UC Santa Cruz, Genom Inst, Santa Cruz, CA 95064 USA.
Fang, Qi (författare)
BGI Shenzhen, China Natl GeneBank, Shenzhen, Peoples R China.;BGI Shenzhen, Shenzhen, Peoples R China.;Univ Copenhagen, Sect Ecol & Evolut, Dept Biol, Villum Ctr Biodivers Genom, Copenhagen, Denmark.
Reeve, Andrew Hart (författare)
Univ Copenhagen, Nat Hist Museum Denmark, Copenhagen, Denmark.
Xie, Duo (författare)
BGI Shenzhen, China Natl GeneBank, Shenzhen, Peoples R China.;BGI Shenzhen, Shenzhen, Peoples R China.;Univ Chinese Acad Sci, BGI Educ Ctr, Shenzhen, Peoples R China.
Chen, Guangji (författare)
BGI Shenzhen, China Natl GeneBank, Shenzhen, Peoples R China.;BGI Shenzhen, Shenzhen, Peoples R China.;Univ Chinese Acad Sci, BGI Educ Ctr, Shenzhen, Peoples R China.
Guo, Chunxue (författare)
BGI Shenzhen, China Natl GeneBank, Shenzhen, Peoples R China.;BGI Shenzhen, Shenzhen, Peoples R China.
Faircloth, Brant C. (författare)
Louisiana State Univ, Dept Biol Sci, Baton Rouge, LA 70803 USA.;Louisiana State Univ, Museum Nat Sci, Baton Rouge, LA 70803 USA.
Petersen, Bent (författare)
Fac Sci Appl, Ctr Excellence Om Driven Computat Biodiscovery CO, AIMST Univ, Bedong, Kedah, Malaysia.;Univ Copenhagen, GLOBE Inst, Fac Hlth & Med Sci, Sect Evolutionary Genom, Copenhagen, Denmark.
Wang, Zongji (författare)
BGI Shenzhen, China Natl GeneBank, Shenzhen, Peoples R China.;BGI Shenzhen, Shenzhen, Peoples R China.;Zhejiang Univ, Life Sci Inst, MOE Lab Biosyst Homeostasis & Protect, Hangzhou, Peoples R China.;Univ Vienna, Dept Neurosci & Dev Biol, Vienna, Austria.
Zhou, Qi (författare)
Zhejiang Univ, Life Sci Inst, MOE Lab Biosyst Homeostasis & Protect, Hangzhou, Peoples R China.;Univ Vienna, Dept Neurosci & Dev Biol, Vienna, Austria.;Zhejiang Univ, Sch Med, Affiliated Hosp 2, Ctr Reprod Med, Hangzhou, Peoples R China.
Diekhans, Mark (författare)
UC Santa Cruz, Genom Inst, Santa Cruz, CA 95064 USA.
Chen, Wanjun (författare)
BGI Shenzhen, China Natl GeneBank, Shenzhen, Peoples R China.;BGI Shenzhen, Shenzhen, Peoples R China.
New Mexico State Univ, Dept Biol, Las Cruces, NM 88003 USA.
Mirarab, Siavash (författare)
Univ Calif San Diego, Dept Elect & Comp Engn, La Jolla, CA 92093 USA.
Suh, Alexander (författare)
Uppsala universitet,Evolutionsbiologi,Science for Life Laboratory, SciLifeLab,Systematisk biologi,Univ East Anglia, Sch Biol Sci, Norwich, Norfolk, England.
Hansson, Bengt (författare)
Lund University,Lunds universitet,MEMEG,Biologiska institutionen,Naturvetenskapliga fakulteten,Könsskillnadernas genetik,Forskargrupper vid Lunds universitet,Molekylär ekologi och evolution,Department of Biology,Faculty of Science,Genetics of Sex Differences,Lund University Research Groups,Molecular Ecology and Evolution Lab
Ponnikas, Suvi (författare)
Lund University,Lunds universitet,MEMEG,Biologiska institutionen,Naturvetenskapliga fakulteten,Department of Biology,Faculty of Science
Sigeman, Hanna (författare)
Lund University,Lunds universitet,MEMEG,Biologiska institutionen,Naturvetenskapliga fakulteten,Könsskillnadernas genetik,Forskargrupper vid Lunds universitet,Molekylär ekologi och evolution,Department of Biology,Faculty of Science,Genetics of Sex Differences,Lund University Research Groups,Molecular Ecology and Evolution Lab
Stervander, Martin (författare)
Lund University,Lunds universitet,MEMEG,Biologiska institutionen,Naturvetenskapliga fakulteten,Department of Biology,Faculty of Science,University of Oregon
Frandsen, Paul B. (författare)
Brigham Young Univ, Dept Plant & Wildlife Sci, Provo, UT 84602 USA.;Smithsonian Inst, Data Sci Lab, Off Chief Informat Officer, Washington, DC 20560 USA.
van der Zwan, Henriette (författare)
North West Univ, Focus Area Human Metabol, Potchefstroom, South Africa.
van der Sluis, Rencia (författare)
North West Univ, Focus Area Human Metabol, Potchefstroom, South Africa.
Visser, Carina (författare)
Univ Pretoria, Dept Anim Sci, Pretoria, South Africa.
Balakrishnan, Christopher N. (författare)
East Carolina Univ, Dept Biol, Greenville, NC 27858 USA.
Clark, Andrew G. (författare)
Cornell Univ, Dept Mol Biol & Genet, Ithaca, NY USA.
Fitzpatrick, John W. (författare)
Cornell Univ, Cornell Lab Ornithol, Ithaca, NY USA.
Bowman, Reed (författare)
Archbold Biol Stn, Avian Ecol Program, Venus, FL USA.
Chen, Nancy (författare)
Univ Rochester, Dept Biol, Rochester, NY 14627 USA.
Cloutier, Alison (författare)
Harvard Univ, Dept Organism & Evolutionary Biol, Cambridge, MA 02138 USA.;Harvard Univ, Museum Comparat Zool, Cambridge, MA 02138 USA.
Sackton, Timothy B. (författare)
Harvard Univ, Informat Grp, Cambridge, MA 02138 USA.
Edwards, Scott V. (författare)
Harvard Univ, Dept Organism & Evolutionary Biol, Cambridge, MA 02138 USA.;Harvard Univ, Museum Comparat Zool, Cambridge, MA 02138 USA.
Foote, Dustin J. (författare)
East Carolina Univ, Dept Biol, Greenville, NC 27858 USA.;Sylvan Hts Bird Pk, Scotland Neck, NC USA.
Shakya, Subir B. (författare)
Louisiana State Univ, Dept Biol Sci, Baton Rouge, LA 70803 USA.;Louisiana State Univ, Museum Nat Sci, Baton Rouge, LA 70803 USA.
Sheldon, Frederick H. (författare)
Louisiana State Univ, Dept Biol Sci, Baton Rouge, LA 70803 USA.;Louisiana State Univ, Museum Nat Sci, Baton Rouge, LA 70803 USA.
Vignal, Alain (författare)
Univ Toulouse, GenPhySE, INRA, INP ENVT,INPT, Castanet Tolosan, France.
Soares, Andre E. R. (författare)
Lab Nacl Computac Cientif, Petropolis, RJ, Brazil.;Univ Calif Santa Cruz, Dept Ecol & Evolutionary Biol, Santa Cruz, CA 95064 USA.
Shapiro, Beth (författare)
Univ Calif Santa Cruz, Dept Ecol & Evolutionary Biol, Santa Cruz, CA 95064 USA.;Univ Calif Santa Cruz, Howard Hughes Med Inst, Santa Cruz, CA 95064 USA.
Boston Coll, Dept Biol, Chestnut Hill, MA 02167 USA.
Hauber, Mark E. (författare)
Univ Illinois, Sch Integrat Biol, Dept Evolut Ecol & Behav, Urbana, IL USA.
Louder, Matthew I. M. (författare)
East Carolina Univ, Dept Biol, Greenville, NC 27858 USA.;Univ Illinois, Sch Integrat Biol, Dept Evolut Ecol & Behav, Urbana, IL USA.;Univ Tokyo, Int Res Ctr Neurointelligence, Tokyo, Japan.
Witt, Christopher C. (författare)
Univ New Mexico, Dept Biol, Museum SouthWestern Biol, Albuquerque, NM 87131 USA.
McGuire, Jimmy A. (författare)
Univ Calif Berkeley, Dept Integrat Biol, Museum Vertebrate Zool, Berkeley, CA 94720 USA.
Mudge, Joann (författare)
Natl Ctr Genome Resources, Santa Fe, NM USA.
Megna, Libby C. (författare)
Univ Wyoming, Dept Zool & Physiol, Laramie, WY 82071 USA.
Carling, Matthew D. (författare)
Univ Wyoming, Dept Zool & Physiol, Laramie, WY 82071 USA.
Whole-genome sequencing projects are increasingly populating the tree of life and characterizing biodiversity(1-4). Sparse taxon sampling has previously been proposed to confound phylogenetic inference(5), and captures only a fraction of the genomic diversity. Here we report a substantial step towards the dense representation of avian phylogenetic and molecular diversity, by analysing 363 genomes from 92.4% of bird families-including 267 newly sequenced genomes produced for phase II of the Bird 10,000 Genomes (B10K) Project. We use this comparative genome dataset in combination with a pipeline that leverages a reference-free whole-genome alignment to identify orthologous regions in greater numbers than has previously been possible and to recognize genomic novelties in particular bird lineages. The densely sampled alignment provides a single-base-pair map of selection, has more than doubled the fraction of bases that are confidently predicted to be under conservation and reveals extensive patterns of weak selection in predominantly non-coding DNA. Our results demonstrate that increasing the diversity of genomes used in comparative studies can reveal more shared and lineage-specific variation, and improve the investigation of genomic characteristics. We anticipate that this genomic resource will offer new perspectives on evolutionary processes in cross-species comparative analyses and assist in efforts to conserve species. A dataset of the genomes of 363 species from the Bird 10,000 Genomes Project shows increased power to detect shared and lineage-specific variation, demonstrating the importance of phylogenetically diverse taxon sampling in whole-genome sequencing.