The birds of Genome10K
- Authors
- Type
- Published Article
- Journal
- GigaScience
- Publisher
- Oxford University Press
- Publication Date
- Dec 11, 2014
- Volume
- 3
- Issue
- 1
- Identifiers
- DOI: 10.1186/2047-217X-3-32
- Source
- Springer Nature
- Keywords
- License
- Green
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.