| a genetic signature of the evolution of loss of flight in the galapagos cormorant. | we have a limited understanding of the genetic and molecular basis of evolutionary changes in the size and proportion of limbs. we studied wing and pectoral skeleton reduction leading to flightlessness in the galapagos cormorant (phalacrocorax harrisi). we sequenced and de novo assembled the genomes of four cormorant species and applied a predictive and comparative genomics approach to find candidate variants that may have contributed to the evolution of flightlessness. these analyses and cross- ... | 2017 | 28572335 |