Darwin's Fancy Revised: An Updated Understanding of the Genomic Constitution of Pigeon Breeds.

ABSTRACT: Through its long history of artificial selection, the rock pigeon (Columba livia Gmelin 1789) was forged into a large number of domestic breeds. The incredible amount of phenotypic diversity exhibited in these breeds has long held the fascination of scholars, particularly those interested in biological inheritance and evolution. However, exploiting them as a model system is challenging, as unlike with many other domestic species, few reliable records exist about the origins of, and relationships between, each of the breeds. Therefore, in order to broaden our understanding of the complex evolutionary relationships among pigeon breeds, we generated genome-wide data by performing the genotyping-by-sequencing (GBS) method on close to 200 domestic individuals representing over 60 breeds. We ana

SUBMITTER: Pacheco G 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC7144551 | biostudies-literature | 2020 Mar

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature