12/10/2010 14:26
Tinamous and Moa Flock Together: Mitochondrial Genome Sequence Analysis Reveals Losses of Flight among Ratites
MATTHEW J. PHILLIPS1, GILLIAN C. GIBB, ELIZABETH A. CRIMP, AND DAVID PENNY
Syst. Biol. 59(1):90–107, 2010
Abstract.—Ratites are large, flightless birds and...
27/09/2010 21:29
I have decided to handle the website a bit different. Instead of showing all the relationships until the level of species is to difficult. So I will give a "short" overview of all the families and their relations. Each family will be introduced with some additional information and the...
21/07/2010 18:13
I have just put the website online. It now only contains on the known taxa of modern birds.
I will try to work my way through all the taxa, and complete the tree of birds...
21/07/2010 17:31
Dear visitor,
this site is dedicated to the phylogeny of modern birds. Since Darwin wrote his famous On the Origin of Species by Means of Natural Selection, we know that all living things on this planet are related. Before this, people tried to classify the world around them. This has led...
