Sentences with phrase «avian genome»

Comparative genomics reveals insights into avian genome evolution and adaptation.

These include two flagship papers: one exploiting genomic - scale data to generate a highly supported avian order phylogeny that resolves many debates on the timing and topology of their radiation; the other a comparative genomic analysis exploring avian genome evolution and the genetic basis of complex traits.

This total evidence nucleotide data set comprised ~ 41.8 million bp (table S3 and SM4), representing ~ 3.5 % of an average avian genome.

Further exploring data amount, we used the assembled ~ 1.1 - billion - bp chicken genome (40) as a reference to generate a 322 - million - bp MULTIZ alignment of putatively orthologous genome regions across all species, comprising ~ 30 % of an average assembled avian genome and corresponding to the maximal orthologous sequence obtainable across all orders under our homology criteria (SM3).

Brazilian Avian Genome Consortium (CNPq / FAPESPA - SISBIO Aves), Federal University of Para, Belem, Para, Brazil.

While Jarvis and Genome 10K were deciding which avian genomes to sequence, with Jarvis making sure the list included vocal learners and species believed to be their close relatives, they learned about another collaboration in the works led by Guojie Zhang of Chinese sequencing giant BGI and University of Copenhagen evolutionary biologist Tom Gilbert.

The resulting data set consisted of 45 avian genomes sequenced in part for this project [48 when including previously published species (40 — 42)-RSB- and three nonavian reptiles [American alligator, green sea turtle, and green anole lizard (43)-RSB-(table S1), with details reported in (44 — 52).

To address these challenges, we generated a uniform reannotation of the protein - coding genes for all avian genomes based on synteny in chicken and zebra finch (SM2).

An alternative possibility is that the associations of ecology and / or life history are related to convergent exon - coding mutations for those traits in avian genomes (89, 90).

We test this hypothesis through phylogenetic analysis on 48 avian genomes we collected or assembled, representing all commonly accepted extant neognath orders (36, 37) and two palaeognaths, with several nonavian reptiles and human as outgroups.

Professor Griffin and the other leaders of the research team — Kent colleague Dr Michael Romanov as well as Dr Denis Larkin and Dr Marta Farré from the Royal Veterinary College, University of London — studied data from a total of 21 avian genomes and one reptile species.

Greenwold, graduate student Weier Bao and Sawyer analyzed the avian genomes and published an accompanying paper in BMC Evolutionary Biology that shows correlations between the number of beta - keratin gene copies and the birds» lifestyles.

Dr. Soares currently works on avian genomes and research at the National Laboratory of Bioinformatics at the Laboratório Nacional de Computação Científica, Petrópolis, Rio de Janeiro.

Not exact matches

A few that pop to mind are the Coconino Sandstone, the meandering / lateral channels in the Grand Canyon, the progressive order of the fossil record (complete with a pre-hominid through hominid progression), forms which bear features bridging the specially - created kinds (i.e. fish with tetrapod features, reptiles with mammalian features, reptiles with avian features, etc), the presence of anomalous morphological / genetic features (e.g. the recurrent laryngeal nerve, male nip - ples, the presence of a defunct gene for egg - yolk production in our own placental mammal genomes), etc, etc..

So even though some of the leaders of the 2014 avian tree effort launched B10K, a project aiming to eventually sequence the whole genomes of all 10,560 bird species and from there build «the grand tree,» some bird researchers decided not to wait.

In 2014, biologists published an avian tree based on the sequences of whole genomes of about 40 species.

«Genome - wide data help identify an avian species - level lineage that is morphologically and vocally cryptic,» appears in the journal, Molecular Phylogenetics and Evolution.

«To our knowledge this is the longest genome sequence with the highest quality ever obtained for an extinct avian species,» Hung and his colleagues wrote of the achievement.

Findings of the study gave been published in a paper entitled «Ground tit genome reveals avian adaptation to living at high altitudes in the Tibetan plateau» in the journal Nature Communications.

The duck genome and transcriptome provide insight into an avian influenza virus reservoir species

The TENT contradicted some relationships in avian phylogenies generated from morphological characters (15), DNA - DNA hybridization (24), and mitochondrial genomes (14, 18)(Figs. 2, fig.

For ~ 13,000 (low - coverage genomes) to ~ 18,000 (high - coverage genomes) annotated genes across avian species (44), phylomeDB inferred orthologs for 94.58 % of them and these agreed with the synteny - based orthology of the 8251 protein - coding genes of the TENT by 93 %.

After painstakingly piecing together the genome of the extinct strain, a team led by virologist Jeffery Taubenberger, then at the Armed Forces Institute of Pathology in Washington, D.C., concluded in 2005 that the virus most closely resembled viruses of avian origin; the team suggested it had become transmissible between humans after a couple of key changes (Science, 7 October 2005, p. 28).

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.

The Kent research is part of a study by a consortium of leading scientists into avian or bird genomes, which tell a story of species evolution.

«As you look at the [platypus] genome, effectively what you've got is a patchwork: places that look a bit more avian, places that look a bit reptilian, and places that look a bit mammalian,» says Mark Batzer, a geneticist at Louisiana State University in Baton Rouge and co-author of the Nature study.

To study evolution across a major vertebrate class, dissect the genomics of complex traits, and resolve a centuries - old debate on the avian species tree, we formed a consortium focused on the sequencing and analyses of at least one genome per avian order.

The resulting data set of 48 consistently annotated bird genomes spans 32 of the 35 recently proposed avian orders, * including all 30 neognath orders, and thus represents a wide range of avian evolutionary diversity.

The international group of researchers analyzed the genomes of 48 avian species that represent the evolutionary history of modern birds and compared them to many other vertebrates to find DNA sequences specific to avians.

Tohoku University researchers and their international collaborators compared the genomes of 48 avian species with other vertebrates to identify genetic sequences specific only to birds.

With about 50 bird genomes sequenced and «The birth of birds» selected as one of the breakthroughs of the year in 2014 by Science, the avian model systems field is moving faster toward a new cross-discipline integration.

Current research shows that the genomes between avian species have much less copy number variants than do those of mammals.