Improving evolutionary Tree of Life: Study provides robust molecular phylogeny for mammalian families
Thursday, September 22, 2011 - 14:00
in Biology & Nature
An international research team led by biologists at the University of California, Riverside and Texas A&M University has released for the first time a large and robust DNA matrix that has representation for all mammalian families. The matrix the culmination of about five years of painstaking research has representatives for 99 percent of mammalian families, and covers not only the earliest history of mammalian diversification but also all the deepest divergences among living mammals.