How does new information about the little mountain opossum Dromiciops help us understand past patterns of marsupial diversification?

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Dromiciops lives in South America, yet both morphological and molecular data show it to be the sister taxon to the monophyletic grouping of the Australian marsupials. This supports the hypothesis that the Australian marsupials came from a South American stock and then migrated from there across Antarctica to Australia.

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