A beak size locus in Darwin’s finches facilitated character displacement during a drought

• DOI: 10.1126/science.aad8786
• Publication Date: 2016-04-21T18:44:00Z
• Authors: Sangeet Lamichhaney; Fan Han; Jonas Berglund; Chao Wang; Markus Sällman Almén; Matthew T. Webster; B. Rosemary Grant; Peter R. Grant; Leif Andersson
• Keywords: Beak; Finch

Linked loci and Galapagos finch size Observations of parallel evolution in the finches Galapagos, including body beak size, contributed to Darwin's theories. Lamichhaney et al. carried out whole-genome sequencing 60 finches. These included small, medium, large ground as well tree A genomic region containing HMGA2 gene correlated strongly with across different species. This locus appears have played a role diversification throughout radiation Science , this issue p. 470