Clade of birds
Novaeratitae |
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Portrait of a southern cassowary (Casuarius casuarius) |
Scientific classification |
Domain: | Eukaryota |
Kingdom: | Animalia |
Phylum: | Chordata |
Class: | Aves |
Infraclass: | Palaeognathae |
Clade: | Novaeratitae Yuri et al., 2013 |
Orders |
- Casuariiformes
- †Aepyornithiformes
- Apterygiformes
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Novaeratitae is a proposed clade that was originally defined to contain the recent common ancestors of the orders Casuariiformes (emus and cassowaries) and Apterygiformes (kiwis).[1][2] Recently it has been determined that the elephant birds of the extinct order Aepyornithiformes were the closest relatives of the kiwis, and therefore are part of this group.[3] The implication is that ratites had lost flight independently in each group, as the elephant birds are the only novaeratites found outside Oceania.[3] This clade has been contested by other studies, which find the relationships between the four main clades of non-ostrich palaeognaths (moa+tinamou, kiwi+elephant bird, rheas, and emus+cassowaries) to be an unresolved polytomy, with only slightly more genetic support for Novaeritiae over alternative proposals.[4]
References
- ^ Hackett, S.J. et al. (2008) A Phylogenomic Study of Birds Reveals Their Evolutionary History. Science, 320, 1763.
- ^ Yuri, T. (2013) Parsimony and model-based analyses of indels in avian nuclear genes reveal congruent and incongruent phylogenetic signals. Biology, 2:419–44.
- ^ a b Mitchell, K. J.; Llamas, B.; Soubrier, J.; Rawlence, N. J.; Worthy, T. H.; Wood, J.; Lee, M. S. Y.; Cooper, A. (2014-05-23). "Ancient DNA reveals elephant birds and kiwi are sister taxa and clarifies ratite bird evolution". Science. 344 (6186): 898–900. Bibcode:2014Sci...344..898M. doi:10.1126/science.1251981. hdl:2328/35953. PMID 24855267. S2CID 206555952.
- ^ Takezaki, Naoko (2023-06-01). Holland, Barbara (ed.). "Effect of Different Types of Sequence Data on Palaeognath Phylogeny". Genome Biology and Evolution. 15 (6). doi:10.1093/gbe/evad092. ISSN 1759-6653. PMC 10262969. PMID 37227001.
Palaeognath genera
- Kingdom: Animalia
- Phylum: Chordata
- Class: Aves
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