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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 identical topologies for the well-supported clades. The most notable results were the association of the only extant...
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