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44 relations: Africa, Asia, Australia, Barred buttonquail, Basal (phylogenetics), Bird, Black-breasted buttonquail, Black-rumped buttonquail, Buff-breasted buttonquail, Buttonquail, Charadriiformes, Charles Sibley, Chestnut-backed buttonquail, Common buttonquail, Coturnix, Crop (anatomy), DNA–DNA hybridization, Egg incubation, Europe, Evolution (journal), Extinction, Fossil, Galliformes, George Robert Gray, Grassland, Gruiformes, Hottentot buttonquail, Jon E. Ahlquist, Little buttonquail, Madagascan buttonquail, Neoaves, Nucleic acid sequence, Painted buttonquail, Phasianidae, Polyandry, Quail-plover, Red-backed buttonquail, Red-chested buttonquail, Rupelian, Sibley–Ahlquist taxonomy of birds, Spotted buttonquail, Sumba buttonquail, Worcester's buttonquail, Yellow-legged buttonquail.
Africa
Africa is the world's second largest and second most-populous continent (behind Asia in both categories).
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Asia
Asia is Earth's largest and most populous continent, located primarily in the Eastern and Northern Hemispheres.
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Australia
Australia, officially the Commonwealth of Australia, is a sovereign country comprising the mainland of the Australian continent, the island of Tasmania and numerous smaller islands.
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Barred buttonquail
The barred buttonquail or common bustard-quail (Turnix suscitator) is a buttonquail, one of a small family of birds which resemble, but are unrelated to, the true quails.
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Basal (phylogenetics)
In phylogenetics, basal is the direction of the base (or root) of a rooted phylogenetic tree or cladogram.
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Bird
Birds, also known as Aves, are a group of endothermic vertebrates, characterised by feathers, toothless beaked jaws, the laying of hard-shelled eggs, a high metabolic rate, a four-chambered heart, and a strong yet lightweight skeleton.
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Black-breasted buttonquail
The black-breasted buttonquail (Turnix melanogaster) is a rare buttonquail endemic to eastern Australia, where it is usually found in rainforest.
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Black-rumped buttonquail
The black-rumped buttonquail (Turnix nanus) is a small species of bird in the buttonquail genus.
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Buff-breasted buttonquail
The buff-breasted buttonquail (Turnix olivii) is the largest and possibly the rarest of the buttonquail.
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Buttonquail
Buttonquail or hemipodes are members of a small family of birds, Turnicidae, which resemble, but are unrelated to, the quails of Phasianidae.
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Charadriiformes
Charadriiformes is a diverse order of small to medium-large birds.
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Charles Sibley
Charles Gald Sibley (August 7, 1917 – April 12, 1998) was an American ornithologist and molecular biologist.
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Chestnut-backed buttonquail
The chestnut-backed buttonquail (Turnix castanotus) is a species of bird in the family Turnicidae.
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Common buttonquail
The common buttonquail, Kurrichane buttonquail, small buttonquail, or Andalusian hemipode (Turnix sylvaticus) is a buttonquail, one of a small family of birds which resemble, but are unrelated to, the true quails.
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Coturnix
Coturnix is a genus of six extant species and two known extinct species of Old World quail.
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Crop (anatomy)
A crop (sometimes also called a croup or a craw, or ingluvies) is a thin-walled expanded portion of the alimentary tract used for the storage of food prior to digestion.
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DNA–DNA hybridization
DNA–DNA hybridization generally refers to a molecular biology technique that measures the degree of genetic similarity between pools of DNA sequences.
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Egg incubation
Incubation refers to the process by which certain oviparous (egg-laying) animals hatch their eggs; it also refers to the development of the embryo within the egg.
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Europe
Europe is a continent located entirely in the Northern Hemisphere and mostly in the Eastern Hemisphere.
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Evolution (journal)
Evolution, the International Journal of Organic Evolution, is a monthly scientific journal that publishes significant new results of empirical or theoretical investigations concerning facts, processes, mechanics, or concepts of evolutionary phenomena and events.
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Extinction
In biology, extinction is the termination of an organism or of a group of organisms (taxon), normally a species.
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Fossil
A fossil (from Classical Latin fossilis; literally, "obtained by digging") is any preserved remains, impression, or trace of any once-living thing from a past geological age.
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Galliformes
Galliformes is an order of heavy-bodied ground-feeding birds that includes turkey, grouse, chicken, New World quail and Old World quail, ptarmigan, partridge, pheasant, junglefowl and the Cracidae.
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George Robert Gray
George Robert Gray FRS (8 July 1808 – 6 May 1872) was an English zoologist and author, and head of the ornithological section of the British Museum, now the Natural History Museum, in London for forty-one years.
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Grassland
Grasslands are areas where the vegetation is dominated by grasses (Poaceae); however, sedge (Cyperaceae) and rush (Juncaceae) families can also be found along with variable proportions of legumes, like clover, and other herbs.
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Gruiformes
The Gruiformes are an order containing a considerable number of living and extinct bird families, with a widespread geographical diversity.
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Hottentot buttonquail
The Hottentot buttonquail (Turnix hottentottus) is a bird in the family Turnicidae formerly considered conspecific with the black-rumped buttonquail (Turnix nanus).
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Jon E. Ahlquist
Jon Edward Ahlquist (born 1944) is an American molecular biologist and ornithologist who has specialized in molecular phylogenetics.
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Little buttonquail
The little buttonquail (Turnix velox) is a species of buttonquail, part of a small family of birds which resemble, but are unrelated to, the true quails.
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Madagascan buttonquail
The Madagascan buttonquail (Turnix nigricollis) is a species of bird in the buttonquail family, Turnicidae.
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Neoaves
Neoaves is a clade that consists of all modern birds (Neornithes or Aves) with the exception of Paleognathae (ratites and kin) and Galloanserae (ducks, chickens and kin).
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Nucleic acid sequence
A nucleic acid sequence is a succession of letters that indicate the order of nucleotides forming alleles within a DNA (using GACT) or RNA (GACU) molecule.
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Painted buttonquail
The painted buttonquail (Turnix varius) is a species of buttonquail, the family Turnicidae, which resemble, but are unrelated to, the quails of Phasianidae.
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Phasianidae
The Phasianidae are a family of heavy, groundliving birds which includes pheasants, partridges, junglefowl, chickens, Old World quail, and peafowl.
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Polyandry
Polyandry (from πολυ- poly-, "many" and ἀνήρ anēr, "man") is a form of polygamy in which a woman takes two or more husbands at the same time.
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Quail-plover
The lark buttonquail, lark-plover or quail-plover (Ortyxelos meiffrenii) is a species of buttonquail in the family Turnicidae.
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Red-backed buttonquail
The red-backed buttonquail (Turnix maculosus) is a species of bird in the family Turnicidae.
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Red-chested buttonquail
The red-chested buttonquail (Turnix pyrrhothorax) is a species of bird in the family Turnicidae.
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Rupelian
The Rupelian is, in the geologic timescale, the older of two ages or the lower of two stages of the Oligocene epoch/series.
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Sibley–Ahlquist taxonomy of birds
The Sibley–Ahlquist taxonomy is a bird taxonomy proposed by Charles Sibley and Jon Edward Ahlquist.
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Spotted buttonquail
The spotted buttonquail (Turnix ocellatus) is a species of bird in the family Turnicidae.
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Sumba buttonquail
The Sumba buttonquail (Turnix everetti) is a species of bird in the family Turnicidae.
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Worcester's buttonquail
The Worcester's buttonquail or Luzon buttonquail (Turnix worcesteri) – named after Dean Conant Worcester – is a species of bird in the family Turnicidae.
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Yellow-legged buttonquail
The yellow-legged buttonquail (Turnix tanki) is a buttonquail, one of a small family of birds which resemble, but are unrelated to, the true quails.
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References
[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Buttonquail
