Browsing by Author "Ellegren, Hans"
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Comparative genomics based on massive parallel transcriptome sequencing reveals patterns of substitution and selection across 10 bird species.
(Mol Ecol, 2010-03)Next-generation sequencing technology provides an attractive means to obtain large-scale sequence data necessary for comparative genomic analysis. To analyse the patterns of mutation rate variation and selection intensity ... -
Dynamic evolution of base composition: causes and consequences in avian phylogenomics.
(Mol Biol Evol, 2011-08)Resolving the phylogenetic relationships among birds is a classical problem in systematics, and this is particularly so when it comes to understanding the relationships among Neoaves. Previous phylogenetic inference of birds ... -
Early Mesozoic Coexistence of Amniotes and Hepadnaviridae
(PLoS Genet, 2014-12-11)<title>Author Summary</title> Viruses are not known to leave physical fossil traces, which makes our understanding of their evolutionary prehistory crucially dependent on the detection of endogenous viruses. Ancient endogenous ... -
Evidence for GC-biased gene conversion as a driver of between-lineage differences in avian base composition.
(Genome Biol, 2014)BACKGROUND: While effective population size (Ne) and life history traits such as generation time are known to impact substitution rates, their potential effects on base composition evolution are less well understood. GC ... -
Obtaining mtDNA genomes from next-generation transcriptome sequencing: a case study on the basal Passerida (Aves: Passeriformes) phylogeny.
(Mol Phylogenet Evol, 2010-10)Classically, the mitochondrial genome is sequenced by a series of amplicons using conserved PCR primers. Here we show how shot-gun transcriptome sequencing can be used to obtain the complete set of protein-coding genes from ... -
Phylogenomic analyses data of the avian phylogenomics project.
(Gigascience, 2015)BACKGROUND: Determining the evolutionary relationships among the major lineages of extant birds has been one of the biggest challenges in systematic biology. To address this challenge, we assembled or collected the genomes ... -
Reconstruction of gross avian genome structure, organization and evolution suggests that the chicken lineage most closely resembles the dinosaur avian ancestor.
(BMC Genomics, 2014-12-11)BACKGROUND: The availability of multiple avian genome sequence assemblies greatly improves our ability to define overall genome organization and reconstruct evolutionary changes. In birds, this has previously been impeded ... -
The genome of a songbird.
(Nature, 2010-04-01)The zebra finch is an important model organism in several fields with unique relevance to human neuroscience. Like other songbirds, the zebra finch communicates through learned vocalizations, an ability otherwise documented ... -
Two Antarctic penguin genomes reveal insights into their evolutionary history and molecular changes related to the Antarctic environment.
(Gigascience, 2014)BACKGROUND: Penguins are flightless aquatic birds widely distributed in the Southern Hemisphere. The distinctive morphological and physiological features of penguins allow them to live an aquatic life, and some of them have ... -
Whole-genome analyses resolve early branches in the tree of life of modern birds.
(Science, 2014-12-12)To better determine the history of modern birds, we performed a genome-scale phylogenetic analysis of 48 species representing all orders of Neoaves using phylogenomic methods created to handle genome-scale data. We recovered ...
