—A novel nuclear marker, the avian ovomucoid intron G (OVOG) was sequenced from 19 galliform taxa. Results of the phylogenetic analyses using OVOG were compared to those obtained using the mitochondrial cytochrome b (cytb) gene to determine the phylogenetic utility of OVOG. OVOG appeared to have strong phylogenetic signal for reconstructing relationships among genera and families, and the only ...
