Feet feathers find parallel evolutionary pathways (IMAGE)

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Feet feathers find parallel evolutionary pathways

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Although chicken and pigeon diverged more than 89 million years ago, a new study was able to find in both species the exact same number of loci and exact same number of genes.

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Chiara Bortoluzzi, Wageningen University

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