Birds of a feather: Pigeon head crest findings extend to domesticated doves

Tuesday, June 23, 2015 - 16:00 in Biology & Nature

Evolutionary biologist Michael Shapiro and his team from the University of Utah made international headlines in 2013 when they found that a prominent change in pigeon plumage, head crests, could be traced to a mutation in a single gene.

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