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The muppetologists who excavated these seven fossil species were careful to contextualize them within Sesame Streets now well understood stratigraphy. This, of course, gives us a clear picture of the relative ages of the different fossil species.
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Your answer will be given in the form of a branching tree diagram (phylogenetic tree) that represents the evolutionary (including likely ancestor-descendent) relationships. Be sure to label each node of your diagram with the appropriate letter of each species. You may assume three things in your analysis. 1) Traits of the same type are homologous not analogous structures. 2) Once a trait is lost, it is not re-evolved in descendant lineages. 3) Evolutionary lines might bifurcate, trifurcate, or even lead to a single new species through anangenic change. The stratigraphy given above will allow you to determine which species were older and which were contemporaries of one another. Assume a complete fossil record and create the most parsimonious phylogenetic tree. The key to this exercise lies in differentiating between ancestral and shared-derived traits to hypothesize the evolutionary (phylogenetic) relationships between the fossil species of snuphalupaghi.
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post-orbital bar with no post-orbital closure wet rhinarium all members nocturnal
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C G T A A C A A T A G A T A T A T A G T C C T G G T A G T G C T A T G C G C G
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Use the differences tabulated in the matrix above to construct a rooted tree topology showing the phylogenetic relationships between species A, B, C, & D. Report your topology on the chart below. Use the grid and count back for each nucleotide difference when drawing your lines of ancestry.
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