title: The evolution of animal genomes.
abstract: Genome sequences are now available for hundreds of species sampled across the animal phylogeny, bringing key features of animal genome evolution into sharper focus. The field of animal evolutionary genomics has focused on identifying and classifying the diversity genomic features, reconstructing the history of evolutionary changes in animal genomes, and testing hypotheses about the evolutionary relationships of animals. The grand challenges moving forward are to connect evolutionary changes in genomes with particular evolutionary changes in phenotypes, and to determine which changes are driven by selection. This will require far greater genome sampling both across and within species, extensive phenotype data, a well resolved animal phylogeny, and advances in comparative methods.
authors.affiliation: Department of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology, Brown University, 80 Waterman St., Providence, RI 02906, USA. Electronic address: casey_dunn@brown.edu.
authors.forename: Casey W
authors.initials: CW
authors.lastname: Dunn
authors.affiliation: Whitney Laboratory for Marine Bioscience, University of Florida, 9505 Ocean Shore Blvd., St Augustine, FL 32080, USA; Department of Biology, University of Florida, Gainesville, FL 32611, USA.
authors.forename: Joseph F
authors.initials: JF
authors.lastname: Ryan
mesh_terms: D000818:Animals; D044822:Biodiversity; D005075:Biological Evolution; D019143:Evolution, Molecular; D014644:Genetic Variation / Q000235:genetics*; D016678:Genome / Q000235:genetics*; D023281:Genomics; D010641:Phenotype; D010802:Phylogeny