Aves: References

Beresford, P, FK Barker, PG Ryan & TM Crowe 2005), African endemics span the tree of songbirds (Passeri): molecular systematics of several evolutionary ‘enigmas.’  Proc. Roy. Soc. London B 272: 849-858.
Ratites.

Bertelli, S & LM Chiappe (2005), Earliest tinamous (Aves: Palaeognathae) from the Miocene of Argentina and their phylogenetic position. Contrib. Sci. #502, 20 pp.
Ratites.

Bertelli, S & AL Porzecanski (2004), Tinamou (Tinamidae) systematics: A preliminary combined analysis of morphology and molecules. Ornit. Neotrop. 15 (supp.), 8pp.
Ratites.

Chiappe, LM (1995), The first 85 million years of avian evolution. Nature 378: 349-355.
Aves, Carinatae, Ornithothoraces, Ornithurae.

Chiappe, LM & CA Walker (2002), Skeletal morphology and systematics of the Cretaceous Euenantiornithes (Ornithothoraces: Enantiornithes), in LM Chiappe & LM Witmer [eds.], Mesozoic Birds: Above the Heads of the Dinosaurs. Univ. Calif. Press.  pp. 240-267.
Neornithes.

Chiappe, LM, J Shu'an, J Qiang, & MA Norell 1999), Anatomy and systematics of the Confuciusornithidae (Theropoda: Aves) from the Late Mesozoic of northeastern China. Bul. Amer. Mus. Nat. Hist. 242: 1-89.
Confuciusornithidae, Ornithurae.

Clarke, JA & LM Chiappe (2001), A new carinate bird from the Late Cretaceous of Patagonia (Argentina). Amer. Mus. Nov. 3323, 23 pp. WWW.
Carinatae

Clarke, JA, CP Tambussi, JI Noriega, GM Erickson & RA Ketcham (2005), Definitive fossil evidence for the extant avian radiation in the Cretaceous. Nature 433: 305-308.
Neornithes.

Cooper, A, C Lalueza-Fox, S Anderson, A Rambaut, J Austin & R Ward (2001), Complete mitochondrial genome sequences of two extinct moas clarify ratite evolution. Nature 409: 704-707.
Ratites.

Cracraft, J (1974), Phylogeny and evolution of the ratite birds. Ibis 116: 494-521.
Ratites.

Cracraft, J (2001), Avian evolution, Gondwana biogeography and the Cretaceous-Tertiary mass extinction event.  Proc. Roy. Soc. London B 268: 459-469.
Ratites.

Edwards, SV, B Fertil, A Giron & PJ Deschavanne (2002), A genomic schism in birds revealed by phylogenetic analysis of DNA strings. Syst. Biol. 51: 599-613.
Ratites.

Feduccia, A (1999), The Origin and Evolution of Birds (2nd ed.). Yale Univ. Press, 466 pp.
Aves, Ornithurae.

Garner, JP, GK Taylor & ALR Thomas (1999), On the origin of birds: the sequence of character acquisition in the evolution of avian flight. Proc. Roy. Soc. London B 266: 1259-1266.
Aves

Gee, H. (1999), In Search of Deep Time, Free Press.
Aves.

Haddrath, O & AJ Baker (2004), Complete mitochondrial DNA genome sequences of extinct birds: ratite phylogenetics and the vicariance biogeography hypothesis. Proc. R. Soc. Lond. B  268: 939-945.  
Ratites.

Harrison, GL, PA McLenachan, MJ Phillips, KE Slack, A Cooper & D Penny (2004), Four new avian mitochondrial genomes help get to basic evolutionary questions in the Late Cretaceous. Mol. Biol. Evol. 21: 974–983.  
Ratites.    

Heads, M (2005), Dating nodes on molecular phylogenies: a critique of molecular biogeography. Cladistics.  21: 62-78.
Ratites.

Hope, S (2002), The Mesozoic radiation of Neornithes, in LM Chiappe & LM Witmer [eds.], Mesozoic Birds: Above the Heads of the Dinosaurs. Univ. Calif. Press., pp. 339-388.
Neornithes.

Hutchinson, JR (2004), Biomechanical modeling and sensitivity analysis of bipedal running ability. I. Extant taxa. J. Morphol. 262: 421-440.   
Neornithes, Ratites.

Maryanska, T, H Osmólska & M Wolsan (2002), Avialan status for Oviraptorosauria. Acta Pal. Pol. 47: 97-116.
Aves.

Padian, K, JR Hutchinson & TR Holtz, Jr. 1999), Phylogenetic definitions and nomenclature of the major taxonomic categories of the carnivorous Dinosauria (Theropoda). J. Vert. Paleontol. 19: 69-80.
Aves Overview, Carinatae, Ornithothoraces, Ornithurae.

Perle, A, MA Norell, LM Chiappe & JM Clark (1993), Flightless bird from the Cretaceous of Mongolia. Nature 362: 623-626.
Ornithothoraces

Phillips, MJ, Y-H Lin, GL Harrison & D Penny 2001), Mitochondrial genomes of a bandicoot and a brushtail possum confirm the monophyly of australidelphian marsupials.  Proc. Roy. Soc. London B 268: 1533-1538.
Ratites

Proctor, NS & PJ Lynch (1993), Manual of Ornithology: Avian Structure & Function. Yale Univ. Press, 340 pp.
Aves Overview, Ornithurae.

Rage, J-C (2003), Relationships of the Malagasy fauna during the Late Cretaceous: Northern or southern routes?  Acta Pal. Pol. 48: 661-662.
Ratites.   

Sanmartín, I & F Ronquist (2004), Southern Hemisphere biogeography inferred by event-based models: Plant versus animal patterns. Syst. Biol. 53:216–243.
Ratites.

Sereno, PC, JA Wilson & JL Conrad (2004), New dinosaurs link southern landmasses in the Mid-Cretaceous.  Proc. Roy. Soc. London B03PB1064 (on line). 
Ratites

Tsuda Y, C Nishida-Umehara, J Ishijima, K Yamada & Y Matsuda (2007), Comparison of the Z and W sex chromosomal architectures in elegant crested tinamou (Eudromia elegans) and ostrich (Struthio camelus) and the process of sex chromosome differentiation in palaeognathous birds. Chromosoma 116: 159-173.
Neornithes.

van Tuinen, M, CG Sibley & SB Hedges (1998), Phylogeny and biogeography of ratite birds inferred from DNA sequences of the mitochondrial ribosomal genes. Mol. Biol. Evol. 15: 370–376.
Ratites.

Waddell, PJ, Y Cao, M Hasegawa & DP Mindell 1999), Assessing the Cretaceous superordinal divergence times within birds and placental mammals by using whole mitochondrial protein sequences and an extended statistical framework. Syst. Biol. 48: 119–137.   
Ratites.

Waters, JM & MS Roy (2004), Out of Africa: The slow train to Australasia. Syst. Biol. 53: 18-24.
Ratites.

Zhou, Z-G & F-C Zhang (2001), Two new ornithurine birds from the Early Cretaceous of western Liaoning, China. Chin. Sci. Bull. 48: 1258-1264.  WWW.
Orinithurae.