ArticleScience advances2022
A conserved molecular template underlies color pattern diversity in estrildid finches.
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- Color patterns as a model for connecting developmental mechanisms to phenotypic evolution.Nature communications · 2026Review
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- The genetic basis of divergent melanic pigmentation in benthic and limnetic threespine stickleback.Heredity · 2024Article
- Conserved regulatory switches for the transition from natal down to juvenile feather in birds.Nature communications · 2024Article
- Mechanisms Underlying the Formation and Evolution of Vertebrate Color Patterns.Annual review of genetics · 2023Review
- Development shapes the evolutionary diversification of rodent stripe patterns.Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America · 2023Article
- Transition from natal downs to juvenile feathers: conserved regulatory switches in Neoaves.Research square · 2023Article
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Abstract
The color patterns that adorn animals' coats not only exhibit extensive diversity linked to various ecological functions but also display recurrences in geometry, orientation, or body location. How processes of pattern formation shape such phenotypic trends remains a mystery. Here, we surveyed plumage color patterns in passerine finches displaying extreme apparent variation and identified a conserved set of color domains. We linked these domains to putative embryonic skin regions instructed by early developmental tissues and outlined by the combinatory expression of few genetic markers. We found that this embryonic prepattern is largely conserved in birds displaying drastic color differences in the adult, interspecies variation resulting from the masking or display of each domain depending on their coloration. This work showed that a simple molecular landscape serves as common spatial template to extensive color pattern variation in finches, revealing that early conserved landmarks and molecular pathways are a major cause of phenotypic trends.
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