Warbler genomes look to be 99.97 percent alike

Tuesday, August 23, 2016 - 14:31 in Biology & Nature

New research shows that, genetically speaking, blue-winged and golden-winged warblers are almost identical. Scientists behind the research say the main differences between the two species are in feather color and pattern, in some cases just a simple matter of dominant or recessive pairings of gene variants, or alleles.

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