PT  - JOURNAL ARTICLE
AU  - Cracraft, Joel
AU  - Houde, Peter
AU  - Ho, Simon Y. W.
AU  - Mindell, David P.
AU  - Fjeldså, Jon
AU  - Lindow, Bent
AU  - Edwards, Scott V.
AU  - Rahbek, Carsten
AU  - Mirarab, Siavash
AU  - Warnow, Tandy
AU  - Gilbert, M. Thomas P.
AU  - Zhang, Guojie
AU  - Braun, Edward L.
AU  - Jarvis, Erich D.
TI  - Response to Comment on “Whole-genome analyses resolve early branches in the tree of life of modern birds”
AID  - 10.1126/science.aab1578
DP  - 2015 Sep 25
TA  - Science
PG  - 1460--1460
VI  - 349
IP  - 6255
4099  - http://science.sciencemag.org/content/349/6255/1460.2.short
4100  - http://science.sciencemag.org/content/349/6255/1460.2.full
SO  - Science2015 Sep 25; 349
AB  - Mitchell et al. argue that divergence-time estimates for our avian phylogeny were too young because of an “inappropriate” maximum age constraint for the most recent common ancestor of modern birds and that, as a result, most modern bird orders diverged before the Cretaceous-Paleogene mass extinction event 66 million years ago instead of after. However, their interpretations of the fossil record and timetrees are incorrect.