Comparative genomic data of the Avian Phylogenomics Projects

• Published in: GigaScience
• Format: Article in Journal/Newspaper
• Language: English
• Published: University of Canterbury. Biological Sciences 2014
• Subjects: avian genomes; phylogenomics; whole genome sequencing; Field of Research::06 - Biological Sciences::0604 - Genetics::060408 - Genomics; Finch; Adelie penguin; peregrine falcon
• Online Access: http://hdl.handle.net/10092/10073; https://doi.org/10.1186/2047-217X-3-26

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 Neognathae and two...