Pigeonetics takes flight: Evolution, development, and genetics of intraspecific variation.
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SUBMITTER: Domyan ET
PROVIDER: S-EPMC5521274 | biostudies-literature | 2017 Jul
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Pigeonetics takes flight: Evolution, development, and genetics of intraspecific variation.
Domyan Eric T ET Shapiro Michael D MD
Developmental biology 20161112 2
Intensive artificial selection over thousands of years has produced hundreds of varieties of domestic pigeon. As Charles Darwin observed, the morphological differences among breeds can rise to the magnitude of variation typically observed among different species. Nevertheless, different pigeon varieties are interfertile, thereby enabling forward genetic and genomic approaches to identify genes that underlie derived traits. Building on classical genetic studies of pigeon variation, recent molecul ...[more]
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