From the abstract of that chapter:
"Our work focused first on determining the likely karyotype of the avian ancestor (probably a small, bipedal, feathered, terrestrial Jurassic dinosaur) finding great similarity to the chicken."
They mean the last common ancestor of the crown group, right? Because that was a much later and much more chicken-like animal.
Gesendet: Mittwoch, 10. Juli 2019 um 23:53 Uhr
Von: "David Černý" <david.cerny1@gmail.com>
An: dinosaur-l@usc.edu
Betreff: Re: [dinosaur] Dinosaur Origins + Neoavian Radiation
The avian phylogenomics paper also cites a chapter from a recent book on the same topic that has not yet been mentioned on the list:
Kraus RHS, ed. Avian Genomics in Ecology and Evolution: From the Lab into the Wild. Cham, Switzerland: Springer Nature Switzerland AG
List members may be particularly interested in the last chapter, "Jurassic Park: What Did the Genomes of Dinosaurs Look Like?"