Publication Date:
2015-09-26
Description:
Mitchell et al. argue that divergence-time estimates for our avian phylogeny were too young because of an "inappropriate" maximum age constraint for the most recent common ancestor of modern birds and that, as a result, most modern bird orders diverged before the Cretaceous-Paleogene mass extinction event 66 million years ago instead of after. However, their interpretations of the fossil record and timetrees are incorrect.〈br /〉〈span class="detail_caption"〉Notes: 〈/span〉Cracraft, Joel -- Houde, Peter -- Ho, Simon Y W -- Mindell, David P -- Fjeldsa, Jon -- Lindow, Bent -- Edwards, Scott V -- Rahbek, Carsten -- Mirarab, Siavash -- Warnow, Tandy -- Gilbert, M Thomas P -- Zhang, Guojie -- Braun, Edward L -- Jarvis, Erich D -- Howard Hughes Medical Institute/ -- New York, N.Y. -- Science. 2015 Sep 25;349(6255):1460. doi: 10.1126/science.aab1578.〈br /〉〈span class="detail_caption"〉Author address: 〈/span〉Department of Ornithology, American Museum of Natural History, New York, NY 10024, USA. jlc@amnh.org ebraun68@ufl.edu jarvis@neuro.duke.edu. ; Department of Biology, New Mexico State University, Las Cruces, NM 88003, USA. ; School of Biological Sciences, University of Sydney, Sydney, New South Wales 2006, Australia. ; Department of Biochemistry and Biophysics, University of California, San Francisco, CA 94158, USA. ; Center for Macroecology, Evolution and Climate, Natural History Museum of Denmark, University of Copenhagen, Universitetsparken 15, DK-2100 Copenhagen O, Denmark. ; Centre for GeoGenetics, Natural History Museum of Denmark, University of Copenhagen, Oster Voldgade 5-7, 1350 Copenhagen, Denmark. ; Department of Organismic and Evolutionary Biology and Museum of Comparative Zoology, Harvard University, Cambridge, MA 02138, USA. ; Center for Macroecology, Evolution and Climate, Natural History Museum of Denmark, University of Copenhagen, Universitetsparken 15, DK-2100 Copenhagen O, Denmark. Department of Life Sciences, Imperial College London, Silwood Park Campus, Ascot SL5 7PY, UK. ; Department of Computer Science, The University of Texas at Austin, Austin, TX 78712, USA. ; Department of Computer Science, The University of Texas at Austin, Austin, TX 78712, USA. Departments of Bioengineering and Computer Science, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, Urbana, IL 61801, USA. ; Centre for GeoGenetics, Natural History Museum of Denmark, University of Copenhagen, Oster Voldgade 5-7, 1350 Copenhagen, Denmark. Trace and Environmental DNA Laboratory Department of Environment and Agriculture, Curtin University, Perth, Western Australia 6102, Australia. ; China National GeneBank, BGI-Shenzhen, Shenzhen 518083, China. Centre for Social Evolution, Department of Biology, Universitetsparken 15, University of Copenhagen, DK-2100 Copenhagen, Denmark. ; Department of Biology and Genetics Institute, University of Florida, Gainesville, FL 32611, USA. jlc@amnh.org ebraun68@ufl.edu jarvis@neuro.duke.edu. ; Department of Neurobiology, Duke University Medical Center, Durham, NC 27710, USA. Howard Hughes Medical Institute, Chevy Chase, MD 20815, USA. jlc@amnh.org ebraun68@ufl.edu jarvis@neuro.duke.edu.〈br /〉〈span class="detail_caption"〉Record origin:〈/span〉 〈a href="http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/26404820" target="_blank"〉PubMed〈/a〉
Keywords:
Animals
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Birds/*genetics
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*Genome
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*Phylogeny
Print ISSN:
0036-8075
Electronic ISSN:
1095-9203
Topics:
Biology
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Chemistry and Pharmacology
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Computer Science
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Medicine
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Natural Sciences in General
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Physics
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