsimony tree-building algorithms. Parallel analyses of 2,258 pairwise immunodiffusion comparisons with chicken antisera on 101 mammalian species and of amino acid sequence data of alpha and beta hemoglobins and other published protein sequences were also carried out. The morphological and molecular phylogenies agree in depicting the infraclass Eutheria as consisting of five major clades (thus resolving part of the "bush"). Rates of evolution were also found to be similar in the two types of phylogenies.
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