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Phylogenetic Studies On Didelphid Marsupials Ii. Nonmolecular Data And New Irbp Sequences: Separate And Combined Analyses Of Didelphine Relationships With Denser Taxon Sampling

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VOSS, ROBERT S., JANSA, SHARON A. (2003): Phylogenetic Studies On Didelphid Marsupials Ii. Nonmolecular Data And New Irbp Sequences: Separate And Combined Analyses Of Didelphine Relationships With Denser Taxon Sampling. Bulletin of the American Museum of Natural History 2003 (276): 1-82, DOI: 10.1206/0003-0090(2003)276<0001:PSODMI>2.0.CO;2, URL: http://www.bioone.org/doi/abs/10.1206/0003-0090%282003%29276%3C0001%3APSODMI%3E2.0.CO%3B2

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