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SUBMITTER: Orlando L
PROVIDER: S-EPMC2674638 | biostudies-literature | 2007 Mar
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
Orlando Ludovic L Hänni Catherine C Douady Christophe J CJ
Evolutionary bioinformatics online 20070329
At the morphological level, the woolly mammoth has most often been considered as the sister-species of Asian elephants, but at the DNA level, different studies have found support for proximity with African elephants. Recent reports have increased the available sequence data and apparently solved the discrepancy, finding mammoths to be most closely related to Asian elephants. However, we demonstrate here that the three competing topologies have similar likelihood, bayesian and parsimony supports. ...[more]