Comparative genomic data of the Avian Phylogenomics Project.

• Main Authors: Zhang, Guojie, Li, Bo, Li, Cai, Gilbert, M Thomas P, Jarvis, Erich D, Wang, Jun, Avian Genome Consortium
• Format: Other/Unknown Material
• Language: unknown
• Published: 2014
• Subjects: Avian genomes; Phylogenomics; Whole genome sequencing; Finch; Adelie penguin; peregrine falcon
• Online Access: https://hdl.handle.net/10161/9322; http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/25671091

BACKGROUND: The evolutionary relationships of modern birds are among the most challenging to understand in systematic biology and have been debated for centuries. To address this challenge, we assembled or collected the genomes of 48 avian species spanning most orders of birds, including all Neognat...