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Novel Sequence Discovery by Subtractive Genomics
Published on: January 25, 2019
The birds of Genome10K
Stephen J OBrien1, David Haussler2, Oliver Ryder3
1Theodosius Dobzhansky Center for Genome Bioinformatics, St. Petersburg State University, St. Petersburg, 199004 Russia ; Oceanographic Center, Nova Southeastern University, Ft Lauderdale, FL 33004 USA.
Abstract:
Everyone loves the birds of the world. From their haunting songs and majesty of flight to dazzling plumage and mating rituals, bird watchers - both amateurs and professionals - have marveled for centuries at their considerable adaptations. Now, we are offered a special treat with the publication of a series of papers in dedicated issues of Science, Genome Biology and GigaScience (which also included pre-publication data release). These present the successful beginnings of an international interdisciplinary venture, the Avian Phylogenomics Project that lets us view, through a genomics lens, modern bird species and the evolutionary events that produced them.
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