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, The Avian Genome Consortium, Burt, David W.
• Format: Article in Journal/Newspaper
• Language: English
• Published: BioMed Central 2014
• Subjects: Avian genomes; Phylogenomics; Whole genome sequencing; Finch; Adelie penguin; peregrine falcon
• Online Access: https://espace.library.uq.edu.au/view/UQ:688047

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...