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Molecular Evolution of Myoglobin and the Fossil Record: a Phylogenetic Synthesis

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An ancestral myoglobin chain has been deduced by comparing the differences in the amino acid sequences of eighteen living species and assessing from the fossil evidence the probable times of divergence of their ancestors.

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ROMERO-HERRERA, A., LEHMANN, H., JOYSEY, K. et al. Molecular Evolution of Myoglobin and the Fossil Record: a Phylogenetic Synthesis. Nature 246, 389–395 (1973). https://doi.org/10.1038/246389a0

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