DNA from extinct giant lemurs links archaeolemurids to extant indriids

Ludovic Orlando¹ , Sébastien Calvignac¹ , Céline Schnebelen¹ , Christophe J Douady² , Laurie R Godfrey³ and Catherine Hänni¹

¹Paléogénétique et Evolution Moléculaire, Université de Lyon, Institut de Génomique Fonctionnelle de Lyon, Institut Fédératif Biosciences Gerland Lyon Sud, Université Lyon 1, CNRS, INRA, Ecole Normale Supérieure de Lyon, 46 allée d'Italie, 69364 Lyon Cédex 07, France

²CNRS UMR 5023, Laboratoire d'Ecologie des Hydrosystèmes Fluviaux, Université Claude Bernard Lyon 1, 6 rue R. Dubois, Bat. Darwin-C, F-69622 Villeurbanne Cédex, France

³Department of Anthropology, 240 Hicks Way, University of Massachusetts, Amherst, MA 01003, USA

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BMC Evolutionary Biology 2008, 8:121doi:10.1186/1471-2148-8-121


Published:	28 April 2008

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Table S1. Fragment length, primer sequences and T annealing of the PCR fragments targeted under this study.

Table S2. Number of independent PCR amplifications and clones sequenced per fragment and per sample.

Table S3. p-values of AU and KH tests for the clustering of Archaeolemur (and Hadropithecus) within different taxa (indriids, lemurids, cheirogaleids, lepilemurids, lorisiformes or aye-aye, respectively) or outside indriids (no indriids).

Table S4. Phylogenetic supports for three alternative relationships among Indrioidea.

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