Total evidence phylogeny and evolutionary timescale for Australian faunivorous marsupials (Dasyuromorphia)
Abstract Background The order Dasyuromorphia is a diverse radiation of faunivorous marsupials, comprising >80 modern species in Australia and New Guinea. It includes dasyurids, the numbat (the myrmecobiid Myrmecobius fasciatus) and the recently extinct thylacine (the thylacinid Thylacinus cyncoce...
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| Language: | English |
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BMC
2017-12-01
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| Series: | BMC Evolutionary Biology |
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| Online Access: | http://link.springer.com/article/10.1186/s12862-017-1090-0 |