3 papers published today in nature present major advances in understanding the evolution of birds & mammals, made possible by innovations in comparative genomics. bit.ly/2UfICK2 #zoonomia #B10K #BirdBonanza UC Santa Cruz @HHMINews Benedict Paten Josefin Stiller

Love your songbirds 🎶? The #B10K does too and we sequenced 149 new genomes for this group. We also find that their genomes are quite different from other birds. Read more nature.com/articles/s4158… #BirdBonanza

What to do with so many bird genomes? #BirdBonanza We can study how the genomes are similar and how they differ. The #B10K found that woodpeckers and toucans an unusual proportion of repetitive-repetitive-repetitive-repetitive DNA. Read more nature.com/articles/s4158…

The formal announcement of #B10K project was published in #nature on 3rd June 2015 nature.com/nature/journal…

Samples needed for our family level sequencing: Hypocoliidae, Eupetidae, Pityriaseidae, Pluvianellus, Callaeidae, Hypocoliidae.

Follow us the latest progress of B10K phase II on family level at b10k.genomics.cn/progress.html sequencing for 165 new species has been finished!

B10K welcomes Andrew Reeve from U. Copenhagen to the project. Andrew will help coordinate sample acquisition for the genus-level phylogeny.

Anyone interested in learning more about B10K or wishing to collaborate, please contact Andrew b10k.genomics.cn/aboutus.html

New B10K website is online! b10k.genomics.cn