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Single-gene mutation in pigeons also in doves
ScienceDaily
Birds of a feather: Pigeon head crest findings extend to domesticated doves
http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/sciencedaily/strange_science/~3/SUhlLUKLC3k/150623180305.htm?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=email
A few years ago biologists found that a prominent change in pigeon plumage, head crests, could be traced to a mutation in a single gene. Now the research team has found an almost exact repeat in the evolutionary playbook in distantly related doves.