Biologists identify evolving new bird species in southern Idaho using genomics
Saturday, October 1, 2016 - 19:51
in Biology & Nature
The South Hills crossbill, potentially a newly discovered species of finch, has evolved over the past 6,000 years with a unique dependence on its food source, the Rocky Mountain lodgepole pine, in a coevolutionary arms race that also changed the tree, according to a genomic study led by Tom Parchman, a biologist at the University […]