Molecular Decay of the Tooth Gene Enamelin (ENAM) Mirrors the Loss of Enamel in the Fossil Record of Placental Mammals

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 of...

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Autores principales: Meredith, Robert W., Gatesy, John, Murphy, William J., Ryder, Oliver A., Springer, Mark S.
Formato: Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Public Library of Science 2009
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Research Article
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2728479/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/19730686
http://dx.doi.org/10.1371/journal.pgen.1000634

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