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Guojie Zhang1, Cai Li2, Qiye Li2, Bo Li3, Denis M Larkin4, Chul Lee5, Jay F Storz6, Agostinho Antunes7, Matthew J Greenwold8, Robert W Meredith9, Anders Ödeen10, Jie Cui11, Qi Zhou12, Luohao Xu13, Hailin Pan3, Zongji Wang14, Lijun Jin3, Pei Zhang3, Haofu Hu3, Wei Yang3, Jiang Hu3, Jin Xiao3, Zhikai Yang3, Yang Liu3, Qiaolin Xie3, Hao Yu3, Jinmin Lian3, Ping Wen3, Fang Zhang3, Hui Li3, Yongli Zeng3, Zijun Xiong3, Shiping Liu14, Long Zhou3, Zhiyong Huang3, Na An3, Jie Wang15, Qiumei Zheng3, Yingqi Xiong3, Guangbiao Wang3, Bo Wang3, Jingjing Wang3, Yu Fan16, Rute R da Fonseca17, Alonzo Alfaro-Núñez17, Mikkel Schubert17, Ludovic Orlando17, Tobias Mourier17, Jason T Howard18, Ganeshkumar Ganapathy18, Andreas Pfenning18, Osceola Whitney18, Miriam V Rivas18, Erina Hara18, Julia Smith18, Marta Farré4, Jitendra Narayan19, Gancho Slavov19, Michael N Romanov20, Rui Borges7, João Paulo Machado21, Imran Khan7, Mark S Springer22, John Gatesy22, Federico G Hoffmann23, Juan C Opazo24, Olle Håstad25, Roger H Sawyer8, Heebal Kim26, Kyu-Won Kim27, Hyeon Jeong Kim28, Seoae Cho28, Ning Li29, Yinhua Huang30, Michael W Bruford31, Xiangjiang Zhan32, Andrew Dixon33, Mads F Bertelsen34, Elizabeth Derryberry35, Wesley Warren36, Richard K Wilson36, Shengbin Li37, David A Ray38, Richard E Green39, Stephen J O'Brien40, Darren Griffin20, Warren E Johnson41, David Haussler39, Oliver A Ryder42, Eske Willerslev17, Gary R Graves43, Per Alström44, Jon Fjeldså45, David P Mindell46, Scott V Edwards47, Edward L Braun48, Carsten Rahbek49, David W Burt50, Peter Houde51, Yong Zhang3, Huanming Yang52, Jian Wang3, Erich D Jarvis53, M Thomas P Gilbert54, Jun Wang55.
Abstract
Birds are the most species-rich class of tetrapod vertebrates and have wide relevance across many research fields. We explored bird macroevolution using full genomes from 48 avian species representing all major extant clades. The avian genome is principally characterized by its constrained size, which predominantly arose because of lineage-specific erosion of repetitive elements, large segmental deletions, and gene loss. Avian genomes furthermore show a remarkably high degree of evolutionary stasis at the levels of nucleotide sequence, gene synteny, and chromosomal structure. Despite this pattern of conservation, we detected many non-neutral evolutionary changes in protein-coding genes and noncoding regions. These analyses reveal that pan-avian genomic diversity covaries with adaptations to different lifestyles and convergent evolution of traits.Entities:
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Year: 2014 PMID： 25504712 PMCID： PMC4390078 DOI： 10.1126/science.1251385
Source DB: PubMed Journal: Science ISSN： 0036-8075 Impact factor: 47.728