In phylogenetic taxonomy, the Carinatae are considered the last common ancestor of Neornithes (living birds) and Ichthyornis (an extinct seabird of the Cretaceous).
Traditionally, Carinatae were defined as all birds having a keeledsternum.
Rather, carinates are unique in having, for example, a globe-shaped, convex head on the humerus and fully fused bones in the lower leg and outer arm.
EL–1v.) found vestiges of a keel in a young rhea, and apteria in the embryonic ostrich, and she concluded that they were descendants of birds which originally possessed the power of flight.
It had already been understood that the various genera of the Ratitae were the representatives of so many different groups, each of which was at least equivalent to ordinal rank, and that therefore, if the Ratitae were still to.
We restrict the origin of the Ratitae to that great branch of still primitive Carinatae which, after separation of the Ratitae, has further developed into the legion of the Alectoromorphae, notably Tinami- and Galliformes, together with still low Gruiformes (see BIRD, Classification).
The separation of the Ratitae from the other birds, and their seemingly fundamental differences, notably the absence of the keel and of the power of flight, induced certain authors to go so far as to derive the Ratitae from the Dinosaurian reptiles, whilst Archaeopteryx (q.v.
It had already been understood that the various genera of the Ratitae were the representatives of so many different groups, each of which was at least equivalent to ordinal rank, and that therefore, if the Ratitae were still to be considered a natural group, this common ancestry must be referred to a remote geological epoch.
We restrict the origin of the Ratitae to that great branch of still primitive Carinatae which, after separation of the Ratitae, has further developed into the legion of the Alectoromorphae, notably Tinamiand Galliformes, together with still low Gruiformes (see BIRD, Classification).
Identification of the Sex of a Wide Range of CarinataeBirds by PCR Using Primer Sets Selected from Chicken EE0.6 and Its Related Sequences -- Itoh et al.
Sequences of subregions of W- or Z-linked EE0.6 from 12 or 10 different Carinatae species are compared and a forward primer (A) and a reverse primer (B) were selected.
Molecular characterization and cytological mapping of a non-repetitive DNA sequence region from the W chromosome of chicken and its use as a universal probe for sexing Carinataebirds.
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Keels do not exist on all birds; in particular, some flightless birds lack a keel structure.
Historically, the presence or absence of a pronounced keel structure was used as a broad classification of birds into two classes: Carinatae (from carina, "keel"), having a pronounced keel; and Ratites (from ratis, "raft" — referring to the flatness of the sternum), having a subtle keel structure or lacking one entirely.
The current definition of Carinatae now includes all extant birds.
Characters: chicken-sized; quadrate with 3 distal condyles forming a triangle; unique fused quadrate-pterygoid complex; 3rd pair of transverse processes enlarged; synsacrum present, wide and ventrally convex; caudal prezygapophyses absent or much reduced; very small wings (flightless) distinct neck posteroventral to the glenoid; absence of pubic foot; tarsometatarsal vascular distal foramen.
Note: Traditionally, "Carinatae" was used to mean all neornithines other than ratites.
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The EE0.6 sequence is conserved in all species of birds examined both in Carinatae and Ratitae.
The W- and Z-linked EE0.6 sequences, cloned from 12 different species, were compared and four forward and three reverse primers were selected to amplify parts of the EE0.6 sequence by polymerase chain reaction (PCR).
By choosing a suitable combination of primers for EE0.6 and a set of primers for a Z/W-common sequence, as an internal control, the sex of 36 species belonging to 16 different orders of Carinatae could be determined clearly by PCR.
Keels do not exist on all birds; in particular, some flightless birds lack a keel structure.
Historically, the presence or absence of a pronounced keel structure was used as a broad classification of birds into two classes: Carinatae (from carina, "keel"), having a pronounced keel; and Ratites (from ratis, "raft" — referring to the flatness of the sternum), having a subtle keel structure or lacking one entirely.
The current definition of Carinatae now includes all extant birds.
Presence of the reiterated Wpkci gene in the female genomes of Carinataebirds.
The female-specific Wpkci gene was conserved among all the Carinatae species of birds examined.
Ogawa, A., Solovei, I., Hutchison, N., Saitoh, Y., Ikeda, J., Macgregor, H., and Mizuno, S. Molecular characterization and cytological mapping of a non-repetitive DNA sequence region from the W chromosome of chicken and its use as a universal probe for sexing Carinataebirds.
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A non-repetitive genomic DNA region of about 25 kb was cloned from the W chromosome of chicken using a genomic library prepared from a single W chromosome of the chicken.
A 0.6-kb EcoRI fragment (EE0.6) subcloned from this region consists of a sequence that can be obtained by the exon-trapping procedure and flanking sequences.
Sequences, which are closely similar to that of EE0.6, are widely conserved on the W chromosomes of Carinataebirds, as revealed by Southern blot hybridization to HindIII-digested female and male genomic DNAs from 18 species of birds belonging to eight different taxonomic orders.
Grey circles indicate possible initial divergence times for clades; known fossils (squares) show constraints on ages.
Early divergences within the Carinatae could be older, and we have conservatively placed them later in the Cretaceous to give only one long ghost-lineage between Ambiortus and the early Carinatae.
The placement of Waimanu within Sphenisciformes is evaluated by the cladistic analysis described in the text; see also Supplementary Information Figure 4.