Despite Lack of Genetic Diversity, Why Do Finches Differ in Color? (18 of 18) (IMAGE)

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Despite Lack of Genetic Diversity, Why Do Finches Differ in Color? (18 of 18)

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Male Sporophila ruficollis. This material relates to a paper that appeared in the May 24, 2017, issue of Science Advances, published by AAAS. The paper, by L. Campagna at Cornell Laboratory of Ornithology in Ithaca, NY, and colleagues was titled, "Repeated divergent selection on pigmentation genes in a rapid finch radiation."

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[Credit: Edson Endrigo]

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