fascinating molecular study on Cockatoos published in past month

["Cas Liber" <>]

Did anyone mention this? A manuscript here:
http://researchrepository.murdoch.edu.au/4397/

of a recent study published

http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S1055790311001503

on detailed genetic study of cockatoos. Interesting is the cladogram, with
Palm Cockatoo as early offshoot within the Cacatuinae (!), and gang gang and
galah as sister taxa - the authors suggest that placing the last two in a
single genus may be warranted (and there's an interesting name change, Gang
Gang at 1803 is older than Galah (1817), but Eolophus (1817) predates
Callocephalon (1837)...so I guess we'd get Eolophus fimbriatus...?)
Cockatiel is basal to all other taxa.

Cas

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