The ancestral eutherian karyotype is present in Xenarthra.
Molecular studies have led recently to the proposal of a new super-ordinal arrangement of the 18 extant Eutherian orders. From the four proposed super-orders, Afrotheria and Xenarthra were considered the most basal. Chromosome-painting studies with human probes in these two mammalian groups are thus...
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| Format: | Article |
| Language: | English |
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Public Library of Science (PLoS)
2006-07-01
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| Series: | PLoS Genetics |
| Online Access: | http://europepmc.org/articles/PMC1513266?pdf=render |