While reading the Anopheles gambiae 1000 genomes consortium paper, it occurred to me we could write a 1000 Heliconius genomes paper now. It would not have the same human health implications, of course, but could be rather more interesting evolutionarily.
This has obviously crossed my mind while I was (briefly) working at the Ag1000G. Currently the Anopheles project is a source of inspiration for work on a few hundred genomes from two species. However, the scope of a Heliconius paper would be rather different, considering how many species (and how unevenly sampled!) we have! Both “consortia” have a shared weakness: collecting lots of samples from relatively few places.