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Thylacine tales

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The genome of the extinct thylacine, also known as the Tasmanian tiger, has been sequenced from a 109-year-old museum specimen. The sequence resolves the phylogenetic placement of the species and reveals details of convergent evolution between the thylacine and eutherian canines.

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Fig. 1: Phylogenetic placement of the Tasmanian tiger.

a, The Natural History Museum/Alamy Stock Photo.

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  1. Department of Archaeology, Durham University, Durham, UK

    Ross Barnett

  2. Natural History Museum of Denmark, University of Copenhagen, Copenhagen, Denmark

    Eline Lorenzen

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Barnett, R., Lorenzen, E. Thylacine tales. Nat Ecol Evol 2, 7–8 (2018). https://doi.org/10.1038/s41559-017-0384-3

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