TWiEVO 7: Pigeon fashion week, feathery boots edition
- April 23, 2016
- Tagged as: chicken, Darwin, evolution, feathered feet, limb development, limb identity, pigeon, scaled feet
Mike joins Nels and Vincent to talk about his work on what controls whether pigeons have scaly or feathered feet, and reveals that the hindlimbs of domestic birds with feathery feet are more like wings at the molecular level.