Molecular analysis through Phylogenetic tree construction using COX 1 gene sequence of Birds of Lake View Park Islamabad

The collection of birds serves as a repository for research and also as a means of documenting avian diversity and its spread. Evolutionary divergence is the sophisticated explanation of similarities and differences among different species of birds. Lineage represents how these different species have evolved can be study. Phylogenetic analysis is generally used to understand how traits among these bird species have evolved. Phylogeny can help in identifying birds based on both morphological and genetic characteristics. In this article, a total number of birds inhabiting Lake view Park Islamabad have been identified and a phylogenetic tree is constructed based on their COX 1 gene sequence. Sequences of the respective species gene are downloaded from NCBI databases using MEGA-X software. The phylogenetic tree represented birds arranged in five different clades from a single emergence of new species and spread of biodiversity of Class Aves organisms from the single ancestor. origin. Four external nodes and one internal node can be seen which showed the