Full genomes of all nine currently recognized lovebird species (genus Agapornis) sampled from wild populations

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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