Genomic support for a moa-tinamou clade and adaptive morphological convergence in flightless ratites

Molecular Biology and Evolution

Volumn 31, Issue 7, 2014, Pages 1686-1696

  Baker, Allan J ^a,b   Haddrath, Oliver ^a   Mcpherson, John D ^c   Cloutier, Alison ^b  

^a DEPARTMENT OF NATURAL HISTORY   (Canada)

^b UNIVERSITY OF TORONTO   (Canada)

^c ONTARIO INSTITUTE FOR CANCER RESEARCH   (Canada)

Author keywords

ancient DNA; CR1 retroposon insertions; little bush moa; morphological convergence; phylogenomics; ratite paraphyly

Indexed keywords

CELL NUCLEUS DNA;

ANOMALOPTERYX DIDIFORMIS; ARTICLE; ARTIFACT; CLADISTICS; DROMAIUS NOVAEHOLLANDIAE; EVOLUTIONARY ADAPTATION; GENE INSERTION; GENETIC MODEL; HIGH THROUGHPUT SEQUENCING; MONOPHYLY; MORPHOLOGICAL ADAPTATION; MORPHOLOGICAL TRAIT; NONHUMAN; NOTHOPROCTA PERDICARIA; OSTRICH; PARAPHYLY; PHYLOGENOMICS; PHYLOGENY; RATITE; RETROPOSON; ADAPTATION; ANATOMY AND HISTOLOGY; ANIMAL; BAYES THEOREM; BIOLOGICAL MODEL; BIRD; CLASSIFICATION; DNA SEQUENCE; GENETICS; GENOME; MOLECULAR EVOLUTION; PHYSIOLOGY; STATISTICAL MODEL;

ADAPTATION, PHYSIOLOGICAL; ANIMALS; BAYES THEOREM; EVOLUTION, MOLECULAR; GENOME; LIKELIHOOD FUNCTIONS; MODELS, GENETIC; PALAEOGNATHAE; PHYLOGENY; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS, DNA;

EID: 84903745828     PISSN: 07374038     EISSN: 15371719     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/molbev/msu153     Document Type: Article

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