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Bandicoot fossils and DNA elucidate lineage antiquity amongst xeric-adapted Australasian marsupials

Bandicoots (Peramelemorphia) are a unique order of Australasian marsupials whose sparse fossil record has been used as prima facie evidence for climate change coincident faunal turnover. In particular, the hypothesized replacement of ancient rainforest-dwelling extinct lineages by antecedents of xer...

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Autores principales: Kear, Benjamin P., Aplin, Ken P., Westerman, Michael
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Nature Publishing Group 2016
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5121598/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/27881865
http://dx.doi.org/10.1038/srep37537