Table 2.

Published bird genome assemblies

Species	Common name	Percent anchoreda	Reference
Gallus gallus	Chicken (red jungle fowl)	89	International Chicken Genome Sequencing C 2004
Taeniopygia guttata	Zebra finch	83b	Warren et al. 2010
Meleagris gallopavo	Wild turkey	83	Dalloul et al. 2010
Ficedula albicollis	Collared flycatcher	73	Ellegren et al. 2012
Anas platyrhynchos domestica	Pekin duck	26	Huang et al. 2013
Amazona vittata	Puerto Rican parrot	–	Oleksyk et al. 2012
Ara macao	Scarlet macaw	–	Seabury et al. 2013
Columba livia	Domestic rock pigeon	–	Shapiro et al. 2013
Falco cherrug	Saker falcon	–	Zhan et al. 2013
Falco peregrinus	Peregrine falcon	–	Zhan et al. 2013
Geospiza magnirostris	Large ground finch	–	Rands et al. 2013

^aPercentage of genome assembly anchored to chromosomes

^bAnchored to chromosomes or linkage groups