TY - JOUR AU - Li, Shengbin AU - Li, Bo AU - Cheng, Cheng AU - Xiong, Zijun AU - Liu, Qingbo AU - Lai, Jianghua AU - Carey, Hannah V. AU - Zhang, Qiong AU - Zheng, Haibo AU - Wei, Shuguang AU - Zhang, Hongbo AU - Chang, Liao AU - Liu, Shiping AU - Zhang, Shanxin AU - Yu, Bing AU - Zeng, Xiaofan AU - Hou, Yong AU - Nie, Wenhui AU - Guo, Youmin AU - Chen, Teng AU - Han, Jiuqiang AU - Wang, Jian AU - Wang, Jun AU - Chen, Chen AU - Liu, Jiankang AU - Stambrook, Peter J. AU - Xu, Ming AU - Zhang, Guojie AU - Gilbert, M. Thomas P. AU - Yang, Huanming AU - Jarvis, Erich D. AU - Yu, Jun AU - Yan, Jianqun PY - 2014 DA - 2014/12/11 TI - Genomic signatures of near-extinction and rebirth of the crested ibis and other endangered bird species JO - Genome Biology SP - 557 VL - 15 IS - 12 AB - Nearly one-quarter of all avian species is either threatened or nearly threatened. Of these, 73 species are currently being rescued from going extinct in wildlife sanctuaries. One of the previously most critically-endangered is the crested ibis, Nipponia nippon. Once widespread across North-East Asia, by 1981 only seven individuals from two breeding pairs remained in the wild. The recovering crested ibis populations thus provide an excellent example for conservation genomics since every individual bird has been recruited for genomic and demographic studies. SN - 1474-760X UR - https://doi.org/10.1186/s13059-014-0557-1 DO - 10.1186/s13059-014-0557-1 ID - Li2014 ER -