Xiao Xu, Chen Wang, Chunzhong Xu, Jiaqing Yuan, Guiqiang Wang, Yajiang Wu, Chen Huang, Haohao Jing, Peng Yang, Lulu Xu, Shiming Peng, Fen Shan, Xiaochao Xia, Fuyuan Jin, Fanghui Hou, Jinhong Wang, Da Mi, Yandong Ren, Yang Liu, David M Irwin, Xuejuan Li, Wu Chen, Gang Li
Island endemic birds account for the majority of extinct vertebrates in the past few centuries. To date, the evolutionary characteristics of island endemic bird's is poorly known. In this research, we de novo assembled a high-quality chromosome-level reference genome for the Swinhoe's pheasant, which is a typical endemic island bird. Results of collinearity tests suggest rapid ancient chromosome rearrangement that may have contributed to the initial species radiation within Phasianidae, and a role for the insertions of CR1 transposable elements in rearranging chromosomes in Phasianidae...
November 13, 2023: Molecular Ecology Resources