Molecular and Genomic Data Identify the Closest Living Relative of Primates

@article{Janecka2007MolecularAG,
  title={Molecular and Genomic Data Identify the Closest Living Relative of Primates},
  author={Jan E. Janecka and Webb Miller and Tom H. Pringle and Frank Wiens and Annette Zitzmann and Kristofer M. Helgen and Mark S. Springer and William J. Murphy},
  journal={Science},
  year={2007},
  volume={318},
  pages={792 - 794}
}
A full understanding of primate morphological and genomic evolution requires the identification of their closest living relative. In order to resolve the ancestral relationships among primates and their closest relatives, we searched multispecies genome alignments for phylogenetically informative rare genomic changes within the superordinal group Euarchonta, which includes the orders Primates, Dermoptera (colugos), and Scandentia (treeshrews). We also constructed phylogenetic trees from 14… 
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