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Investigating the role of the melanocortin-1 receptor gene in an extreme case of microgeographical variation in the pattern of melanin-based plumage pigmentation.

PloS one - 1 Jan 2012

Bourgeois Yann X C, Bertrand Joris A M, Thébaud Christophe, Milá Borja

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UNLABELLED: The Réunion grey white-eye (Zosterops borbonicus) is a single-island endemic passerine bird that exhibits striking geographically structured melanic polymorphism at a very small spatial scale. We investigated the genetic basis of this color polymorphism by testing whether the melanocortin-1 receptor (MC1R), a gene often involved in natural melanic polymorphism in birds, was associated with the...

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PMID: 23227219
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0050906
PMCID: PMC3515493

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