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Testing whether macroevolution follows microevolution: are colour differences among swans (Cygnus) attributable to variation at the MCIR locus?

BMC evolutionary biology - 12 Sept 2008

Pointer Marie A, Mundy Nicholas I

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BACKGROUND: The MC1R (melanocortin-1 receptor) locus underlies intraspecific variation in melanin-based dark plumage coloration in several unrelated birds with plumage polymorphisms. There is far less evidence for functional variants of MC1R being involved in interspecific variation, in which spurious genotype-phenotype associations arising through population history are a far greater problem than in...

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PMID: 18789136
DOI: 10.1186/1471-2148-8-249
PMCID: PMC2553801

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