Sentences with phrase «avian phylogenomics»
The research, which formed part of a vast study carried out over the past four years by the international Avian Phylogenomics Consortium, involved the analysis of the whole genome structure of the chicken, turkey, Pekin duck, zebra finch and budgerigar.
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It may come as a surprise, then, to learn that the Duke University professor and Howard Hughes Medical Institute (HHMI) investigator recently made news for co-leading the Avian Phylogenomics Project and co-authoring a 12 December Science paper presenting the most well resolved bird family tree ever assembled.
His involvement in the Avian Phylogenomics Project — which, apart from appearing at first unrelated to his research area, also requires skills and analysis outside his expertise — is an illustration of this ethos in action.