Published June 21, 2025
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Full genomes of all nine currently recognized lovebird species (genus Agapornis) sampled from wild populations
- 1. University of KwaZulu-Natal
- 2. World Parrot Trust
- 3. University of Chicago
- 4. Iridian Genomes
Description
African lovebirds are popular pet parrots commonly hybridized by breeders leading to genetic admixture. Trade escapees and land use change have now led lovebirds to genetically admix in the wild. Sampling origin is therefore of utmost importance when deriving genetic data from lovebird species to reconstruct phylogeny or historical demographic events as the inclusion of taxa of hybrid origin is a source of spurious results. Here we present complete genomes of all nine currently recognized lovebird species. Each species is represented by an archival geo-referenced individual collected within their natural range.
Data availability
All raw reads and assembled genomes have been deposited and are available on GenBank (National Center for Biotechnology Information NCBI, Table 2).
Publicly available codes used are listed in Methods. No custom code was used for this study.
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- DOI
- 10.1038/s41597-025-05316-x
- Other
- oai:uchicago.tind.io:15562
Funding
- Iridian Genomes
- IRGEN_RG_2021–1345
- World Parrot Trust