• Darwin's Fancy Revised: An Updated Understanding of the Genomic Constitution of Pigeon Breeds 

      Pacheco, George; Van Grouw, Hein; Shapiro, Michael D.; Gilbert, Marcus Thomas Pius; Vieira, Filipe G. (Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2020)
      Through its long history of artificial selection, the rock pigeon (Columba livia Gmelin 1789) was forged into a large number of domestic breeds. The incredible amount of phenotypic diversity exhibited in these breeds has ...
    • Improved Genome Assembly and Annotation for the Rock Pigeon (Columba livia) 

      Holt, Carson; Campbell, Michael; Keays, David Anthony; Edelman, Nathaniel; Kapusta, Aurélie; Maclary, Emily; Domyan, Eric T.; Suh, Alexander; Warren, Wesley C.; Yandell, Mark; Gilbert, Marcus Thomas Pius; Shapiro, Michael D. (Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2018)
      The domestic rock pigeon (Columba livia) is among the most widely distributed and phenotypically diverse avian species. C. livia is broadly studied in ecology, genetics, physiology, behavior, and evolutionary biology, and ...