Evolutionary BiologyCurrent BiologyPeer-reviewed
Diversifying selection and adaptive introgression of carotenoid-processing genes underlie the evolution of bill color in the long-tailed finch
Daniel M. Hooper, Callum S. McDiarmid, Matthew J. Powers…·Simon Charles Griffith
The paper identifies genetic loci underlying bill color variation in long-tailed finches, showing that yellow alleles arose and introgressed into a red subspecies under natural selection.
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