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The main tree shows a parsimony reconstruction using unordered character states, where branch colour indicates reconstructed state. Likelihood values for the numbered nodes are shown (inset). Our results suggest that the ossified patella evolved once in Metatheria, with instances of loss and reversion (to a fibrocartilaginous patelloid and back).
