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1. Dense sampling of bird diversity increases power of comparative genomics (vol 587, pg 252, 2020)

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Feng, S, Stiller, J, Deng, Y, Armstrong, J, Fang, Q, Reeve, AH, Xie, D, Chen, G, Guo, C, Faircloth, BC, Petersen, B, Wang, Z, Zhou, Q, Diekhans, M, Chen, W, Andreu-Sanchez, S, Margaryan, A, Howard, JT, Parent, C, Pacheco, G, Sinding, M-HS, Puetz, L, Cavill, E, Ribeiro, AM, Eckhart, L, Fjeldsa, J, Hosner, PA, Brumfield, RT, Christidis, L, Bertelsen, MF, Sicheritz-Ponten, T, Tietze, DT, Robertson, BC, Song, G, Borgia, G, Claramunt, S, Lovette, IJ, Cowen, SJ, Njoroge, P, Dumbacher, JP, Ryder, OA, Fuchs, J, Bunce, M, Burt, DW, Cracraft, J, Meng, G, Hackett, SJ, Ryan, PG, Jonsson, KA, Jamieson, IG, da Fonseca, RR, Braun, EL, Houde, P, Mirarab, S, Suh, A, Hansson, B, Ponnikas, S, Sigeman, H, Stervander, M, Frandsen, PB, van der Zwan, H, van der Sluis, R, Visser, C, Balakrishnan, CN, Clark, AG, Fitzpatrick, JW, Bowman, R, Chen, N, Cloutier, A, Sackton, TB, Edwards, SV, Foote, DJ, Shakya, SB, Sheldon, FH, Vignal, A, Soares, AER, Shapiro, B, Gonzalez-Solis, J, Ferrer-Obiol, J, Rozas, J, Riutort, M, Tigano, A, Friesen, V, Dalen, L, Urrutia, AO, Szekely, T, Liu, Y, Campana, MG, Corvelo, A, Fleischer, RC, Rutherford, KM, Gemmell, NJ, Dussex, N, Mouritsen, H, Thiele, N, Delmore, K, Liedvogel, M, Franke, A, Hoeppner, MP, Krone, O, Fudickar, AM, Mila, B, Ketterson, ED, Fidler, AE, Friis, G, Parody-Merino, AM, Battley, PF, Cox, MP, Lima, NCB, Prosdocimi, F, Parchman, TL, Schlinger, BA, Loiselle, BA, Blake, JG, Lim, HC, Day, LB, Fuxjager, MJ, Baldwin, MW, Braun, MJ, Wirthlin, M, Dikow, RB, Ryder, TB, Camenisch, G, Keller, LF, DaCosta, JM, Hauber, ME, Louder, MIM, Witt, CC, McGuire, JA, Mudge, J, Megna, LC, Carling, MD, Wang, B, Taylor, SA, Del-Rio, G, Aleixo, A, Vasconcelos, ATR, Mello, CV, Weir, JT, Haussler, D, Li, Q, Yang, H, Wang, J, Lei, F, Rahbek, C, Gilbert, MTP, Graves, GR, Jarvis, ED, Paten, B, Zhang, G, Feng, S, Stiller, J, Deng, Y, Armstrong, J, Fang, Q, Reeve, AH, Xie, D, Chen, G, Guo, C, Faircloth, BC, Petersen, B, Wang, Z, Zhou, Q, Diekhans, M, Chen, W, Andreu-Sanchez, S, Margaryan, A, Howard, JT, Parent, C, Pacheco, G, Sinding, M-HS, Puetz, L, Cavill, E, Ribeiro, AM, Eckhart, L, Fjeldsa, J, Hosner, PA, Brumfield, RT, Christidis, L, Bertelsen, MF, Sicheritz-Ponten, T, Tietze, DT, Robertson, BC, Song, G, Borgia, G, Claramunt, S, Lovette, IJ, Cowen, SJ, Njoroge, P, Dumbacher, JP, Ryder, OA, Fuchs, J, Bunce, M, Burt, DW, Cracraft, J, Meng, G, Hackett, SJ, Ryan, PG, Jonsson, KA, Jamieson, IG, da Fonseca, RR, Braun, EL, Houde, P, Mirarab, S, Suh, A, Hansson, B, Ponnikas, S, Sigeman, H, Stervander, M, Frandsen, PB, van der Zwan, H, van der Sluis, R, Visser, C, Balakrishnan, CN, Clark, AG, Fitzpatrick, JW, Bowman, R, Chen, N, Cloutier, A, Sackton, TB, Edwards, SV, Foote, DJ, Shakya, SB, Sheldon, FH, Vignal, A, Soares, AER, Shapiro, B, Gonzalez-Solis, J, Ferrer-Obiol, J, Rozas, J, Riutort, M, Tigano, A, Friesen, V, Dalen, L, Urrutia, AO, Szekely, T, Liu, Y, Campana, MG, Corvelo, A, Fleischer, RC, Rutherford, KM, Gemmell, NJ, Dussex, N, Mouritsen, H, Thiele, N, Delmore, K, Liedvogel, M, Franke, A, Hoeppner, MP, Krone, O, Fudickar, AM, Mila, B, Ketterson, ED, Fidler, AE, Friis, G, Parody-Merino, AM, Battley, PF, Cox, MP, Lima, NCB, Prosdocimi, F, Parchman, TL, Schlinger, BA, Loiselle, BA, Blake, JG, Lim, HC, Day, LB, Fuxjager, MJ, Baldwin, MW, Braun, MJ, Wirthlin, M, Dikow, RB, Ryder, TB, Camenisch, G, Keller, LF, DaCosta, JM, Hauber, ME, Louder, MIM, Witt, CC, McGuire, JA, Mudge, J, Megna, LC, Carling, MD, Wang, B, Taylor, SA, Del-Rio, G, Aleixo, A, Vasconcelos, ATR, Mello, CV, Weir, JT, Haussler, D, Li, Q, Yang, H, Wang, J, Lei, F, Rahbek, C, Gilbert, MTP, Graves, GR, Jarvis, ED, Paten, B, and Zhang, G

Abstract

A Correction to this paper has been published: https://doi.org/10.1038/s41586-021-03473-8.

Published
2021

2. Dense sampling of bird diversity increases power of comparative genomics

Author

Feng, S, Stiller, J, Deng, Y, Armstrong, J, Fang, Q, Reeve, AH, Xie, D, Chen, G, Guo, C, Faircloth, BC, Petersen, B, Wang, Z, Zhou, Q, Diekhans, M, Chen, W, Andreu-Sanchez, S, Margaryan, A, Howard, JT, Parent, C, Pacheco, G, Sinding, M-HS, Puetz, L, Cavill, E, Ribeiro, AM, Eckhart, L, Fjeldsa, J, Hosner, PA, Brumfield, RT, Christidis, L, Bertelsen, MF, Sicheritz-Ponten, T, Tietze, DT, Robertson, BC, Song, G, Borgia, G, Claramunt, S, Lovette, IJ, Cowen, SJ, Njoroge, P, Dumbacher, JP, Ryder, OA, Fuchs, J, Bunce, M, Burt, DW, Cracraft, J, Meng, G, Hackett, SJ, Ryan, PG, Jonsson, KA, Jamieson, IG, da Fonseca, RR, Braun, EL, Houde, P, Mirarab, S, Suh, A, Hansson, B, Ponnikas, S, Sigeman, H, Stervander, M, Frandsen, PB, van der Zwan, H, van der Sluis, R, Visser, C, Balakrishnan, CN, Clark, AG, Fitzpatrick, JW, Bowman, R, Chen, N, Cloutier, A, Sackton, TB, Edwards, SV, Foote, DJ, Shakya, SB, Sheldon, FH, Vignal, A, Soares, AER, Shapiro, B, Gonzalez-Solis, J, Ferrer-Obiol, J, Rozas, J, Riutort, M, Tigano, A, Friesen, V, Dalen, L, Urrutia, AO, Szekely, T, Liu, Y, Campana, MG, Corvelo, A, Fleischer, RC, Rutherford, KM, Gemmell, NJ, Dussex, N, Mouritsen, H, Thiele, N, Delmore, K, Liedvogel, M, Franke, A, Hoeppner, MP, Krone, O, Fudickar, AM, Mila, B, Ketterson, ED, Fidler, AE, Friis, G, Parody-Merino, AM, Battley, PF, Cox, MP, Lima, NCB, Prosdocimi, F, Parchman, TL, Schlinger, BA, Loiselle, BA, Blake, JG, Lim, HC, Day, LB, Fuxjager, MJ, Baldwin, MW, Braun, MJ, Wirthlin, M, Dikow, RB, Ryder, TB, Camenisch, G, Keller, LF, DaCosta, JM, Hauber, ME, Louder, MIM, Witt, CC, McGuire, JA, Mudge, J, Megna, LC, Carling, MD, Wang, B, Taylor, SA, Del-Rio, G, Aleixo, A, Vasconcelos, ATR, Mello, CV, Weir, JT, Haussler, D, Li, Q, Yang, H, Wang, J, Lei, F, Rahbek, C, Gilbert, MTP, Graves, GR, Jarvis, ED, Paten, B, Zhang, G, Feng, S, Stiller, J, Deng, Y, Armstrong, J, Fang, Q, Reeve, AH, Xie, D, Chen, G, Guo, C, Faircloth, BC, Petersen, B, Wang, Z, Zhou, Q, Diekhans, M, Chen, W, Andreu-Sanchez, S, Margaryan, A, Howard, JT, Parent, C, Pacheco, G, Sinding, M-HS, Puetz, L, Cavill, E, Ribeiro, AM, Eckhart, L, Fjeldsa, J, Hosner, PA, Brumfield, RT, Christidis, L, Bertelsen, MF, Sicheritz-Ponten, T, Tietze, DT, Robertson, BC, Song, G, Borgia, G, Claramunt, S, Lovette, IJ, Cowen, SJ, Njoroge, P, Dumbacher, JP, Ryder, OA, Fuchs, J, Bunce, M, Burt, DW, Cracraft, J, Meng, G, Hackett, SJ, Ryan, PG, Jonsson, KA, Jamieson, IG, da Fonseca, RR, Braun, EL, Houde, P, Mirarab, S, Suh, A, Hansson, B, Ponnikas, S, Sigeman, H, Stervander, M, Frandsen, PB, van der Zwan, H, van der Sluis, R, Visser, C, Balakrishnan, CN, Clark, AG, Fitzpatrick, JW, Bowman, R, Chen, N, Cloutier, A, Sackton, TB, Edwards, SV, Foote, DJ, Shakya, SB, Sheldon, FH, Vignal, A, Soares, AER, Shapiro, B, Gonzalez-Solis, J, Ferrer-Obiol, J, Rozas, J, Riutort, M, Tigano, A, Friesen, V, Dalen, L, Urrutia, AO, Szekely, T, Liu, Y, Campana, MG, Corvelo, A, Fleischer, RC, Rutherford, KM, Gemmell, NJ, Dussex, N, Mouritsen, H, Thiele, N, Delmore, K, Liedvogel, M, Franke, A, Hoeppner, MP, Krone, O, Fudickar, AM, Mila, B, Ketterson, ED, Fidler, AE, Friis, G, Parody-Merino, AM, Battley, PF, Cox, MP, Lima, NCB, Prosdocimi, F, Parchman, TL, Schlinger, BA, Loiselle, BA, Blake, JG, Lim, HC, Day, LB, Fuxjager, MJ, Baldwin, MW, Braun, MJ, Wirthlin, M, Dikow, RB, Ryder, TB, Camenisch, G, Keller, LF, DaCosta, JM, Hauber, ME, Louder, MIM, Witt, CC, McGuire, JA, Mudge, J, Megna, LC, Carling, MD, Wang, B, Taylor, SA, Del-Rio, G, Aleixo, A, Vasconcelos, ATR, Mello, CV, Weir, JT, Haussler, D, Li, Q, Yang, H, Wang, J, Lei, F, Rahbek, C, Gilbert, MTP, Graves, GR, Jarvis, ED, Paten, B, and Zhang, G

Abstract

Whole-genome sequencing projects are increasingly populating the tree of life and characterizing biodiversity1-4. Sparse taxon sampling has previously been proposed to confound phylogenetic inference5, 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.

Published
2020

3. Author Correction: Dense sampling of bird diversity increases power of comparative genomics.

Author

Feng S, Stiller J, Deng Y, Armstrong J, Fang Q, Reeve AH, Xie D, Chen G, Guo C, Faircloth BC, Petersen B, Wang Z, Zhou Q, Diekhans M, Chen W, Andreu-Sánchez S, Margaryan A, Howard JT, Parent C, Pacheco G, Sinding MS, Puetz L, Cavill E, Ribeiro ÂM, Eckhart L, Fjeldså J, Hosner PA, Brumfield RT, Christidis L, Bertelsen MF, Sicheritz-Ponten T, Tietze DT, Robertson BC, Song G, Borgia G, Claramunt S, Lovette IJ, Cowen SJ, Njoroge P, Dumbacher JP, Ryder OA, Fuchs J, Bunce M, Burt DW, Cracraft J, Meng G, Hackett SJ, Ryan PG, Jønsson KA, Jamieson IG, da Fonseca RR, Braun EL, Houde P, Mirarab S, Suh A, Hansson B, Ponnikas S, Sigeman H, Stervander M, Frandsen PB, van der Zwan H, van der Sluis R, Visser C, Balakrishnan CN, Clark AG, Fitzpatrick JW, Bowman R, Chen N, Cloutier A, Sackton TB, Edwards SV, Foote DJ, Shakya SB, Sheldon FH, Vignal A, Soares AER, Shapiro B, González-Solís J, Ferrer-Obiol J, Rozas J, Riutort M, Tigano A, Friesen V, Dalén L, Urrutia AO, Székely T, Liu Y, Campana MG, Corvelo A, Fleischer RC, Rutherford KM, Gemmell NJ, Dussex N, Mouritsen H, Thiele N, Delmore K, Liedvogel M, Franke A, Hoeppner MP, Krone O, Fudickar AM, Milá B, Ketterson ED, Fidler AE, Friis G, Parody-Merino ÁM, Battley PF, Cox MP, Lima NCB, Prosdocimi F, Parchman TL, Schlinger BA, Loiselle BA, Blake JG, Lim HC, Day LB, Fuxjager MJ, Baldwin MW, Braun MJ, Wirthlin M, Dikow RB, Ryder TB, Camenisch G, Keller LF, DaCosta JM, Hauber ME, Louder MIM, Witt CC, McGuire JA, Mudge J, Megna LC, Carling MD, Wang B, Taylor SA, Del-Rio G, Aleixo A, Vasconcelos ATR, Mello CV, Weir JT, Haussler D, Li Q, Yang H, Wang J, Lei F, Rahbek C, Gilbert MTP, Graves GR, Jarvis ED, Paten B, and Zhang G

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2021
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4. Dense sampling of bird diversity increases power of comparative genomics.

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Feng S, Stiller J, Deng Y, Armstrong J, Fang Q, Reeve AH, Xie D, Chen G, Guo C, Faircloth BC, Petersen B, Wang Z, Zhou Q, Diekhans M, Chen W, Andreu-Sánchez S, Margaryan A, Howard JT, Parent C, Pacheco G, Sinding MS, Puetz L, Cavill E, Ribeiro ÂM, Eckhart L, Fjeldså J, Hosner PA, Brumfield RT, Christidis L, Bertelsen MF, Sicheritz-Ponten T, Tietze DT, Robertson BC, Song G, Borgia G, Claramunt S, Lovette IJ, Cowen SJ, Njoroge P, Dumbacher JP, Ryder OA, Fuchs J, Bunce M, Burt DW, Cracraft J, Meng G, Hackett SJ, Ryan PG, Jønsson KA, Jamieson IG, da Fonseca RR, Braun EL, Houde P, Mirarab S, Suh A, Hansson B, Ponnikas S, Sigeman H, Stervander M, Frandsen PB, van der Zwan H, van der Sluis R, Visser C, Balakrishnan CN, Clark AG, Fitzpatrick JW, Bowman R, Chen N, Cloutier A, Sackton TB, Edwards SV, Foote DJ, Shakya SB, Sheldon FH, Vignal A, Soares AER, Shapiro B, González-Solís J, Ferrer-Obiol J, Rozas J, Riutort M, Tigano A, Friesen V, Dalén L, Urrutia AO, Székely T, Liu Y, Campana MG, Corvelo A, Fleischer RC, Rutherford KM, Gemmell NJ, Dussex N, Mouritsen H, Thiele N, Delmore K, Liedvogel M, Franke A, Hoeppner MP, Krone O, Fudickar AM, Milá B, Ketterson ED, Fidler AE, Friis G, Parody-Merino ÁM, Battley PF, Cox MP, Lima NCB, Prosdocimi F, Parchman TL, Schlinger BA, Loiselle BA, Blake JG, Lim HC, Day LB, Fuxjager MJ, Baldwin MW, Braun MJ, Wirthlin M, Dikow RB, Ryder TB, Camenisch G, Keller LF, DaCosta JM, Hauber ME, Louder MIM, Witt CC, McGuire JA, Mudge J, Megna LC, Carling MD, Wang B, Taylor SA, Del-Rio G, Aleixo A, Vasconcelos ATR, Mello CV, Weir JT, Haussler D, Li Q, Yang H, Wang J, Lei F, Rahbek C, Gilbert MTP, Graves GR, Jarvis ED, Paten B, and Zhang G

Subjects
Animals, Chickens genetics, Conservation of Natural Resources, Datasets as Topic, Finches genetics, Humans, Selection, Genetic genetics, Synteny genetics, Birds classification, Birds genetics, Genome genetics, Genomics methods, Genomics standards, Phylogeny
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.

Published
2020
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5. Accuracy of de novo assembly of DNA sequences from double-digest libraries varies substantially among software.

Author

LaCava MEF, Aikens EO, Megna LC, Randolph G, Hubbard C, and Buerkle CA

Subjects
DNA genetics, Gene Library, Genome, Human, Genomics methods, Humans, Sequence Analysis, DNA methods, Arabidopsis genetics, Genomics standards, Sequence Analysis, DNA standards, Software standards
Abstract

Advances in DNA sequencing have made it feasible to gather genomic data for non-model organisms and large sets of individuals, often using methods for sequencing subsets of the genome. Several of these methods sequence DNA associated with endonuclease restriction sites (various RAD and GBS methods). For use in taxa without a reference genome, these methods rely on de novo assembly of fragments in the sequencing library. Many of the software options available for this application were originally developed for other assembly types and we do not know their accuracy for reduced representation libraries. To address this important knowledge gap, we simulated data from the Arabidopsis thaliana and Homo sapiens genomes and compared de novo assemblies by six software programs that are commonly used or promising for this purpose (ABySS, CD-HIT, Stacks, Stacks2, Velvet and VSEARCH). We simulated different mutation rates and types of mutations, and then applied the six assemblers to the simulated data sets, varying assembly parameters. We found substantial variation in software performance across simulations and parameter settings. ABySS failed to recover any true genome fragments, and Velvet and VSEARCH performed poorly for most simulations. Stacks and Stacks2 produced accurate assemblies of simulations containing SNPs, but the addition of insertion and deletion mutations decreased their performance. CD-HIT was the only assembler that consistently recovered a high proportion of true genome fragments. Here, we demonstrate the substantial difference in the accuracy of assemblies from different software programs and the importance of comparing assemblies that result from different parameter settings., (© 2019 John Wiley & Sons Ltd.)

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2020
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6. Coping behaviour as an adaptation to stress: post-disturbance preening in colonial seabirds.

Author

Henson SM, Weldon LM, Hayward JL, Greene DJ, Megna LC, and Serem MC

Subjects
Animals, Computer Simulation, Confidence Intervals, Logistic Models, Models, Biological, Odds Ratio, Washington, Adaptation, Psychological physiology, Charadriiformes physiology, Grooming physiology, Stress, Psychological physiopathology
Abstract

In humans, coping behaviour is an action taken to soothe oneself during or after a stressful or threatening situation. Some human behaviours with physiological functions also serve as coping behaviours, for example, comfort sucking in infants and comfort eating in adults. In birds, the behaviour of preening, which has important physiological functions, has been postulated to soothe individuals after stressful situations. We combine two existing modelling approaches - logistic regression and Darwinian dynamics - to explore theoretically how a behaviour with crucial physiological function might evolve into a coping behaviour. We apply the method to preening in colonial seabirds to investigate whether and how preening might be co-opted as a coping behaviour in the presence of predators. We conduct an in-depth study of the environmental correlates of preening in a large gull colony in Washington, USA, and we perform an independent field test for comfort preening by computing the change in frequency of preening in gulls that were alerted to a predator, but did not flee.

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2012
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