Fig. 6: Morphological evolution of vertebrates. | Nature Ecology & Evolution

Fig. 6: Morphological evolution of vertebrates.

From: Hagfish genome elucidates vertebrate whole-genome duplication events and their evolutionary consequences

Fig. 6

a,b, Morphological disparity across vertebrates. Non-metric ordinations are presented, highlighting the morphological variance among (a) taxonomic lineages of extant and extinct vertebrates and (b) the descendants of 3 whole-genome duplication events. Convex hulls have been fitted around groups. The underlying tree was derived from a consensus of relationships from the literature.

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