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How do we infer phylogenetic relationships from electrophoretic studies? What is the value of such phylogenies? What can we infer from these phylogenies about the processes of divergence? These are the questions that we have tried to answer empirically by analyzing genetic variability in 76 taxa of rodents, most of them being muroids. Our approach is comparable to that of Patton and Avise (1983), and is aimed at comparing the values of quantitative and qualitative analyses of electrophoretic data. However, their material and ours differ in evolutionary patterns, and the results differ accordingly in some respects.
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Bonhomme, F., Iskandar, D., Thaler, L., Petter, F. (1985). Electromorphs and Phylogeny in Muroid Rodents. In: Luckett, W.P., Hartenberger, JL. (eds) Evolutionary Relationships among Rodents. NATO Advanced Science Institutes (ASI) Series, vol 92. Springer, Boston, MA. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4899-0539-0_26
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