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Arrival and diversification of caviomorph rodents and platyrrhine primates in South America.
Systematic biology - 1 Apr 2006
Poux Céline, Chevret Pascale, Huchon Dorothée, de Jong Wilfried W, Douzery Emmanuel J P
Abstract excerpt
Platyrrhine primates and caviomorph rodents are clades of mammals that colonized South America during its period of isolation from the other continents, between 100 and 3 million years ago (Mya). Until now, no molecular study investigated the timing of the South American colonization by these two lineages with the same molecular data set. Using sequences from three nuclear genes (ADRA2B, vWF, and IRBP, both...
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