Neoaves is a living-bird navigation clade whose earliest branches remain a hard-polytomy hypothesis in the reviewed phylogenomic signal; the route must not be read as a resolved ancestor sequence or a fossil divergence date.
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References / paperThe phylogenomic forest of bird trees contains a hard polytomy at the root of Neoaves
Suh, A.
Year2016
Source rolesystematic-review
DOI / ID10.1111/zsc.12213
Fitness and scope
topology · methods
Systematic comparison of phylogenomic signal across early neoavian branches, emphasizing incompatible gene trees and a hard-polytomy interpretation.