Response to Comment on “Whole-genome analyses resolve early branches in the tree of life of modern birds”

Joel Cracraft; Peter Houde; Simon Y W Ho; David P. Mindell; Jon Fjeldså; Bent Erik Kramer Lindow; Scott V. Edwards; Carsten Rahbek; Siavash Mirarab; Tandy Warnow; M Thomas P Gilbert; Guojie Zhang; Edward L. Braun; Erich D. Jarvis

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Response to Comment on “Whole-genome analyses resolve early branches in the tree of life of modern birds”

Joel Cracraft, Peter Houde, Simon Y W Ho, David P. Mindell, Jon Fjeldså, Bent Erik Kramer Lindow, Scott V. Edwards, Carsten Rahbek, Siavash Mirarab, Tandy Warnow, M Thomas P Gilbert, Guojie Zhang, Edward L. Braun, Erich D. Jarvis

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Mitchell et al. argue that divergence-time estimates for our avian phylogeny were too young because of an "inappropriate" maximum age constraint for the most recent common ancestor of modern birds and that, as a result, most modern bird orders diverged before the Cretaceous-Paleogene mass extinction event 66 million years ago instead of after. However, their interpretations of the fossil record and timetrees are incorrect.

Original language	English
Journal	Science
Volume	349
Issue number	6255
Pages (from-to)	1460b
Number of pages	3
ISSN	0036-8075
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1126/science.aab1578
Publication status	Published - 25 Sept 2015

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Cracraft, J., Houde, P., Ho, S. Y. W., Mindell, D. P., Fjeldså, J., Lindow, B. E. K., Edwards, S. V., Rahbek, C., Mirarab, S., Warnow, T., Gilbert, M. T. P., Zhang, G., Braun, E. L., & Jarvis, E. D. (2015). Response to Comment on “Whole-genome analyses resolve early branches in the tree of life of modern birds”. Science, 349(6255), 1460b. https://doi.org/10.1126/science.aab1578

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