Publication Date:
2017-02-01
Description:
Genetic basis of convergent evolution in pandas Wild giant panda. Despite being classified as carnivores, giant pandas and red pandas, which separately evolved from meat-eating ancestors and diverged from each other around 47.5 million years ago, subsist almost entirely on bamboo—a phenomenon termed phenotypic convergence, which is observed in distantly...
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Print ISSN:
0027-8424
Electronic ISSN:
1091-6490
Topics:
Biology
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Medicine
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Natural Sciences in General