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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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| Formato: | Online Artículo Texto |
| Lenguaje: | English |
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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 |