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Recent natural selection causes adaptive evolution of an avian polygenic trait.
Science (New York, N.Y.) - 20 Oct 2017
Bosse Mirte, Spurgin Lewis G, Laine Veronika N, Cole Ella F, Firth Josh A, Gienapp Phillip, Gosler Andrew G, McMahon Keith, Poissant Jocelyn, Verhagen Irene, Groenen Martien A M, van Oers Kees, Sheldon Ben C, Visser Marcel E, Slate Jon
Abstract excerpt
We used extensive data from a long-term study of great tits (Parus major) in the United Kingdom and Netherlands to better understand how genetic signatures of selection translate into variation in fitness and phenotypes. We found that genomic regions under differential selection contained candidate genes for bill morphology and used genetic architecture analyses to confirm that these genes, especially the...
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