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Figure 1. Optimal MP topologies, all data. Strict (A) and Adams (B) consensuses of 4 trees (49750 steps) resulting from combined morphology-DNA-indel dataset, all changes treated equally. Numbers indicate bootstrap support values (only reported above 50); asterisks indicate support of 100. Daggers indicate extinct taxa.

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Figure 2.Optimal MP topologies, third positions removed. Strict consensus of 4 trees (27858 steps) resulting from combined morphology-DNA-indel dataset, excluding third positions from protein-coding genes. Numbers indicate bootstrap support values (only reported above 50); asterisks indicate support of 100. Daggers indicate extinct taxa.

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Figure 3.Bayesian tree. Majority rule consensus of 15500 trees (1.6 million generations, sampled every 100, first 500 discarded as "burn-in") generated by MrBayes 3.1 [33]. Numbers indicate Bayesian posterior probability values; asterisks indicate support of 100. Daggers indicate extinct taxa.

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Figure 4.Optimal MP topologies for Recent taxa alone. The analysis of morphology-DNA-indels (A) yields a single tree of 49588 steps with the placental root within Afrotheria. Using DNA-indels alone (B) yields two trees at 48530 steps with placental root at murid rodents. Numbers indicate bootstrap support values (only reported above 50); asterisks indicate support of 100.

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