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Science 2 March 2001:
Vol. 291. no. 5509, pp. 1709 - 1711
DOI: 10.1126/science.1059434
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Perspectives

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PHYLOGENETICS:
Enhanced: Which Mammalian Supertree to Bark Up?

Mark S. Springer and Wilfried W. de Jong

Understanding how mammals evolved will be essential to interpreting comparisons between the human genome and the genomes of other mammals. In a Perspective, Springer and de Jong explain new work that combines both molecular and morphological published data sets to yield a new supertree of mammalian relationships that has features of both traditional morphological supertrees and the newer plethora of molecular supertrees.

M. S. Springer is in the Department of Biology, University of California, Riverside, CA 92521, USA. W. W. de Jong is in the Department of Biochemistry, University of Nijmegen, Nijmegen, Netherlands, and the Institute for Biodiversity and Ecosystems Dynamics, University of Amsterdam, Netherlands.

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Supertree Bootstrapping Methods for Assessing Phylogenetic Variation among Genes in Genome-Scale Data Sets.
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Molecular Evolution of the Mammalian Alpha 2B Adrenergic Receptor.
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Molecular Phylogeny of Living Xenarthrans and the Impact of Character and Taxon Sampling on the Placental Tree Rooting.
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The dog as a model to study human epididymal function at a molecular level.
C. Kirchhoff (2002)
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Microbat paraphyly and the convergent evolution of a key innovation in Old World rhinolophoid microbats.
E. C. Teeling, O. Madsen, R. A. Van Den Bussche, W. W. de Jong, M. J. Stanhope, and M. S. Springer (2002)
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Microbat paraphyly and the convergent evolution of a key innovation in Old World rhinolophoid microbats.
E. C. Teeling, O. Madsen, R. A. Van Den Bussche, W. W. de Jong, M. J. Stanhope, and M. S. Springer (2002)
PNAS 99, 1431-1436
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