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From: Tracing whale myoglobin evolution by resurrecting ancient proteins

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Molecular phylogenic tree of Mbs from whales, land animal relatives, and inferred ancestors. The presented tree is a part of the entire tree consisted of Hbs, Mbs, and other globins (Fig. S2a). Green, light blue, blue, and dark blue circles indicate the positions of aMbWp (land ancestor), aMbWb’ (polyphyly whale ancestor), aMbWb (monophyly whale ancestor), and extant swMb. The illustrations of animals are not covered by the CC BY license. Credit to Satoshi Kawasaki. All rights reserved, used with permission.

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