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Intractable Tangles in the Bird Family Tree.

PLoS biology - 1 Aug 2015

Roberts Roland G

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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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PMID: 26284616
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pbio.1002225
PMCID: PMC4540571

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