Phylogenomic analyses data of the avian phylogenomics project.

ABSTRACT:

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 of 48 avian species spanning most orders of birds, including all Neognathae and two of the five Palaeognathae orders. We used these genomes to construct a genome-scale avian phylogenetic tree and perform comparative genomic analyses.

Findings

Here we present the datasets associated with the phylogenomic analyses, which include sequence alignment files consisting of nucleotides, amino acids, indels, and transposable elements, as well as tree files containing gene trees and species trees. Inferring an accurate phylogeny required generating: 1) A well annotate

SUBMITTER: Jarvis ED 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC4349222 | biostudies-literature | 2015

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature