Response to Comment on "A Well-Preserved Archaeopteryx Specimen with Theropod Features"

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Science 1 September 2006:
Vol. 313. no. 5791, p. 1238
DOI: 10.1126/science.1130964

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Response to Comment on "A Well-Preserved Archaeopteryx Specimen with Theropod Features"

Gerald Mayr^* and D. Stefan Peters

We agree that statistical support for our proposed phylogenyis weak, but the monophyly of Aves favored by most current researchersis also weakly supported. In the absence of unambiguous apomorphiesof a clade including Archaeopteryx and Confuciusornis but notdeinonychosaurs, we do not believe that the statistical comparisonsmade by Corfe and Butler challenge our hypothesis regardingthe ancestry of birds.

Forschungsinstitut Senckenberg, Sektion Ornithologie, Senckenberganlage 25, D-60325 Frankfurt am Main, Germany.

^* To whom correspondence should be addressed. E-mail: Gerald.Mayr{at}senckenberg.de

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TECHNICAL COMMENTS Comment on "A Well-Preserved Archaeopteryx Specimen with Theropod Features": Ian J. Corfe and Richard J. Butler (1 September 2006)
Science 313 (5791), 1238b. [DOI: 10.1126/science.1130800]
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REPORTS A Well-Preserved Archaeopteryx Specimen with Theropod Features: Gerald Mayr, Burkhard Pohl, and D. Stefan Peters (2 December 2005)
Science 310 (5753), 1483. [DOI: 10.1126/science.1120331]
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