Exploring the Genetic Diversity of Bird Species

The interactive "bird map" plot includes 10,000 squares, and each of the world's approximately 10,000 species is assigned a square, using x and y coordinates of a grid. The species are arranged on the grid according to their taxonomic order, which reflects evolutionary history and puts closely-related birds near to each other, starting with the most ancient lineages. Genetic and other comparative data is overlaid on the grid as three-dimensional blocks, with height and color used to represent particular features, such as minimum genetic distances between species for example. The grid can be used to explore data on subsets of world birds, such as selected families (eg sandpipers, wrens) hummingbirds) or birds of a specific biogeographic region (eg Neotropical, Indomalayan).

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Science & Technology

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• birds
• genetics
• genome
• scientifique
• visualization
• DNA
• barcode
• genetic
• landscape
• 3D
• interactive
• map
• virtual
• world