Tinamous and moa flock together: Mitochondrial genome sequence analysis reveals independent losses of flight among ratites

Systematic Biology

Volumn 59, Issue 1, 2010, Pages 90-107

  Phillips, Matthew J ^a   Gibb, Gillian C ^b   Crimp, Elizabeth A ^b   Penny, David ^b  

^a AUSTRALIAN NATIONAL UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

^b MASSEY UNIVERSITY   (New Zealand)

Author keywords

Base composition; Flightless; Gondwana; Mitochondrial genome; Palaeognathae; Phylogeny; Ratites

Indexed keywords

MITOCHONDRIAL DNA;

ANIMAL; ARTICLE; BAYES THEOREM; BIOLOGICAL MODEL; BIRD; DNA BASE COMPOSITION; DNA SEQUENCE; EVOLUTION; FLYING; GENETICS; MOLECULAR EVOLUTION; MOLECULAR GENETICS; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PHYLOGENY; STATISTICAL MODEL;

ANIMALS; BASE COMPOSITION; BASE SEQUENCE; BAYES THEOREM; DNA, MITOCHONDRIAL; EVOLUTION; EVOLUTION, MOLECULAR; FLIGHT, ANIMAL; LIKELIHOOD FUNCTIONS; MODELS, GENETIC; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; PALAEOGNATHAE; PHYLOGENY; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS, DNA; BIOLOGICAL EVOLUTION;

AVES; CASUARIIDAE; PALAEOGNATHAE; RHEA; RHEIFORMES; STRUTHIONIFORMES; TINAMIFORMES;

EID: 72049124323     PISSN: 10635157     EISSN: 1076836X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/sysbio/syp079     Document Type: Article

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