Dense sampling of bird diversity increases power of comparative genomics

Feng, Shaohong, Stiller, Josefin, Deng, Yuan, Armstrong, Joel, Fang, Qi, Reeve, Andrew Hart, Xie, Duo, Chen, Guangji, Guo, Chunxue, Faircloth, Brant C., Petersen, Bent, Wang, Zongji, Zhou, Qi, Diekhans, Mark, Chen, Wanjun, Andreu-Sánchez, Sergio, Margaryan, Ashot, Howard, Jason Travis, Parent, Carole, Pacheco, George, Sinding, Mikkel-Holger S., Puetz, Lara, Cavill, Emily, Ribeiro, Ângela M., Eckhart, Leopold, Fjeldså, Jon, Hosner, Peter A., Brumfield, Robb T., Christidis, Les, Bertelsen, Mads F., Sicheritz-Ponten, Thomas, Tietze, Dieter Thomas, Robertson, Bruce C., Song, Gang, Borgia, Gerald, Claramunt, Santiago, Lovette, Irby J., Cowen, Saul J., Njoroge, Peter, Dumbacher, John Philip, Ryder, Oliver A., Fuchs, Jérôme, Bunce, Michael, Burt, David W., Cracraft, Joel, Meng, Guanliang, Hackett, Shannon J., Ryan, Peter G., Jønsson, Knud Andreas, Jamieson, Ian G., Da Fonseca, Rute R., Braun, Edward L., Houde, Peter, Mirarab, Siavash, Suh, Alexander ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-8979-9992, Hansson, Bengt, Ponnikas, Suvi, Sigeman, Hanna, Stervander, Martin, Frandsen, Paul B., Van Der Zwan, Henriette, Van Der Sluis, Rencia, Visser, Carina, Balakrishnan, Christopher N., Clark, Andrew G., Fitzpatrick, John W., Bowman, Reed, Chen, Nancy, Cloutier, Alison, Sackton, Timothy B., Edwards, Scott V., Foote, Dustin J., Shakya, Subir B., Sheldon, Frederick H., Vignal, Alain, Soares, André E. R., Shapiro, Beth, González-Solís, Jacob, Ferrer-Obiol, Joan, Rozas, Julio, Riutort, Marta, Tigano, Anna, Friesen, Vicki, Dalén, Love, Urrutia, Araxi O., Székely, Tamás, Liu, Yang, Campana, Michael G., Corvelo, André, Fleischer, Robert C., Rutherford, Kim M., Gemmell, Neil J., Dussex, Nicolas, Mouritsen, Henrik, Thiele, Nadine, Delmore, Kira, Liedvogel, Miriam, Franke, Andre, Hoeppner, Marc P., Krone, Oliver, Fudickar, Adam M., Milá, Borja, Ketterson, Ellen D., Fidler, Andrew Eric, Friis, Guillermo, Parody-Merino, Ángela M., Battley, Phil F., Cox, Murray P., Lima, Nicholas Costa Barroso, Prosdocimi, Francisco, Parchman, Thomas Lee, Schlinger, Barney A., Loiselle, Bette A., Blake, John G., Lim, Haw Chuan, Day, Lainy B., Fuxjager, Matthew J., Baldwin, Maude W., Braun, Michael J., Wirthlin, Morgan, Dikow, Rebecca B., Ryder, T. Brandt, Camenisch, Glauco, Keller, Lukas F., Dacosta, Jeffrey M., Hauber, Mark E., Louder, Matthew I. M., Witt, Christopher C., Mcguire, Jimmy A., Mudge, Joann, Megna, Libby C., Carling, Matthew D., Wang, Biao, Taylor, Scott A., Del-Rio, Glaucia, Aleixo, Alexandre, Vasconcelos, Ana Tereza Ribeiro, Mello, Claudio V., Weir, Jason T., Haussler, David, Li, Qiye, Yang, Huanming, Wang, Jian, Lei, Fumin, Rahbek, Carsten, Gilbert, M. Thomas P., Graves, Gary R., Jarvis, Erich D., Paten, Benedict and Zhang, Guojie (2020) Dense sampling of bird diversity increases power of comparative genomics. Nature, 587 (7833). pp. 252-257. ISSN 0028-0836

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Abstract

Whole-genome sequencing projects are increasingly populating the tree of life and characterizing biodiversity 1–4. Sparse taxon sampling has previously been proposed to confound phylogenetic inference 5, and captures only a fraction of the genomic diversity. Here we report a substantial step towards the dense representation of avian phylogenetic and molecular diversity, by analysing 363 genomes from 92.4% of bird families—including 267 newly sequenced genomes produced for phase II of the Bird 10,000 Genomes (B10K) Project. We use this comparative genome dataset in combination with a pipeline that leverages a reference-free whole-genome alignment to identify orthologous regions in greater numbers than has previously been possible and to recognize genomic novelties in particular bird lineages. The densely sampled alignment provides a single-base-pair map of selection, has more than doubled the fraction of bases that are confidently predicted to be under conservation and reveals extensive patterns of weak selection in predominantly non-coding DNA. Our results demonstrate that increasing the diversity of genomes used in comparative studies can reveal more shared and lineage-specific variation, and improve the investigation of genomic characteristics. We anticipate that this genomic resource will offer new perspectives on evolutionary processes in cross-species comparative analyses and assist in efforts to conserve species.

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Additional Information: Author Correction at: 10.1038/s41586-021-03473-8
Faculty \ School: Faculty of Science > School of Biological Sciences
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Date Deposited: 21 Nov 2020 00:50
Last Modified: 05 Apr 2024 09:30
URI: https://ueaeprints.uea.ac.uk/id/eprint/77746
DOI: 10.1038/s41586-020-2873-9

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