Sorry, I realise this wasn’t made clear in the last post - I was reaching my BS char limit. Annoyingly the slide resolution isn’t very clear upon upload either, as it’s shown on the tree on the right of slide 5. It appears to have been the ducks, due to the earliest appearance of crown-group taxa.

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Bayesian phylogenetic analyses place moa-nalos in Anatinae and Alopochen in Tadorninae, confirm Cairinini’s non-monophyly as convergence, and date crown Anatidae to the Early Miocene (~19 Ma). The monophyly of several other clades was confirmed, the resurrection of Tachyerini is supported.
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A novel total evidence dataset and associated phylogenetic analyses were utilized, based on 209 morphological characters (e.g., external soft tissue and cranial), as well as 13.4 kb of mitochondrial sequence data for 75 anatid taxa (72 extant, 3 fossil) and 3 non-anatid outgroup taxa.
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Asteriornis shares features of Galliformes & Anseriformes, depending on phylogenetic analysis it is either placed as sister to Galloanserae or is placed within the super clade, supports the hypothesis that modern birds were around before the K/T extinction.

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Historically the phylogeny of Anatidae has been studied using morphological evidence, but molecular data (primarily mitochondrial sequence data) has become increasingly available.

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Again… you dropped the mouse AGAIN?!

Thank you so much for the opportunity to work with you on this and the Smew account. The team are great and they were incredibly helpful as I learned the review process. I am looking forward to our continuous collaborations on additional accounts!