December 22, 2014
Do you know the Avian Phylogenomic Project? A genomic project recovering the genetic secret among birds...
"The evolutionary relationships between modern bird lineages are contentious and have been debated for many years. In order to address this point, the Avian Genomes consortium has sequenced the genomes of 45 species of bird representing 36 orders. Together with the three previously sequenced genomes, these data have helped us resolve the phylogeny of the class Aves. As well as specific insights into bird biology, the wealth of data generated has allowed researchers to answer more general questions about evolutionary biology."
The full collection can be viewed here: http://avian.genomics.cn/en/index.html
Collection published: 11 December 2014
Biome interviewed the project leaders, Guojie Zhang, Associate Director of the National GeneBank at the BGI, China and Assistant Professor at the University of Copenhagen, Denmark, and Laurie Goodman, Editor-in-Chief of GigaScience and tell us more about this project:
How Bird Genomes Got Their Wings
You can learn more from the project website:
and the whole publication series on BiomedCentral:
image source: http://avian.genomics.cn/en/index.html
