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Differences in the amino-acid sequences of corresponding globin proteins have been used to calculate when marsupials and eutherians diverged in evolution.
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AIR, G., THOMPSON, E., RICHARDSON, B. et al. Amino-acid Sequences of Kangaroo Myoglobin and Haemoglobin and the Date of Marsupial-Eutherian Divergence. Nature 229, 391–394 (1971). https://doi.org/10.1038/229391a0
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