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By News Editor And Partners • Dec 22, 2020   New Mexico State University biology Professor Peter Houde is among more than 200 researchers involved in phase two of a massive effort at mapping the genomes of each of the world’s 10,500 bird species. In the project known as B10K, researchers from University of Copenhagen and partner institutions have sequenced 363 genomes from 92.4 percent of all bird families on Earth. Completion of the first phase of the study in 2014 resulted in the release of dozens of publications in special issues of several premier scientific journa...

NMSU researcher collaborates on phase two of massive bird genome study Minerva Baumann, New Mexico State University © Darren Phillips / New Mexico State University New Mexico State University biology Professor Peter Houde holds up a specimen related to the birds that he and three graduate students studied as part of an international collaboration sequencing the DNA of all major groups of birds. LAS CRUCES - New Mexico State University biology Professor Peter Houde is among more than 200 researchers involved in phase two of a massive effort at mapping the genomes of each of ...