Interesting Andrew. I did notice from the families circle that their
analysis seemed to confirm Hackett et al. (2008), rather than Pacheco et al
(2011) - but I guess from what you say, and the time of which they started
the study, that they may have used the same data as Hackett, rather than
confirming it. I'd really like to see a version with the individual
species represented, but I guess such an image might not exist.
Jeremy
On Fri, Nov 2, 2012 at 2:37 PM, Andrew Hobbs <> wrote:
> 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<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<http://www.utas.edu.au/tools/recent-news/news/first-family-tree-created-for-all-living-bird-species>
>>
>> Regards,
>>
>> Jeremy
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