2013年6月18日 · The first one is the best resolved tree I can get with data available in GenBank and BOLD, for Rallidae, Sarothruridae and Heliornithidae, with Gruidae, Aramidae, Psophiidae and Otididae acting as outgroups. What I used is basically a cox1 data set (this is the gene that is available for the largest number of species), augmented with cytochrome ...

2013年6月18日 · What does the figure caption say? Bayesian time-calibrated phylogeny of Porphyrio using four mitochondrial genes. Node labels denote posterior probability values, while node bars represent the 95% HPD interval for node ages. HPD intervals relating to takahē/moho are coloured. The positions of...

2013年6月18日 · The debate whether Pareudiastes is a valid genus or not is also a neverending story. IOC has never accepted it though Storrs Olson discussed in the 1970s that there are differences between Pareudiastes and Gallinula. Do we know their position in the Rallidae tree?

2013年6月18日 · The rails (Family Rallidae) are the most diverse and widespread group in the Gruiformes. Their extensive fossil history, global geographic distribution, and tendency to rapidly evolve flightless species on islands make them an attractive subject of evolutionary studies, but the rarity of modern museum specimens of so many rail species has ...

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2014年10月28日 · García-R J.C., Gibb G. & Trewick S., 2014. Deep global evolutionary radiation in birds: Diversification and trait evolution in the cosmopolitan bird family Rallidae ...

2019年3月10日 · Yep - why on earth 8? Couldn't they be satisfied with one for a type specimen, and feather samples for DNA for the rest? Gross overkill. A sample size of one isn't a valid basis for any subsequent statistical analysis or argument, and certainly not for any proposal to establish any conservation...

2013年6月18日 · I'm only missing Canirallus In case you missed it, Canirallus was included in Boast et al (2019) and positioned as sister to a larger group including...

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2017年1月31日 · This bird landed in our ship on Saturday 28th, north of the Amazon River mouth (at high seas). We believe it belongs to the Rallidae family. We also believe it wasn't migrating but got disoriented. It's almost the same size of a crow. We are feeding it some chicken eggs from time to time, and we...