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Clade of birds From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Psittacopasseres is a taxon of birds consisting of the Passeriformes (passerines, a large group of perching birds) and Psittaciformes (parrots).[3] Per Ericson and colleagues, in analysing genomic DNA, revealed a lineage comprising passerines, psittacines and Falconiformes.[4] The group was proposed following an alignment of nuclear intron sequences by Shannon Hackett et al. in 2008.[5] It was formally named as Psittacopasserae in a 2011 Nature Communications article by Alexander Suh and other authors working with Jürgen Schmitz's group,[6] based on genetic analysis of the insertion of retroposons into the genomes of key avian lineages over the course of evolution during the Mesozoic Era.[clarification needed]
Psittacopasseres | |
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House sparrow, Passer domesticus | |
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Grey parrot, Psittacus erithacus | |
Scientific classification ![]() | |
Domain: | Eukaryota |
Kingdom: | Animalia |
Phylum: | Chordata |
Class: | Aves |
Clade: | Eufalconimorphae |
Clade: | Psittacopasseres Suh et al., 2011 |
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Synonyms | |
Psittacopasserae Suh et al., 2011 |
Passerines are renowned as songbirds (technically this word refers to a clade of passerines), and parrots share a capacity for vocal learning. Thus it is possible that vocal learning, and the corresponding variety of song, was present in a psittacopasseran ancestor.[6]
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