title: The birds of Genome10K.
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.
authors: Theodosius Dobzhansky Center for Genome Bioinformatics, St. Petersburg State University, St. Petersburg, 199004 Russia ; Oceanographic Center, Nova Southeastern University, Ft Lauderdale, FL 33004 USA.
authors: Stephen J
authors: SJ
authors: OBrien
authors: Department of Biomolecular Engineering, University of California, Santa Cruz, CA 95064 USA.
authors: David
authors: D
authors: Haussler
authors: San Diego Zoo Institute for Conservation Research, Escondido, CA 92027 USA.
authors: Oliver
authors: O
authors: Ryder
keywords: Aves; Avian; Avian phylogenomics project; Birds; Genome10K; Genomics; Phylogenomics; Vertebrate