Complete bird phylogenetic tree

[Andrew Hobbs <>]

I haven't read the full paper, only the abstract.  There is some 
controversy as to the accuracy of the tree.  Apparently they put the 
tree together using currently known sequences.  However a lot of those 
sequences are only mitochondrial sequences which are rather limited 
(partly simply due to the size of the mitochondrial genome).  That 
limitation means that for a lot of the linkages the evidence is somewhat 
flimsy.  In addition for some 30% of bird species there is no DNA 
sequence data of any sort.   In that case they relied on published 
morphological and paleontological data and we know how reliable that is.
Cheers

Andrew

On 2/11/2012 8:47 AM, Tony Lawson wrote:
> You can see the tree (circle?) at:
> http://25.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_mcs62sJxRl1rx70ego1_1280.gif
>
> -----Original Message----- From: Jeremy O'Wheel
> Sent: Friday, November 02, 2012 11:03 AM
> To: birding-aus
> Subject: [Birding-Aus] Complete bird phylogenetic tree
>
> Apparently this week's Nature has published a complete evolutionary 
> family
> tree of all extant species of birds in the world.  I couldn't find the
> article on the website, but here is a press release from the 
> University of
> Tasmania:
>
>
> http://www.utas.edu.au/tools/recent-news/news/first-family-tree-created-for-all-living-bird-species 
>
> Regards,
>
> Jeremy
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