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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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Autores principales: Vickrey, Anna I, Bruders, Rebecca, Kronenberg, Zev, Mackey, Emma, Bohlender, Ryan J, Maclary, Emily T, Maynez, Raquel, Osborne, Edward J, Johnson, Kevin P, Huff, Chad D, Yandell, Mark, Shapiro, Michael D
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: 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