Theodosius Dobzhansky Center for Genome Bioinformatics, St. Petersburg State University, St. Petersburg, 199004 Russia ; Oceanographic Center, Nova Southeastern University, Ft Lauderdale, FL 33004 USA.
Department of Biomolecular Engineering, University of California, Santa Cruz, CA 95064 USA.
Gigascience. 2014 Dec 11;3(1):32. doi: 10.1186/2047-217X-3-32. eCollection 2014.
Everyone loves the birds of the world. From their haunting songs and majesty of flight to dazzling plumage and mating rituals, bird watchers - both amateurs and professionals - have marveled for centuries at their considerable adaptations. Now, we are offered a special treat with the publication of a series of papers in dedicated issues of Science, Genome Biology and GigaScience (which also included pre-publication data release). These present the successful beginnings of an international interdisciplinary venture, the Avian Phylogenomics Project that lets us view, through a genomics lens, modern bird species and the evolutionary events that produced them.
每个人都喜欢世界上的鸟类。从它们萦绕不去的歌声和翱翔的壮丽姿态，到令人眼花缭乱的羽毛和交配仪式，鸟类观察者——无论是业余爱好者还是专业人士——几个世纪以来都对它们惊人的适应能力感到惊叹。现在，随着一系列论文在《科学》、《基因组生物学》和《GigaScience》（其中还包括预印本数据发布）的专刊上发表，我们有了一个特别的惊喜。这些论文展示了一个国际跨学科项目——鸟类系统基因组学计划的成功开端，让我们通过基因组学的视角来观察现代鸟类物种以及产生它们的进化事件。
