Evidence from milk casein genes that cetaceans are close relatives of hippopotamid artiodactyls
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Evidence from milk casein genes that cetaceans are close relatives of hippopotamid artiodactyls.
The inferred transition from terrestrial hoofed mammal to fully aquatic cetacean has been intensively studied with fossil evidence. However, large sections of this remarkable evolutionary sequence are missing. Phylogenetic analysis of extant taxa may help to fill in some of these gaps. In this report, kappa-casein (exon 4) and beta-casein (exon 7) milk protein genes from cetaceans and other pla...
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عنوان ژورنال: Molecular Biology and Evolution
سال: 1996
ISSN: 0737-4038,1537-1719
DOI: 10.1093/oxfordjournals.molbev.a025663