title: The evolution of birds: an overview of the avian tree of life.
abstract: The author provides a general overview of the molecular data used to reconstruct the avian tree of life, summarizes some highlights of the ensuing controversies, and reveals those taxonomic relationships that remain largely unchanged by molecular data.
authors.affiliation: Department of Ornithology, The American Museum of Natural History,New York, NY 10024, USA. nyneve@amnh.org
authors.forename: Devorah A N
authors.initials: DA
authors.lastname: Bennu
mesh_terms: D000818:Animals; D001717:Birds / Q000145:classification* / Q000235:genetics*; D004247:DNA / Q000235:genetics* / Q000378:metabolism*; D005580:Fossils; D010802:Phylogeny
chemical_list: D004247:DNA