December 2014
Authors:
Taylor Callicrate, Rebecca Dikow, James W Thomas, James C Mullikin, Erich D Jarvis, Robert C Fleischer1 and NISC Comparative Sequencing Program
Info:
In this BMC Genomics paper, scientists report assembling the genome sequence of Hemignathus virens, a member of the Hawaiian honeycreeper bird family. They identified nearly 4 million SNPs in the genome, as well as some 156,000 SNPs in a RAD tag study of five honeycreeper species that were compared to the reference genome assembly. Paired-end sequencing was perfomed with the MiSeq and HiSeq 2000 after size selection with Pippin Prep.