Evolutionary BiologybioRxiv
Protein-coding variation and introgression of regulatory alleles drive plumage pattern diversity in the rock pigeon
A. Vickrey, R. Bruders, Z. Kronenberg…·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.
DOI 10.7554/elife.34803