A comprehensive reference genome assembly dataset of birds inhabiting Denmark, Greenland, and the Faroe Islands

作者：Daniel Bilyeli Øksnebjerg, Sascha Dreyer Nielsen, Guangji Chen, Michael J Andersen, Vanessa Almagro, Roberto Ambrosini, Shigeki Asai, Sharon Birks, Robb T. Brumfield, Vojtěch Brlík, Annaïs Carbajal, Theresa M. Burg, Sandra Bouwhuis, Shuang Wang, Wanjun Chen, Santiago Claramunt, Fuqiang Lin, Jiaqi Xu, Wei Dai, Scott V. Edwards, Mary Margaret Ferraro, Joerns Fickel, Jon Fjeldså, Giulio Formenti, Jérôme Fuchs, Guido Roberto Gallo, Luca Gianfranceschi, Gary R Graves, Grzegorz Grzywaczewski, Wei Han, Tri Haryoko, Ando Haruko, Olof Hellgren, Juan Carlos Illera, E H Jarvis, Lars Erik Johannessen, Arild Johnsen, Ulf S. Johansson, Knud A. Jønsson, Wei Jiang, Victoria Jayne, Takaharu Kawashima, Adam D. Leaché, F F Lei, Jan T. Lifjeld, Miriam Liedvogel, Yang Liu, Irby J. Lovette, Sarah S T Mak, Isao Nishiumi, Michelle F O’Brien, Manabu Onuma, Bent Petersen, Martin Päckert, Marco Pavia, Alivia Price, Javier Quesada, Carsten Rahbek, Andrew Hart Reeve, Alejandro Rico‐Guevara, Markus Risch, Vanya G. Rohwer, Takema Saitoh, C Jonathan Schmitt, Anna Schnelle, Manuel Schweizer, Simona Secomandi, Paula Serres-Corral, Sara Shopland, Gang Song, T Székely, Ivan J Starikov, Josefin Stiller, Xulan Shen, Zhongyi Sun, Dieter Thomas Tietze, Pavel S. Tomkovich, Alfréd Trnka, Araxi O Urrutia, Sölvi Rúnar Vignisson, Kees Wanders, Michael Wink, Kevin Winker, Christopher C. Witt, Jack J. Withrow, Jessie L. Williamson, Glenn Yannic, Nobuyuki Yamaguchi, Zhengwang Zhang, M Thomas P Gilbert, Guojie Zhang, Shaohong Feng, Peter A. Hosner · 发表于：GigaScience · 年份：2026 · DOI：10.1093/gigascience/giag078 · 研究领域：Genomics and Phylogenetic Studies、Genetic diversity and population structure、Environmental DNA in Biodiversity Studies

BACKGROUND: Reference genome assemblies are essential infrastructure for investigating phylogeny, and population/conservation genetics of wild organisms. Birds serve as model vertebrates in ecology and evolutionary biology due to their well-documented natural histories and extensive community science data. FINDINGS: We release a set of 350 newly assembled avian genomes, which, when combined with 97 previously published genomes, represent 447 of the bird species recorded in Denmark, the Faroe Islands, and Greenland-the largest regional dataset of a vertebrate group to date. These genomes are published for various research activities. CONCLUSIONS: This data release advances the global effort to build comprehensive and accessible biodiversity genomic resources for the research community.