• DOI:10.1023/A:1020523120739
Corpus ID: 39638466

Evolution of the Monotremes: Phylogenetic Relationship to Marsupials and Eutherians, and Estimation of Divergence Dates Based on α-Lactalbumin Amino Acid Sequences

@article{Messer2004EvolutionOT,
  title={Evolution of the Monotremes: Phylogenetic Relationship to Marsupials and Eutherians, and Estimation of Divergence Dates Based on α-Lactalbumin Amino Acid Sequences},
  author={M. Messer and A. Weiss and D. Shaw and M. Westerman},
  journal={Journal of Mammalian Evolution},
  year={2004},
  volume={5},
  pages={95-105}
}

M. Messer, A. Weiss, +1 author M. Westerman

Published 2004

Biology

Journal of Mammalian Evolution

The amino acid sequences of the α-lactalbumins of the echidna, Tachyglossus aculeatus, and the platypus, Ornithorhynchus anatinus, were compared with each other and with those of 13 eutherian and 3 marsupial species. Phylogenetic parsimony analyses, in which selected mammalian lysozymes were used as outgroups, yielded trees whose consensus indicated that the two monotremes are sister taxa to marsupials and eutherians and that the latter two clades are each other's closest relatives. The data do… CONTINUE READING

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