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Sep
23
Evolutionary Tree of Life for Mammals Greatly Improved
UncategorizedLink: http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2011/09/110922141907.htm
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.
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