The advent of the next generation sequencing (NGS) made sequencing and scaffolding of
an entire animal genome a routine procedure. As the result we face a fast increase in the …

The recent availability of whole genome assemblies for multiple bird species has changed
the way we can detect and describe patterns of avian genome evolution. Coupled with …

There has been a recent explosion in avian genomics. In December 2014 the Beijing
Genomics Institute in collaboration with a number of labs worldwide (including Kent) …

Most recent initiatives to sequence and assemble new species' genomes de novo fail to
achieve the ultimate endpoint to produce contigs, each representing one whole …

Affordable, high-throughput DNA sequencing has accelerated the pace of genome
assembly over the past decade. Genome assemblies from high-throughput, short-read …

In birds, genome is organised into several large chromosomes (macrochromosomes) and
many smaller chromosomes (microchromosomes) that usually constitute about 25 and 75 …

One of the most difficult problems in modern genomics is the assembly of full-length
chromosomes using next generation sequencing (NGS) data. To address this problem, we …

Whole chromosomes (and sub-chromosomal homologous synteny blocks (HSBs)) have
great significance in molecular studies of genome evolution. In birds, our ability to define …

Background Reconstruction of ancestral karyotypes is critical for our understanding of
genome evolution, allowing for the identification of the gross changes that shaped extant …

The large project of sequencing and assembly of the bovine genome leveraged the many
resources available and provided the pivotal substrate for research in the future. The …