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Figure 1: Combined evolutionary tree for 19 mammals, based on 12 proteins encoded by the vertebrate mitochondrial genome.

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Penny, D., Hasegawa, M. The platypus put in its place. Nature 387, 549–550 (1997). https://doi.org/10.1038/42352

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