| a multi-gene phylogeny of aquiline eagles (aves: accipitriformes) reveals extensive paraphyly at the genus level. | the phylogeny of the tribe aquilini (eagles with fully feathered tarsi) was investigated using 4.2 kb of dna sequence of one mitochondrial (cyt b) and three nuclear loci (rag-1 coding region, ldh intron 3, and adenylate-kinase intron 5). phylogenetic signal was highly congruent and complementary between mtdna and nuclear genes. in addition to single-nucleotide variation, shared deletions in nuclear introns supported one basal and two peripheral clades within the aquilini. monophyly of the aquili ... | 2005 | 15737588 |