@article {905796,
	title = {Three crocodilian genomes reveal ancestral patterns of evolution among archosaurs},
	journal = {Science},
	volume = {346},
	number = {6215},
	year = {2014},
	note = {<p>Aw3maTimes Cited:2Cited References Count:82</p>},
	month = {Dec 12},
	pages = {1335-+},
	abstract = {<p>To provide context for the diversification of archosaurs-the group that includes crocodilians, dinosaurs, and birds-we generated draft genomes of three crocodilians: Alligator mississippiensis (the American alligator), Crocodylus porosus (the saltwater crocodile), and Gavialis gangeticus (the Indian gharial). We observed an exceptionally slow rate of genome evolution within crocodilians at all levels, including nucleotide substitutions, indels, transposable element content and movement, gene family evolution, and chromosomal synteny. When placed within the context of related taxa including birds and turtles, this suggests that the common ancestor of all of these taxa also exhibited slow genome evolution and that the comparatively rapid evolution is derived in birds. The data also provided the opportunity to analyze heterozygosity in crocodilians, which indicates a likely reduction in population size for all three taxa through the Pleistocene. Finally, these data combined with newly published bird genomes allowed us to reconstruct the partial genome of the common ancestor of archosaurs, thereby providing a tool to investigate the genetic starting material of crocodilians, birds, and dinosaurs.</p>},
	keywords = {alignment, Birds, body-size, divergence times, maximum-likelihood, molecular clock, scale phylogenetic analyses, sister group, species-tree, ultraconserved elements},
	isbn = {0036-8075},
	author = {Green, R. E. and Braun, E. L. and Armstrong, J. and Earl, D. and Nguyen, N. and Hickey, G. and Vandewege, M. W. and St John, J. A. and Capella-Gutierrez, S. and Castoe, T. A. and Kern, C. and Fujita, M. K. and Opazo, J. C. and Jurka, J. and Kojima, K. K. and Caballero, J. and Hubley, R. M. and Smit, A. F. and Platt, R. N. and Lavoie, C. A. and Ramakodi, M. P. and Finger, J. W. and Suh, A. and Isberg, S. R. and Miles, L. and Chong, A. Y. and Jaratlerdsiri, W. and Gongora, J. and Moran, C. and Iriarte, A. and McCormack, J. and Burgess, S. C. and Edwards, S. V. and Lyons, E. and Williams, C. and Breen, M. and Howard, J. T. and Gresham, C. R. and Peterson, D. G. and Schmitz, J. and Pollock, D.D. and Haussler, D. and Triplett, E. W. and Zhang, G. and Irie, N. and Jarvis, E. D. and Brochu, C. A. and Schmidt, C. J. and McCarthy, F. M. and Faircloth, B. C. and Hoffmann, F. G. and Glenn, T. C. and Gabaldoon, T. and Paten, B. and Ray, D. A.}
}
