Genetic basis and evolution of structural color polymorphism in an Australian songbird
S. Y. W. Sin, F. Ke, G. Chen, P.-Y. Huang, E. Enbody, J. Karubian, M. Webster, S. V. Edwards
The paper investigates the genetic basis of melanism in white-winged fairywren subspecies, finding that the mainland blue subspecies re-evolved blue plumage from a black ancestor through genetic changes in ASIP and SCUBE2.
bioRxiv · Sep 3, 2023Evolutionary Biology