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The Use of Amino Acid Sequences in Phylogenetic Analysis

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  17 July 2017

K.A. Joysey
K.A. Joysey*
Affiliation:
University Museum of Zoology, Downing Street, Cambridge, England
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It seems likely that I was invited to contribute to this course because I am a renegade geologist. Many years ago I was lured by the attractions of living animals and switched to zoology. Later I became interested in the possibility of using immunological methods to assess evolutionary relationships among shrews, moles, hedgehogs, tree-shrews, elephant-shrews, otter-shrews, golden-moles and tenrecs, and I set a graduate student onto this project. We also sought to explore the relationships between these so-called ‘Insectivora’ and other orders of mammals, using immunological techniques to estimate crude biochemical distances between the serum proteins of representative species.

Type
Research Article
Information
Short Courses in Paleontology , Volume 1: Molecular Evolution and the Fossil Record , 1988 , pp. 34 - 48
Copyright
Copyright © 1988 Paleontological Society 

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