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

Nature

Volumn 526, Issue 7574, 2015, Pages 569-573

  Prum, Richard O ^a   Berv, Jacob S ^b   Dornburg, Alex ^a,c   Field, Daniel J ^a   Townsend, Jeffrey P ^a   Lemmon, Emily Moriarty ^d   Lemmon, Alan R ^d  

^a YALE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b Fuller Evolutionary Biology Program   (United States)

^c NORTH CAROLINA MUSEUM OF NATURAL SCIENCES   (United States)

^d FLORIDA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DNA;

BAYESIAN ANALYSIS; BIRD; CRETACEOUS-PALEOGENE BOUNDARY; CROCODILIAN; DINOSAUR; DNA; EVOLUTIONARY THEORY; GENETIC ANALYSIS; GENOMICS; MASS EXTINCTION; MAXIMUM LIKELIHOOD ANALYSIS; PHYLOGENY;

ARTICLE; BAYES THEOREM; BIRD; BUSTARD; CAPRIMULGIFORM; CLADISTICS; CONTROLLED STUDY; CRANE (BIRD); CROCODILIAN; CUCKOOS; DNA SEQUENCE; GENE LOCUS; HUMMINGBIRD; HYBRID; MAXIMUM LIKELIHOOD METHOD; MESITE; MOLECULAR PHYLOGENY; MONOPHYLY; NEXT GENERATION SEQUENCING; NIGHTJAR; NONHUMAN; PHYLOGENETIC TREE; PIGEON; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SANDGROUSE; SHOREBIRD; SWIFT; TURACO; WATERBIRD; ANIMAL; CLASSIFICATION; GENETICS; GENOMICS; HIGH THROUGHPUT SEQUENCING; MOLECULAR EVOLUTION; PALEONTOLOGY; PHYLOGENY; SPECIES EXTINCTION; STATISTICAL MODEL;

AVES; CAPRIMULGIDAE; CAPRIMULGIFORMES; COLUMBA; CROCODYLIDAE (ALL CROCODILES); CUCULIDAE; DINOSAURIA; GRUIDAE; MESITES; OPISTHOCOMIDAE; OPISTHOCOMUS HOAZIN; OTIDIDAE; PTEROCLIDIDAE; TROCHILIDAE;

ALLIGATORS AND CROCODILES; ANIMALS; BAYES THEOREM; BIRDS; EVOLUTION, MOLECULAR; EXTINCTION, BIOLOGICAL; GENOMICS; HIGH-THROUGHPUT NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCING; LIKELIHOOD FUNCTIONS; PALEONTOLOGY; PHYLOGENY; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS, DNA;

EID: 84944911288     PISSN: 00280836     EISSN: 14764687     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/nature15697     Document Type: Article

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