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Comment
. 2012 May;108(5):471-2.
doi: 10.1038/hdy.2011.126. Epub 2012 Feb 29.

Hearing echoes

Y F Chan
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Hearing echoes

Y F Chan. Heredity (Edinb). 2012 May.
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Figure 1
Figure 1
Tangled branches. Parallel mutations at the hearing genes Prestin (Li et al., 2010), Tmc1 and Pjvk (Davies et al., 2012) cause the trees, built from its coding sequences (middle and right panel), to mistake long-diverged echolocating species as close relatives (left panel).
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