Prof's Genome Sequencing Finding

Darwin’s finches, inhabiting the Galápagos archipelago and Cocos Island, constitute an iconic model for studies of speciation and adaptive evolution. An international team of scientists, led by Dr. Leif Andersson of the Texas A&M College of Veterinary Medicine & Biomedical Sciences and Uppsala University in Sweden, has now shed light on the evolutionary history of these birds and identified a gene that explains variation in beak shape within and among species. The study was published in Nature, on the day before the 206th anniversary of Charles Darwin’s birth.

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