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Introgression of regulatory alleles and a missense coding mutation drive plumage pattern diversity in the rock pigeon
Birds and other vertebrates display stunning variation in pigmentation patterning, yet the genes controlling this diversity remain largely unknown. Rock pigeons (Columba livia) are fundamentally one of four color pattern phenotypes, in decreasing order of melanism: T-check, checker, bar (ancestral),...
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Formato: | Online Artículo Texto |
Lenguaje: | English |
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eLife Sciences Publications, Ltd
2018
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Acceso en línea: | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6050045/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/30014848 http://dx.doi.org/10.7554/eLife.34803 |