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SUBMITTER: Suh A
PROVIDER: S-EPMC3265382 | biostudies-literature | 2011
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
Suh Alexander A Paus Martin M Kiefmann Martin M Churakov Gennady G Franke Franziska Anni FA Brosius Jürgen J Kriegs Jan Ole JO Schmitz Jürgen J
Nature communications 20110823
The relationships of passerines (such as the well-studied zebra finch) with non-passerine birds is one of the great enigmas of avian phylogenetic research, because decades of extensive morphological and molecular studies yielded highly inconsistent results between and within data sets. Here we show the first application of the virtually homoplasy-free retroposon insertions to this controversy. Our study examined ~200,000 retroposon-containing loci from various avian genomes and retrieved 51 mark ...[more]