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What Have We Accomplished?

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Ed Yong. Every one of these endearing parrots will have its genome sequenced. The Atlantic. Sept 13, 2017

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Genome 10K Community of Scientists. A proposal to obtain whole-genome sequence for 10,000 vertebrate species. J Hered. 2009 Nov 4;100:659-674.

Jarvis ED, Mirarab S, Abere AJ, et al. Whole-genome analyses resolve early branches in the tree of life of modern birds. Science. 12 Dec 2014;346(6215): 1320-31.

Zhang G, Li C, Qyie L, et al. Comparative genomics reveals insights into avian genome evolution and adapation. Science. 12 Dec 2014;346(6215): 1311-20

Klaus-Peter Koepfli, Benedict Paten, the Genome 10K Community of Scientists, and Stephen J. O’Brien. The Genome 10K Project: a way forward. Annual Review of Animal Biosciences. 2015;3:57-111.

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