ntbirdman
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I guess this isn't really surprising news anymore, but another study placing the tinamou within Ratites:
Matthew J. Phillips , Gillian C. Gibb , Elizabeth A. Crimp , and David Penny. Tinamous and Moa Flock Together: Mitochondrial Genome Sequence Analysis Reveals Independent Losses of Flight among Ratites. Systematic Biology 59: 90-107.
http://sysbio.oxfordjournals.org.proxy.library.cornell.edu/cgi/content/full/59/1/90
Abstract:
http://sysbio.oxfordjournals.org.proxy.library.cornell.edu/cgi/content/abstract/59/1/90
Matthew J. Phillips , Gillian C. Gibb , Elizabeth A. Crimp , and David Penny. Tinamous and Moa Flock Together: Mitochondrial Genome Sequence Analysis Reveals Independent Losses of Flight among Ratites. Systematic Biology 59: 90-107.
http://sysbio.oxfordjournals.org.proxy.library.cornell.edu/cgi/content/full/59/1/90
Abstract:
http://sysbio.oxfordjournals.org.proxy.library.cornell.edu/cgi/content/abstract/59/1/90