Flycatchers' genomes explain how one species became two
Wednesday, October 24, 2012 - 13:01
in Biology & Nature
Just how new species are established is still one of the most central questions in biology. Biologists now describe how they mapped the genomes of the European pied flycatcher and the collared flycatcher and found that it is disparate chromosome structures rather than separate adaptations in individual genes that underlies the separation of the species.