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Bok
02-04-2013, 05:12 PM
Humans have shaped the domestic pigeon into hundreds of breeds of various shapes, colors and attributes -- a diversity that captivated Charles Darwin, who even conducted breeding experiments on his own pigeons. Now, a number of domestic and feral pigeon genomes have been sequenced for the first time, giving scientists a resource for studying the genetics of how these traits evolved.
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