Ancient DNA reveals elephant birds and kiwi are sister taxa and clarifies ratite bird evolution

Science

Volumn 344, Issue 6186, 2014, Pages 898-900

  Mitchell, Kieren J ^a   Llamas, Bastien ^a   Soubrier, Julien ^a   Rawlence, Nicolas J ^a   Worthy, Trevor H ^b   Wood, Jamie ^c   Lee, Michael S Y ^a,d   Cooper, Alan ^a,e  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ADELAIDE   (Australia)

^b FLINDERS UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

^c LANDCARE RESEARCH   (New Zealand)

^d SOUTH AUSTRALIAN MUSEUM   (Australia)

^e UNIVERSITY OF OTAGO   (New Zealand)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BIRD; CRETACEOUS; DNA FINGERPRINTING; EXTINCTION; FLIGHTLESSNESS; GENOME; HERBIVORY; PHYLOGENETICS; POPULATION GENETICS; SPECIES OCCURRENCE; VICARIANCE;

AEPYORNIS; AEPYORNITHIDAE; AFRICA; ARTICLE; BINOCULAR CONVERGENCE; BIOGEOGRAPHY; BIRD; CRETACEOUS; DINOSAUR; GENE LOCUS; GIGANTISM; HERBIVORY; HIGH THROUGHPUT SEQUENCING; KIWI BIRD; MADAGASCAR; MITOCHONDRIAL GENOME; MULLERORNIS; NONHUMAN; OSTRICH; PHYLOGENY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RATITE; SPECIES DIFFERENTIATION; TAXON; VICARIANCE; ANIMAL; CLASSIFICATION; EVOLUTION; FLYING; FOSSIL; GENETICS; MOLECULAR GENETICS; NEW ZEALAND; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE;

AFRICA; MADAGASCAR; NEW ZEALAND;

DNA;

ANIMALS; BASE SEQUENCE; BIOLOGICAL EVOLUTION; DNA; FLIGHT, ANIMAL; FOSSILS; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; NEW ZEALAND; PALAEOGNATHAE; PHYLOGENY; STRUTHIONIFORMES;

EID: 84901236518     PISSN: 00368075     EISSN: 10959203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1126/science.1251981     Document Type: Article

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