A novel unbiased test for molecular convergent evolution and discoveries in echolocating, aquatic and high-altitude mammals
A. Marcovitz, Y. Turakhia, M. Gloudemans, B. A. Braun, H. I. Chen, G. Bejerano
The paper introduces a novel test to identify molecular convergent evolution in coding genes across phenotypically convergent lineages, revealing 75 novel convergences in echolocating, aquatic, and high-altitude mammals.
bioRxiv · Jul 31, 2017Evolutionary Biology