Monophyletic groups within 'higher land birds' - comparison of morphological and molecular data
By Gerald Mayr, A. Manegold, U. Johansson. 2003
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The relationships within the ‘higher land birds’ and putatively related taxa are analysed in a study using 89 morphological characters and DNA sequences of three nuclear, protein-coding genes, c-myc, RAG-1, and myoglobin intron II. Separate analyses of the different data sets and a ‘total evidence’ analysis in which the data sets of the morphological and molecular analyses were combined are compared. All three analyses support the hitherto disputed sister group relationship between Pici (Ramphastidae, Indicatoridae and Picidae) and Galbulae (Galbulidae and Bucconidae). Previously unrecognized osteological synapomorphies of this clade are presented. All analyses further resulted in monophyly of the taxon [Aegothelidae + (Apodidae/Hemiprocnidae + Trochilidae)]. Analysis of the morphological data and of the combined data set also supported monophyly of the taxon [Strigiformes + (Falconidae + Accipitridae)]. The morphological data further support monophyly of the taxon (Upupidae + Bucerotidae). Other placements in the three analyses received either no or only weak bootstrap support.
Subfields: Ecology, Genetics, Paleontology
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- Metaves, Mirandornithes, Strisores and other novelties – a critical review of the higher‐level phylogeny of neornithine birds (2010, background): “…affinities of the cuckoo-roller were, however, already questioned by Mayr (1998), and these are also not supported by molecular analyses (Mayr et al. 2003; Ericson et al. 2006; Hackett et al. 2008; Mayr 2008c; contra Sibley and Ahlquist 1990; Cracraft et al. 2004; Livezey and Zusi 2007).”