DARWIN'S PIGEONS AND THE EVOLUTION OF THE COLUMBIFORMS: RECAPITULATION OF ANCIENT GENES

To commemorate the sesquicentennial of Charles Darwin's "On the Origin of Species by Means of Natural Selection", we address an essential topic in this publication. Domestic pigeons were extremely important in shaping Darwin's theory of evolution: pigeons featured prominently not...

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Published in:Acta Zoológica Mexicana (nueva serie)
Main Authors: Luis Felipe BAPTISTA, Juan Esteban MARTÍNEZ GÓMEZ, Helen Mary HORBLIT
Format: Artigo
Language:Inglês
Published: Instituto de Ecología, A.C. 2009
Subjects:
Biología
domestication
Columbiformes
Columbia livia
Darwin's pigeons
natural selection
Online Access:https://www.redalyc.org/articulo.oa?id=57512077023
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