Comentario técnico sobre "El antepasado placentario de los mamíferos y la radiación post-K-Pg de las placentas"

Mark S Springer1, Robert W Meredith, Emma C Teeling

  • 1Department of Biology, University of California, Riverside, CA 92521, USA. mark.springer@ucr.edu

Science (New York, N.Y.)
|August 10, 2013
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Resumen

Un estudio sobre la evolución de los mamíferos sugiere que un solo antepasado placentario existió en el límite Cretácico-Paleógeno. Este hallazgo se basa en análisis filogenéticos con posibles limitaciones para distinguir la homología de homoplasy.

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