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. 2009 Oct 21;277(1680):345–351. doi: 10.1098/rspb.2009.1412

Figure 3.

Figure 3.

Simplified family tree of mammals, reptiles and birds. Synapsids are extinct mammal-like reptiles with a characteristic hole in the skull. Plus represents presence and minus represents absence of the exon encoding the 59aa in the cytoplasmic tail of apoER2.