PHYLOGENY AND EVOLUTION OF THE RATITE BIRDS

By J. Cracraft. 2008

106 citations recorded by the source corpus.

Subfields: Ecology, Ecology, Evolution, Behavior and Systematics, Parasitology

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In Ecology

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2. T. Worthy
3. P. Currie
4. Gerald Mayr

In Ecology, Evolution, Behavior and Systematics

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2. T. Worthy
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2. T. Worthy
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Citations in the corpus

• An integrative phylogenetic and extrapolatory approach to the reconstruction of dromaeosaur (Theropoda: Eumaniraptora) shoulder musculature (2006, background): “It has been proposed that ratites are not a primitive relative of neognaths, but are instead paedomorphic (de Beer, 1956; Cracraft, 1974).”
• Metaves, Mirandornithes, Strisores and other novelties – a critical review of the higher‐level phylogeny of neornithine birds (2010, background): “The skull of Struthionidae, Rheidae and Casuariidae exhibits large supraorbital processes, but this feature evolved convergently in other neornithine birds and shows unambiguous homoplasy in core-Gruiformes.”
• Twenty-first century advances in knowledge of the biology of moa (Aves: Dinornithiformes): a new morphological analysis and moa diagnoses revised (2012, background): “Kiwi ( Apteryx ) were found to be sister to moa (six genera coded) and together were the sister to remaining ratites, as morphological analyses have found previously (Cracraft 1974 ; Lee et al.”