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Saga of the Extinct Giant Kangaroos: Ancient DNA and Fossils Combined to Reveal the Evolutionary History of Macropods Saga of the extinct giant kangaroos: ancient DNA and fossils combined to reveal the evolutionary history of macropods. EVOLUTION 2018 – 19/08/2018 Montpellier 2018 © II Joint Congress on Evolutionary Biology 2018. All rights reserved - Any reproduction even in part is prohibited. Manuela Cascini Matthew J. Phillips ([email protected]) 2018 © II Joint Congress on Evolutionary Biology 2018. All rights reserved - Any reproduction even in part is prohibited. 2018 © 48th European Contact Lens Society Of Ophthalmologists. All rights reserved - Any reproduction even in part is prohibited] . 2018 © II Joint Congress on Evolutionary Biology 2018. All rights reserved - Any reproduction even in part is prohibited] . 2018 © II Joint Congress on Evolutionary Biology 2018. 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No agreement on their phylogenetic relationships Hypsiprymnodon moschatus Potoroidae Lagostrophus fasciatus 3 1 Dorcopsini 2 4 Thylogale billardierii Simosthenurus occidentalis Dendrolagus Macropodinae Petrogale Setonix brachyurus 2018 © II Joint Congress on EvolutionaryOnychogalea Biology 2018. All rightsunguifera reserved - Any reproduction even in part is prohibited. 5 Protemnodon anak Lagorchestes Wallabia bicolor Macropus 6 1. Prideaux 2004, 2. Prideaux and Warburton 2010; Llamas et al. 2015, 3. Flannery 1983, 1989, Murray 1995) and Protemnodon (filled arrows: 4. Flannery 1989, 5. Prideaux and2018 Warburton © II Joint Congress 2010, on Evolutionary 6. Raven Biology 2018. and All rights Gregory, reserved - Any 1946). reproduction even in part is prohibited. 2018 © 48th European Contact Lens Society Of Ophthalmologists. All rights reserved - Any reproduction even in part is prohibited] . 2018 © II Joint Congress on Evolutionary Biology 2018. 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Molecular (15,253 bp, ancient + modern mtDNA) Phalanger interpositus Trichosurus vulpecula Pseudocheirus peregrinus 100/87 Lagostrophus fasciatus Simosthenurus occidentalis† Protemnodonanak † Macropus Wallabia bicolor Onychogalea unguifera Lagorchestes Setonix brachyurus Dendrolagus Petrogale xanthopus Macropodinae Petrogale brachyotis Thylogale billardierii Dorcopsulus vanheurni 2018 © II Joint Congress on Evolutionary Biology 2018.Dorcopsulus All rights reservedhageni - Any reproduction even in part is prohibited. Aepyprymnus rufescens Bettongia lesueur Potoroidae Bettongia penicillata Potorous longipes Potorous tridactylus Hypsyprimnodon moschatus Node values are Bayesian posterior probabilities/IQ-TREE bootstrap values. 2018 © II Joint Congress on Evolutionary Biology 2018. All rights reserved - Any reproduction even in part is prohibited. 2018 © 48th European Contact Lens Society Of Ophthalmologists. 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