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A mitogenomic timetree for Darwin’s enigmatic South American mammal Macrauchenia patachonica

A mitogenomic timetree for Darwin’s enigmatic South American mammal Macrauchenia patachonica

https://devfeature-collection.sl.nsw.gov.au/record/TN_cdi_doaj_primary_oai_doaj_org_article_d49c09d93c854982bfa03db9f40f7458

A mitogenomic timetree for Darwin’s enigmatic South American mammal Macrauchenia patachonica

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A mitogenomic timetree for Darwin’s enigmatic South American mammal Macrauchenia patachonica

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London: Nature Publishing Group UK

Journal title

Nature communications, 2017-06, Vol.8 (1), p.15951-15951, Article 15951

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English

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London: Nature Publishing Group UK

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The unusual mix of morphological traits displayed by extinct South American native ungulates (SANUs) confounded both Charles Darwin, who first discovered them, and Richard Owen, who tried to resolve their relationships. Here we report an almost complete mitochondrial genome for the litoptern
Macrauchenia
. Our dated phylogenetic tree places

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A mitogenomic timetree for Darwin’s enigmatic South American mammal Macrauchenia patachonica

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TN_cdi_doaj_primary_oai_doaj_org_article_d49c09d93c854982bfa03db9f40f7458

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https://devfeature-collection.sl.nsw.gov.au/record/TN_cdi_doaj_primary_oai_doaj_org_article_d49c09d93c854982bfa03db9f40f7458

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2041-1723

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2041-1723

DOI

10.1038/ncomms15951

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