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Recent content by jts1882

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    My taxonomic predictions

    I can't help note you always use subfamilies, even when they are the sole one. P.S. Hoatzin and Pink-spotted Fruit-dove are LC, as are the four Hemiprocne treeswifts.
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    Phylogeny of birds

    Fig 2A shows the families with 25 or more members in the tree. It looks like the ordinal topology is the Stiller et al (2024) one. I can't tell for certain if it's exactly the same, but there seem to be small unlabelled branches in the right places. I'm assuming this is not entirely because...
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    Phylogeny of birds

    I'm assuming you should be able to view the tree at Open Tree of Life, at least when the paper is published. Not sure if it's loaded yet or how to check the paper version versus the live OTT version. The current tree for Aves has Caprimulgimorphae as the first neoavian branch. If you look at...
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    Petition to AOS Leadership on the Recent Decision to Change all Eponymous Bird Names

    An allusion to the film A Fish Called Wanda.
  5. J

    Petition to AOS Leadership on the Recent Decision to Change all Eponymous Bird Names

    There can't be too many articles using Taylor Swift and Hitler in the same sentence. Perhaps this illustrates the flaw in the argument that all eponyms are equivalent.
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    Robins are flycatchers?

    https://www.sanbi.org/animal-of-the-week/fiscal-flycatcher/
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    Petition to AOS Leadership on the Recent Decision to Change all Eponymous Bird Names

    noun plural noun: retcons (in a film, television series, or other fictional work) a piece of new information that imposes a different interpretation on previously described events, typically used to facilitate a dramatic plot shift or account for an inconsistency. "we're given a retcon for...
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    The mitonuclear compatibility species concept

    Genes do migrate between mitochondrial and nuclear genomes over evolutionary time. Mitochondria are no longer capable of free living because some vital genes are now in the nucleus (e.g. some involved in oxidative phosphorylation). This means for proper functioning of mitochondria, notably...
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    How to describe a new species in zoology

    The botanical diagnoses are equally baffling in English or Latin.
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    Anatidae

    On the phylogeny and taxonomy lull, we have had an important paper on avian phylogeny this year. As someone who looks down the phylogenetic tree (or do I mean up the tree) rather than looking up from a species checklist it's been a good year, with significant papers on fish and angiosperms as...
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    AOU-NACC Proposals 2024

    Which would probably rule out Kalinago wren.
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    Howard and Moore Checklist G. O. A. T.?

    Somethings up. The updated families from Struthionidae to Apodidae are no longer available. They link to the old H&M4.1 version. But I see no update about where or when the new material will be available (presumably behind a paywall).
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    Taxonomy in-flux updates

    He's redefined Columbea as Kuhl's Lower Landbird clade (i.e. Gruimorphae, Strisores, Columbaves). Comparing the two trees there are only two main differences in the higher taxa. Columbaves branches after Mirandornithes in Stiller rather than being grouped with Strisores and Gruimorphae in Kuhl...
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    Phylogeny of birds

    They describe the composition and reason for name.
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    Phylogeny of birds

    Fig 2 needs that "Passeriformes (see Extended Data Fig. 2)" terminal changed to Fig 3. I note in Fig 3 you have Tichodroma in Sittidae rather than Tichodromidae, making Sittidae paraphyletic. Similarly for Chloropsis in Irenidae. I assume this is because you are using H&M4 families, but this...
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