Protein-coding variation and introgression of regulatory alleles drive plumage pattern diversity in the rock pigeon
A. Vickrey, R. Bruders, Z. Kronenberg, E. Mackey, R. J. Bohlender, E. Maclary, E. J. Osborne, K. P. Johnson, C. D. Huff, M. Yandell, M. Shapiro
The paper identifies NDP as a gene driving plumage pattern diversity in rock pigeons through regulatory and coding variation, showing introgression from speckled pigeons and links to vision defects.
bioRxiv · Jan 5, 2018Evolutionary Biology