A comprehensive phylogeny of birds (Aves) using targeted next-generation DNA sequencing

Richard O. Prum (), Jacob S. Berv (), Alex Dornburg, Daniel J. Field, Jeffrey P. Townsend, Emily Moriarty Lemmon and Alan R. Lemmon
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Richard O. Prum: Yale University
Jacob S. Berv: Fuller Evolutionary Biology Program, Cornell University, and Cornell Laboratory of Ornithology
Alex Dornburg: Yale University
Daniel J. Field: Peabody Museum of Natural History, Yale University
Jeffrey P. Townsend: Yale University
Emily Moriarty Lemmon: Florida State University
Alan R. Lemmon: Florida State University

Nature, 2015, vol. 526, issue 7574, 569-573

Abstract: A phylogeny of birds is presented from targeted genomic sequencing of 198 species of living birds representing all major avian lineages; the results find five major clades forming successive sister taxa to the rest of Neoaves and do not support the recently proposed Neoavian clades of Columbea and Passerea.

Date: 2015
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