• DOI:10.1126/science.1251385
Corpus ID: 14410644

Comparative genomics reveals insights into avian genome evolution and adaptation

@article{Zhang2014ComparativeGR,
  title={Comparative genomics reveals insights into avian genome evolution and adaptation},
  author={Guo-Jie Zhang and C. Li and Q. Li and Bo Li and D. Larkin and C. Lee and J. F. Storz and A. Antunes and Matthew J. Greenwold and R. Meredith and A. Ödeen and J. Cui and Q. Zhou and L. Xu and Hailin Pan and Zongji Wang and Li-jun Jin and Pei Zhang and Haofu Hu and W. Yang and J. Hu and J. Xiao and Zhikai Yang and Y. Liu and Qiaolin Xie and Hao Yu and J. Lian and Ping Wen and F. Zhang and H. Li and Y. Zeng and Z. Xiong and S. Liu and L. Zhou and Zhiyong Huang and Na An and J. Wang and Qiumei Zheng and Yingqi Xiong and G. Wang and B. Wang and Jingjing Wang and Yinpeng Fan and R. Fonseca and Alonzo Alfaro-N{\'u}{\~n}ez and M. Schubert and L. Orlando and T. Mourier and J. Howard and G. Ganapathy and A. Pfenning and Osceola Whitney and M. Rivas and Erina Hara and Julia Smith. and Marta Farr{\'e} and Jitendra Narayan and G. Slavov and Michael N Romanov and R. Borges and Jo{\~a}o Paulo Machado and I. Khan and M. Springer and J. Gatesy and F. Hoffmann and J. Opazo and O. H{\aa}stad and R. Sawyer and H. Kim and Kyu-Won Kim and H. J. Kim and Seoae Cho and N. Li and Y. Huang and M. Bruford and X. Zhan and A. Dixon and M. Bertelsen and E. Derryberry and W. Warren and R. Wilson and S. Li and D. Ray and R. E. Green and S. O'Brien and D. Griffin and W. Johnson and D. Haussler and O. Ryder and E. Willerslev and G. Graves and P. Alstr{\"o}m and J. Fjelds{\aa} and D. P. Mindell and S. Edwards and E. Braun and C. Rahbek and D. Burt and P. Houde and Y. Zhang and H. Yang and Emanuel Maldonado and E. Jarvis and M. Gilbert},
  journal={Science},
  year={2014},
  volume={346},
  pages={1311 - 1320}
}

Guo-Jie Zhang, C. Li, +103 authors J. Wang

Published 2014

Biology, Medicine

Science

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… CONTINUE READING

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