TY - JOUR
T1 - Comparative genomics reveals insights into avian genome evolution and adaptation
AU - Avian Genome Consortium
AU - Correction Zhang, Guojie
AU - Li, Cai
AU - Li, Qiye
AU - Li, Bo
AU - Larkin, Denis M.
AU - Lee, Chul
AU - Storz, Jay F.
AU - Antunes, Agostinho
AU - Greenwold, Matthew J.
AU - Meredith, Robert W.
AU - Ödeen, Anders
AU - Cui, Jie
AU - Zhou, Qi
AU - Xu, Luohao
AU - Pan, Hailin
AU - Wang, Zongji
AU - Jin, Lijun
AU - Zhang, Pei
AU - Hu, Haofu
AU - Yang, Wei
AU - Hu, Jiang
AU - Xiao, Jin
AU - Yang, Zhikai
AU - Liu, Yang
AU - Xie, Qiaolin
AU - Yu, Hao
AU - Lian, Jinmin
AU - Wen, Ping
AU - Zhang, Fang
AU - Li, Hui
AU - Zeng, Yongli
AU - Xiong, Zijun
AU - Liu, Shiping
AU - Zhou, Long
AU - Huang, Zhiyong
AU - An, Na
AU - Wang, Jie
AU - Zheng, Qiumei
AU - Xiong, Yingqi
AU - Wang, Guangbiao
AU - Wang, Bo
AU - Wang, Jingjing
AU - Fan, Yu
AU - Da Fonseca, Rute R.
AU - Alfaro-Núñez, Alonzo
AU - Schubert, Mikkel
AU - Orlando, Ludovic
AU - Mourier, Tobias
AU - Howard, Jason T.
AU - Velazquez, Amhed Missael Vargas
PY - 2014/12/12
Y1 - 2014/12/12
N2 - 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.
AB - 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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U2 - 10.1126/science.1251385
DO - 10.1126/science.1251385
M3 - Article
C2 - 25504712
AN - SCOPUS:84917678595
SN - 0036-8075
VL - 346
SP - 1311
EP - 1320
JO - SCIENCE
JF - SCIENCE
IS - 6215
ER -