Flying lemurs – The 'flying tree shrews'? Molecular cytogenetic evidence for a Scandentia-Dermoptera sister clade

<p>Abstract</p> <p>Background</p> <p>Flying lemurs or Colugos (order Dermoptera) represent an ancient mammalian lineage that contains only two extant species. Although molecular evidence strongly supports that the orders Dermoptera, Scandentia, Lagomorpha, Rodentia and...

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Main Authors: Volobouev Vitaly, Tanomtong Alongkoad, Su Weiting, Wang Jinhuan, O'Brien Patricia CM, Fu Beiyuan, Nie Wenhui, Ferguson-Smith Malcolm A, Yang Fengtang
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: BMC 2008-05-01
Series:BMC Biology
Online Access:http://www.biomedcentral.com/1741-7007/6/18