Intractable Tangles in the Bird Family Tree

Rapid sequential speciation events can outpace the fixation of genetic variants, resulting in a family tree that lacks clear branching patterns. A new study of bird genomes reveals such an explosive super-radiation that may coincide with the mass extinction at the end of the Cretaceous period.

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Autor principal: Roberts, Roland G.
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Public Library of Science 2015
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4540571/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/26284616
http://dx.doi.org/10.1371/journal.pbio.1002225
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spelling pubmed-45405712015-08-24 Intractable Tangles in the Bird Family Tree Roberts, Roland G. PLoS Biol Synopsis Rapid sequential speciation events can outpace the fixation of genetic variants, resulting in a family tree that lacks clear branching patterns. A new study of bird genomes reveals such an explosive super-radiation that may coincide with the mass extinction at the end of the Cretaceous period. Public Library of Science 2015-08-18 /pmc/articles/PMC4540571/ /pubmed/26284616 http://dx.doi.org/10.1371/journal.pbio.1002225 Text en © 2015 Roland G. Roberts http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/ This is an open-access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original author and source are properly credited.
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url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4540571/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/26284616
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