Evolutionary and phylogenetic insights from a nuclear genome sequence of the extinct, giant subfossil koala lemur Megaladapis edwardsi
Stephanie Marciniak, Mehreen R. Mughal, Laurie R. Godfrey, Richard J. Bankoff, Heritiana D. D. Randrianatoandro, Brooke Erin Crowley, Christina M. Bergey, Kathleen M. Muldoon, Jeannot Randrianasy, Brigitte Marie Raharivololona, Stephan Christoph Schuster, Ripan Singh Malhi, Anne D. Yoder, Edward E. Louis, Logan Kistler, George H. Perry
The paper presents a nuclear genome sequence of the extinct koala lemur Megaladapis edwardsi and compares it with extant lemurs and non-lemur vertebrates to resolve phylogenetic relationships and evolutionary adaptations.
Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences · Jun 23, 2021Peer-reviewedGenomics