Galloanserae

This superorder contains the following orders:

Timetree of Galloanserae, with the distribution of each family being indicated by the colour-code used throughout this website (see Distribution colour code). The relationships are primarily based on Prum et al. (2015).

Individual orders

References

Hosner, P.A., B.C. Faircloth, Glenn, T.C., Braun, E.L., and R.T. Kimball (2015), Avoiding missing data biases in phylogenomic inference: an empirical study

in the landfowl (Aves: Galliformes), Mol. Biol. Evol. doi: 10.1093/molbev/msv347. (abstract)

Prum, R.O., J.S. Berv, A. Dornburg, D.J. Field, J.P. Townsend, E.M. Lemmon and A.R. Lemmon (2015), A comprehensive phylogeny of birds (Aves) using

targeted next-generation DNA sequencing, Nature 526, 569-57. (abstract)

Stein, R.W., J.W. Brown, and G. Mayr (2015), A molecular genetic time scale demonstrates Cretaceous origins and multiple diversification rate shifts within

the order Galliformes (Aves), Mol. Phyl. Evol., 92, 155-164. (abstract)