Disease relevance of Falconiformes

• Treatment of aspergillosis in raptors (order falconiformes) with miconazole [1].

High impact information on Falconiformes

• Phylogenetic trees derived from aligned, evolutionarily conserved Aanat regions did not consistently recover clades corresponding to orders Strigiformes and Falconiformes but did place a caprimulgiform clade more distant from the strigiform and falconiform species than the latter two groups are to each other [2].
• The majority of birds reported killed by famphur were Passeriformes and Falconiformes, with the latter found dead in 90% of famphur-related poisoning events [3].
• Sex identification by alternative polymerase chain reaction methods in falconiformes [4].
• Whereas in Marsupialia, Chiroptera, primates, Rodentia, Proboscidea, Sirenia, Perissodactyla and Artiodactyla only retinol was found, retinyl esters (basically retinol palmitate/oleate) represented 10 to 50% of the total plasma vitamin A in some birds of the order Ciconiiformes and Falconiformes [5].

Biological context of Falconiformes

• Partial Aanat coding sequences, and two introns, were obtained from the genomic DNA of 16 species: Strigiformes (four species), Falconiformes (four species), Caprimulgiformes (five species), with outgroups: Ciconiiformes (one species), Passeriformes (one species), and Apterygiformes (one species) [2].

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