Presumably, due to a rapid early diversification, major parts of the higher-level phylogeny of
birds are still resolved controversially in different analyses or are considered unresolvable …

Birds are the most diverse tetrapod class, with about 10,000 extant species that represent a
remarkable evolutionary radiation in which most taxa arose during a short period of time …

Evolutionary relationships among birds in Neoaves, the clade comprising the vast majority of
avian diversity, have vexed systematists due to the ancient, rapid radiation of numerous …

In the 14 years since the first higher-level bird phylogenies based on DNA sequence data,
avian phylogenetics has witnessed the advent and maturation of the genomics era, the …

Deep avian evolutionary relationships have been difficult to resolve as a result of a putative
explosive radiation. Our study examined∼ 32 kilobases of aligned nuclear DNA sequences …

Abstract Knowledge of avian phylogeny is prerequisite to understanding the circumstances
and timing of the di‐versification of birds and the evolution of morphological, behavioral, and …

We report three developments toward resolving the challenge of the apparent basal
polytomy of neoavian birds. First, we describe improved conditional down-weighting …

Although reconstruction of the phylogeny of living birds has progressed tremendously in the
last decade, the evolutionary history of Neoaves—a clade that encompasses nearly all living …

Reconstructing relationships among extant birds (Neornithes) has been one of the most
difficult problems in phylogenetics, and, despite intensive effort, the avian tree of life remains …

Although massively parallel sequencing has facilitated large-scale DNA sequencing,
comparisons among distantly related species rely upon small portions of the genome that …