Evolutionary Tree of Ancestral Red Blood Cell Sizes of Tetrapods (IMAGE)

University of Utah

Evolutionary Tree of Ancestral Red Blood Cell Sizes of Tetrapods

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Cynodonts and other extinct mammal predecessors exhibited RBC sizes similar to modern day mammals by the Permian-Triassic transition.

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Adam Huttenlocker

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