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Inference of the ancestral vertebrate phenotype through vestiges of the whole-genome duplications.
Briefings in functional genomics - 27 Sept 2018
Onimaru Koh, Kuraku Shigehiro
Abstract excerpt
Inferring the phenotype of the last common ancestor of living vertebrates is a challenging problem because of several unresolvable factors. They include the lack of reliable out-groups of living vertebrates, poor information about less fossilizable organs and specialized traits of phylogenetically important species, such as lampreys and hagfishes (e.g. secondary loss of vertebrae in adult hagfishes). These...
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