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Comparative genomics reveals insights into avian genome evolution and adaptation.

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Zhang, G; Li, C; Li, Q; Li, B; Larkin, DM; Lee, C; Storz, JF; Antunes, A; Greenwold, MJ; Meredith, RW; Ödeen, A; Cui, J; Zhou, Q; Xu, L ...
Published in: Science
December 12, 2014

Birds are the most species-rich class of tetrapod vertebrates and have wide relevance across many research fields. We explored bird macroevolution using full genomes from 48 avian species representing all major extant clades. The avian genome is principally characterized by its constrained size, which predominantly arose because of lineage-specific erosion of repetitive elements, large segmental deletions, and gene loss. Avian genomes furthermore show a remarkably high degree of evolutionary stasis at the levels of nucleotide sequence, gene synteny, and chromosomal structure. Despite this pattern of conservation, we detected many non-neutral evolutionary changes in protein-coding genes and noncoding regions. These analyses reveal that pan-avian genomic diversity covaries with adaptations to different lifestyles and convergent evolution of traits.

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Science

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1095-9203

Publication Date

December 12, 2014

Volume

346

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6215

Start / End Page

1311 / 1320

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United States

Related Subject Headings

  • Vocalization, Animal
  • Vision, Ocular
  • Synteny
  • Sequence Analysis, DNA
  • Selection, Genetic
  • Reproduction
  • Phylogeny
  • Molecular Sequence Annotation
  • Male
  • Genomics
 

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Zhang, G., Li, C., Li, Q., Li, B., Larkin, D. M., Lee, C., … Gilbert, M. T. P. (2014). Comparative genomics reveals insights into avian genome evolution and adaptation. Science, 346(6215), 1311–1320. https://doi.org/10.1126/science.1251385
Zhang, Guojie, Cai Li, Qiye Li, Bo Li, Denis M. Larkin, Chul Lee, Jay F. Storz, et al. “Comparative genomics reveals insights into avian genome evolution and adaptation.Science 346, no. 6215 (December 12, 2014): 1311–20. https://doi.org/10.1126/science.1251385.
Zhang G, Li C, Li Q, Li B, Larkin DM, Lee C, et al. Comparative genomics reveals insights into avian genome evolution and adaptation. Science. 2014 Dec 12;346(6215):1311–20.
Zhang, Guojie, et al. “Comparative genomics reveals insights into avian genome evolution and adaptation.Science, vol. 346, no. 6215, Dec. 2014, pp. 1311–20. Pubmed, doi:10.1126/science.1251385.
Zhang G, Li C, Li Q, Li B, Larkin DM, Lee C, Storz JF, Antunes A, Greenwold MJ, Meredith RW, Ödeen A, Cui J, Zhou Q, Xu L, Pan H, Wang Z, Jin L, Zhang P, Hu H, Yang W, Hu J, Xiao J, Yang Z, Liu Y, Xie Q, Yu H, Lian J, Wen P, Zhang F, Li H, Zeng Y, Xiong Z, Liu S, Zhou L, Huang Z, An N, Wang J, Zheng Q, Xiong Y, Wang G, Wang B, Fan Y, da Fonseca RR, Alfaro-Núñez A, Schubert M, Orlando L, Mourier T, Howard JT, Ganapathy G, Pfenning A, Whitney O, Rivas MV, Hara E, Smith J, Farré M, Narayan J, Slavov G, Romanov MN, Borges R, Machado JP, Khan I, Springer MS, Gatesy J, Hoffmann FG, Opazo JC, Håstad O, Sawyer RH, Kim H, Kim K-W, Kim HJ, Cho S, Li N, Huang Y, Bruford MW, Zhan X, Dixon A, Bertelsen MF, Derryberry E, Warren W, Wilson RK, Li S, Ray DA, Green RE, O’Brien SJ, Griffin D, Johnson WE, Haussler D, Ryder OA, Willerslev E, Graves GR, Alström P, Fjeldså J, Mindell DP, Edwards SV, Braun EL, Rahbek C, Burt DW, Houde P, Zhang Y, Yang H, Avian Genome Consortium, Jarvis ED, Gilbert MTP. Comparative genomics reveals insights into avian genome evolution and adaptation. Science. 2014 Dec 12;346(6215):1311–1320.
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Published In

Science

DOI

EISSN

1095-9203

Publication Date

December 12, 2014

Volume

346

Issue

6215

Start / End Page

1311 / 1320

Location

United States

Related Subject Headings

  • Vocalization, Animal
  • Vision, Ocular
  • Synteny
  • Sequence Analysis, DNA
  • Selection, Genetic
  • Reproduction
  • Phylogeny
  • Molecular Sequence Annotation
  • Male
  • Genomics