• DOI:10.1126/science.1157704
Corpus ID: 6472805

A Phylogenomic Study of Birds Reveals Their Evolutionary History

@article{Hackett2008APS,
  title={A Phylogenomic Study of Birds Reveals Their Evolutionary History},
  author={S. Hackett and R. Kimball and S. Reddy and R. Bowie and E. Braun and M. J. Braun and Jena L. Chojnowski and W. A. Cox and Kin-Lan Han and J. Harshman and Christopher J. Huddleston and Ben D. Marks and Kathleen J. Miglia and W. Moore and F. H. Sheldon and D. Steadman and C. Witt and T. Yuri},
  journal={Science},
  year={2008},
  volume={320},
  pages={1763 - 1768}
}

S. Hackett, R. Kimball, +15 authors T. Yuri

Published 2008

Medicine, Biology

Science

Deep avian evolutionary relationships have been difficult to resolve as a result of a putative explosive radiation. Our study examined ∼32 kilobases of aligned nuclear DNA sequences from 19 independent loci for 169 species, representing all major extant groups, and recovered a robust phylogeny from a genome-wide signal supported by multiple analytical methods. We documented well-supported, previously unrecognized interordinal relationships (such as a sister relationship between passerines and… CONTINUE READING

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