Complex sentence: The former family has been merged into the ovenbird family, Furnariidae, by most authorities because analyses of mt and nDNA sequence data showed "Sclerurus" leaftossers and "Geositta" miners to be basal to the Furnariidae "and" the woodcreepers.
Split into simpler sentences: The former family has been merged into the ovenbird family, Furnariidae, by most authorities. Analyses of mt and nDNA sequence data showed "Sclerurus" leaftossers and "Geositta" miners to be basal to the Furnariidae "and" the woodcreepers.