• Conservation genomics of the endangered Seychelles Magpie-Robin (Copsychus sechellarum): a unique insight into the history of a precious endemic bird 

      Cavill, Emily L.; Gopalakrishnan, Shyam; Puetz, Lara C.; Ribeiro, Ângela M.; Mak, Sarah S. T.; da Fonseca, Rute R.; Pacheco, George; Dunlop, Bronwyn; Accouche, Wilna; Shah, Nirmal; Zora, Anna; Calabrese, Licia; Genner, Martin; Jones, Gareth; Guo, Chunxue; Zhang, Guojie; Gilbert, Marcus Thomas Pius (Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2021)
      The Seychelles Magpie-Robin Copsychus sechellarum is an IUCN Red-List Endangered species endemic to the Seychelles, whose population was reduced to eight individuals on a single island in the 1960s. Translocations from the ...
    • Darwin's Fancy Revised: An Updated Understanding of the Genomic Constitution of Pigeon Breeds 

      Pacheco, George; Van Grouw, Hein; Shapiro, Michael D.; Gilbert, Marcus Thomas Pius; Vieira, Filipe G. (Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2020)
      Through its long history of artificial selection, the rock pigeon (Columba livia Gmelin 1789) was forged into a large number of domestic breeds. The incredible amount of phenotypic diversity exhibited in these breeds has ...
    • Dense sampling of bird diversity increases power of comparative genomics 

      Feng, Shaohong; Stiller, Josefin; Deng, Yuan; Armstrong, Joel; Fang, Qi; Reeve, Andrew Hart; Xie, Duo; Chen, Guangji; Guo, Chunxue; Faircloth, Brant C.; Petersen, Bent; Wang, Zongji; Zhou, Qi; Diekhans, Mark; Chen, Wanjun; Andreu-Sánchez, Sergio; Margaryan, Ashot; Howard, Jason Travis; Parent, Carole; Pacheco, George; Sinding, Mikkel-Holger S.; Puetz, Lara; Cavill, Emily; Gilbert, Marcus Thomas Pius (Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2020)
      Whole-genome sequencing projects are increasingly populating the tree of life and characterizing biodiversity1,2,3,4. Sparse taxon sampling has previously been proposed to confound phylogenetic inference5, and captures ...
    • Evolutionary History, Genomic Adaptation to Toxic Diet, and Extinction of the Carolina Parakeet 

      Gelabert, Pere; Sandoval-Velasco, Marcela; Serres, Aitor; de Manuel, Marc; Renom, Pere; Margaryan, Ashot; Stiller, Josefin; De-Dios, Toni; Fang, Qi; Feng, Shaohong; Mañosa, Santi; Pacheco, George; Ferrando-Bernal, Manuel; Shi, Guolin; Hao, Fei; Chen, Xianqing; Petersen, Bent; Olsen, Remi-André; Navarro, Arcadi; Deng, Yuan; Dalén, Love; Marques-Bonet, Tomas; Zhang, Guojie; Antunes, Agostinho; Gilbert, Marcus Thomas Pius; Lalueza-Fox, Carles (Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2020)
      As the only endemic neotropical parrot to have recently lived in the northern hemisphere, the Carolina parakeet (Conuropsis carolinensis) was an iconic North American bird. The last surviving specimen died in the Cincinnati ...
    • The germline mutational process in rhesus macaque and its implications for phylogenetic dating 

      Bergeron, Lucie A.; Besenbacher, Søren; Bakker, Jaco; Zheng, Jiao; Li, Panyi; Pacheco, George; Sinding, Mikkel-Holger S.; Kamilari, Maria; Gilbert, Marcus Thomas Pius; Schiedrup, Mikkel H.; Zhang, Guojie (Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2021)
      Background Understanding the rate and pattern of germline mutations is of fundamental importance for understanding evolutionary processes. Results Here we analyzed 19 parent-offspring trios of rhesus macaques (Macaca ...
    • High-coverage genomes to elucidate the evolution of penguins 

      Pan, Hailin; Cole, Theresa L.; Bi, Xupeng; Fang, Miaoquan; Zhou, Chengran; Yang, Zhengtao; Ksepka, Daniel T.; Hart, Tom; Bouzat, Juan L.; Argilla, Lisa S.; Bertelsen, Mads F.; Boersma, P. Dee; Bost, Charles-André; Cherel, Yves; Dann, Peter; Fiddaman, Steven R.; Howard, Pauline; Labuschagne, Kim; Mattern, Thomas; Miller, Gary; Parker, Patricia; Phillips, Richard A.; Quillfeldt, Petra; Ryan, Peter G.; Taylor, Helen; Thompson, David R.; Young, Melanie J.; Ellegaard, Martin; Gilbert, Marcus Thomas Pius; Sinding, Mikkel Holger Strander; Pacheco, George; Shepherd, Lara D.; Tennyson, Alan J.D.; Grosser, Stefanie; Kay, Emily; Nupen, Lisa J.; Ellenberg, Ursula; Houston, David M.; Reeve, Andrew Hart; Johnson, Kathryn; Masello, Juan F.; Stracke, Thomas; McKinlay, Bruce; Borboroglu, Pablo García; Zhang, De-Xing; Zhang, Guojie (Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2019)
      Background Penguins (Sphenisciformes) are a remarkable order of flightless wing-propelled diving seabirds distributed widely across the southern hemisphere. They share a volant common ancestor with Procellariiformes ...
    • Redefining the Evolutionary History of the Rock Dove, Columba livia, Using Whole Genome Sequences 

      Hernández-Alonso, Germán; Ramos-Madrigal, Jazmín; van Grouw, Hein; Ciucani, MartaMaria; Cavill, Emily Louisa; Sinding, Mikkel-Holger S.; Gopalakrishnan, Shyam; Pacheco, George; Gilbert, Marcus Thomas Pius (Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2023)
      The domestic pigeon's exceptional phenotypic diversity was key in developing Darwin's Theory of Evolution and establishing the concept of artificial selection. However, unlike its domestic counterpart, its wild progenitor, ...
    • Uncovering neutral and adaptive genomic differentiation among European perch with brackish water and freshwater origin in the western Baltic Sea region 

      Skovrind, Mikkel; Pacheco, George; Christensen, Emil Aputsiaq Flindt; Gopalakrishnan, Shyam; Fietz, Katharina; Holm-Hansen, Tore Hejl; Vieira, Filipe Garrett; Krag, Marcus Anders; Carl, Henrik; Gilbert, Marcus Thomas Pius; Olsen, Morten Tange; Møller, Peter Daniel Rask (Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2023)
      Environmental variation across the range of wild species can lead to local adaptations. The Baltic Sea was formed when the Fenno-Scandian ice sheet retreated around 12 thousand years ago, creating a new brackish water ...