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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2018 Mar 5.
Published in final edited form as: Annu Rev Anim Biosci. 2015;3:57–111. doi: 10.1146/annurev-animal-090414-014900

Figure 3.

Figure 3

Consensus phylogeny of the major lineages of birds. In parentheses are the number of living species as defined by Howard and Moore (277), with the exception of the Passerine species count, which is taken from (1)/number of species with published and/or pending genomes (Tables 2 and 3). Data include both those genomes published to date as listed in Table 2 and those currently undergoing final assembly and annotation as part of the Avian Phylogenomic Consortium (Table 3). The underlying time-calibrated phylogenetic tree is a composite of the Neognath phylogeny published by Jarvis et al. (112) and Palaeognath phylogeny published by Mitchell et al. (278). Illustrations courtesy of Jon Fjeldå.