Comparative genomic data of the Avian Phylogenomics Project

• Published in: GigaScience
• Main Authors: Zhang, Guojie, Li, Bo, Li, Cai, Gilbert, M Thomas P, Jarvis, Erich D, Wang, Jun
• Format: Article in Journal/Newspaper
• Language: English
• Published: BioMed Central Ltd; part of Springer Nature 2014
• Subjects: QH Natural history; QH426 Genetics; QL Zoology; Finch; Adelie penguin; peregrine falcon
• Online Access: https://kar.kent.ac.uk/57583/; https://kar.kent.ac.uk/57583/1/Zhang%26al2014%28GigaScience%20-%20Consortium%20list%29.xls; https://kar.kent.ac.uk/57583/2/Zhang%26al2014%28GigaScience%29.pdf; https://doi.org/10.1186/2047-217X-3-26

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 Neognath...