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The delayed rise of present-day mammals

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2007

Authors

Bininda-Edmonds, Olaf R P
Cardillo, Marcel
Jones, Kate E.
MacPhee, Ross D E
Beck, Robin M D
Grenyer, Richard
Price, Samantha A
Vos, Rutger A
Gittleman, John L.
Purvis, Andy

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Macmillan Publishers Ltd

Abstract

Did the end-Cretaceous mass extinction event, by eliminating non-avian dinosaurs and most of the existing fauna, trigger the evolutionary radiation of present-day mammals? Here we construct, date and analyse a species-level phylogeny of nearly all extant

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Keywords: Cretaceous-Tertiary boundary; dinosaur; evolutionary biology; mammal; mass extinction; phylogenetics; phylogeny; article; Cretaceous; Eocene; genetic variability; mammal; molecular phylogeny; Oligocene; ordo; phylogenetic tree; priority journal; sequence

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http://hdl.handle.net/1885/31685

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ANU Research Publications

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Nature

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Journal article

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DOI

10.1038/nature05634

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2037-12-31

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