| phylogenetic relationships of the mockingbirds and thrashers (aves: mimidae). | the mockingbirds, thrashers and allied birds in the family mimidae are broadly distributed across the americas. many aspects of their phylogenetic history are well established, but there has been no previous phylogenetic study that included all species in this radiation. our reconstructions based on mitochondrial and nuclear dna sequence markers show that an early bifurcation separated the mimidae into two clades, the first of which includes north and middle american taxa (melanotis, melanoptila ... | 2012 | 21867766 |