Passenger Pigeon Specimens (IMAGE)

University of California - Santa Cruz

Passenger Pigeon Specimens

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DNA recovered from museum specimens, such as these in the Denver Museum of Nature & Science, enabled researchers to sequence and assemble mitochondrial and nuclear genomes of passenger pigeons.

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Rene O'Connell

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