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ArticleScience (New York, N.Y.)2015

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 Lindow, Scott V Edwards, Carsten Rahbek, Siavash Mirarab, Tandy Warnow and 4 more

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Article in Science (New York, N.Y.), 2015. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 17 papers.

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17citing papers in PubMed
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1 · What the graph read from it

What it found

Each row is one number read from the abstract, on the scale the paper reported it, with its interval. Left of the dashed line favours the treatment, right favours the comparator. Under each row is the sentence it came from. New to these charts? A ten-minute tutorial.

The abstract states no effect estimate the extractor could read, or names no intervention and outcome on the map, so this paper lights no cell and moves no belief. It is still indexed, cited and linked below.

2 · The registry

The trial behind it

Trials whose registry record cites this paper, or whose number appears in the abstract. A trial that started after this paper was published is citing it as background, not reporting it.

Neither the registry nor the abstract names a trial number. If this is a trial report, that itself is worth knowing.

3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

17 citing papers in PubMed.

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  4. Fourth Report on Chicken Genes and Chromosomes 2022.Cytogenetic and genome research · 2022
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  7. Time lapse: A glimpse into prehistoric genomics.European journal of medical genetics · 2020
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  13. Big-time insights from a tiny bird fossil.Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America · 2017
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  15. Advances in Time Estimation Methods for Molecular Data.Molecular biology and evolution · 2016
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4 · The record

Corrections and comments

5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

14 authors.

Joel CracraftDepartment of Ornithology, American Museum of Natural History, New York, NY 10024, USA. jlc@amnh.org ebraun68@ufl.edu jarvis@neuro.duke.edu.
Peter HoudeDepartment of Biology, New Mexico State University, Las Cruces, NM 88003, USA.
Simon Y W HoSchool of Biological Sciences, University of Sydney, Sydney, New South Wales 2006, Australia.
David P MindellDepartment of Biochemistry and Biophysics, University of California, San Francisco, CA 94158, USA.
Jon FjeldsåCenter for Macroecology, Evolution and Climate, Natural History Museum of Denmark, University of Copenhagen, Universitetsparken 15, DK-2100 Copenhagen Ø, Denmark.
Bent LindowCentre for GeoGenetics, Natural History Museum of Denmark, University of Copenhagen, Øster Voldgade 5-7, 1350 Copenhagen, Denmark.
Scott V EdwardsDepartment of Organismic and Evolutionary Biology and Museum of Comparative Zoology, Harvard University, Cambridge, MA 02138, USA.
Carsten RahbekCenter for Macroecology, Evolution and Climate, Natural History Museum of Denmark, University of Copenhagen, Universitetsparken 15, DK-2100 Copenhagen Ø, Denmark. Department of Life Sciences, Imperial College London, Silwood Park Campus, Ascot SL5 7PY, UK.
Siavash MirarabDepartment of Computer Science, The University of Texas at Austin, Austin, TX 78712, USA.
Tandy WarnowDepartment of Computer Science, The University of Texas at Austin, Austin, TX 78712, USA. Departments of Bioengineering and Computer Science, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, Urbana, IL 61801, USA.
M Thomas P GilbertCentre for GeoGenetics, Natural History Museum of Denmark, University of Copenhagen, Øster Voldgade 5-7, 1350 Copenhagen, Denmark. Trace and Environmental DNA Laboratory Department of Environment and Agriculture, Curtin University, Perth, Western Australia 6102, Australia.
Guojie ZhangChina National GeneBank, BGI-Shenzhen, Shenzhen 518083, China. Centre for Social Evolution, Department of Biology, Universitetsparken 15, University of Copenhagen, DK-2100 Copenhagen, Denmark.
Edward L BraunDepartment of Biology and Genetics Institute, University of Florida, Gainesville, FL 32611, USA. jlc@amnh.org ebraun68@ufl.edu jarvis@neuro.duke.edu.
Erich D JarvisDepartment of Neurobiology, Duke University Medical Center, Durham, NC 27710, USA. Howard Hughes Medical Institute, Chevy Chase, MD 20815, USA. jlc@amnh.org ebraun68@ufl.edu jarvis@neuro.duke.edu.

Funding

Howard Hughes Medical Institute
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

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.

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