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Evolution from Amphibians to Birds and Mammals and the Abrupt Cessation of Nature’s Experiment at the Reptilian Stage

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In Table 5, frogs and toads of the order Anura (descendants of the main labyrinthodont lineage of early amphibians) are compared to salamanders and newts of Urodela (lepospondyls side branch). It immediately becomes clear that their genomes reflect the fact that the two belong to different lineages.

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Ohno, S. (1970). Evolution from Amphibians to Birds and Mammals and the Abrupt Cessation of Nature’s Experiment at the Reptilian Stage. In: Evolution by Gene Duplication. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-86659-3_21

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