DNA hybridization evidence for the Australasian affinity of the American marsupial Dromiciops australis.

doi:10.1073/pnas.88.23.10465

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DNA hybridization evidence for the Australasian affinity of the American marsupial Dromiciops australis.

Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America - 1 Dec 1991

Kirsch J A, Dickerman A W, Reig O A, Springer M S

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DNA hybridization was used to compare representatives of the major groups of marsupials and a eutherian outgroup. Because of the large genetic distances separating marsupial families, trees were calculated from normalized percentages of hybridization; thermal-melting statistics, however, gave ide...

Topics

Animals
Australia
Biological Evolution
DNA
Genetic Variation
Genome
Marsupialia
Nucleic Acid Hybridization
South America

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