The origin, distribution, and function of biological diversity are fundamental themes of
ecology and evolutionary biology. Research on birds has played a major role in the history …

The discovery of genetic variation and the assembly of genome sequences are both
inextricably linked to advances in DNA-sequencing technology. Short-read massively …

High-quality and complete reference genome assemblies are fundamental for the
application of genomics to biology, disease, and biodiversity conservation. However, such …

Whole-genome sequencing projects are increasingly populating the tree of life and
characterizing biodiversity–. Sparse taxon sampling has previously been proposed to …

New genome assemblies have been arriving at a rapidly increasing pace, thanks to
decreases in sequencing costs and improvements in third-generation sequencing …

INTRODUCTION For more than a century, the avian forebrain has been a riddle for
neuroscientists. Birds demonstrate exceptional cognitive abilities comparable to those of …

Egg-laying mammals (monotremes) are the only extant mammalian outgroup to therians
(marsupial and eutherian animals) and provide key insights into mammalian evolution 1, 2 …

The RefSeq project at the National Center for Biotechnology Information (NCBI) maintains
and curates a publicly available database of annotated genomic, transcript, and protein …

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 …

We present three clustered protein sequence databases, Uniclust90, Uniclust50, Uniclust30
and three databases of multiple sequence alignments (MSAs), Uniboost10, Uniboost20 and …