Drivers of avian genomic change revealed by evolutionary rate decomposition
David Alejandro Duchêne, Al-Aabid Chowdhury, Jingyi Yang…·Simon Y. W. Ho
This study decomposes evolutionary rates in birds to identify drivers of genomic change, finding clutch size, generation length, and beak shape predict mutation rates, with rapid evolution linked to meiosis, heart function, and ecological diversification.