Migration direction in a songbird explained by two loci

The genetic determinants of long-distance migration in birds are largely unknown. Sokolovskis et al. tracked genotyped hybrid willow warblers from a migratory divide in Sweden and find that autumn migration direction is consistent with a dominant inheritance pattern of two large effect loci that int...

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Main Authors: Kristaps Sokolovskis, Max Lundberg, Susanne Åkesson, Mikkel Willemoes, Tianhao Zhao, Violeta Caballero-Lopez, Staffan Bensch
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Nature Portfolio 2023-01-01
Series:Nature Communications
Online Access:https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-023-35788-7