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Molecular decay of the tooth gene Enamelin (ENAM) mirrors the loss of enamel in the fossil record of placental mammals.

PLoS genetics - 1 Sept 2009

Meredith Robert W, Gatesy John, Murphy William J, Ryder Oliver A, Springer Mark S

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Vestigial structures occur at both the anatomical and molecular levels, but studies documenting the co-occurrence of morphological degeneration in the fossil record and molecular decay in the genome are rare. Here, we use morphology, the fossil record, and phylogenetics to predict the occurrence...

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PMID: 19730686
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pgen.1000634
PMCID: PMC2728479

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