Mesozoic retroposons reveal parrots as the closest living relatives of passerine birds

The relationships of passerines (such as the well-studied zebra finch) with non-passerine birds is one of the great enigmas of avian phylogenetic research, because decades of extensive morphological and molecular studies yielded highly inconsistent results between and within data sets. Here we show...

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Main Authors: Suh, Alexander, Paus, Martin, Kiefmann, Martin, Churakov, Gennady, Franke, Franziska Anni, Brosius, Jürgen, Kriegs, Jan Ole, Schmitz, Jürgen
Format: Artigo
Language:Inglês
Published: Nature Pub. Group 2011
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Online Access:https://ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3265382/
https://ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/21863010
https://ncbi.nlm.nih.govhttp://dx.doi.org/10.1038/ncomms1448
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