TWiEVO 7: Pigeon fashion week, feathery boots edition - a podcast by Vincent Racaniello

Hosts: Nels Elde and Vincent Racaniello

Guest: Mike Shapiro

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. 

 

Links for this episode

• Shapiro Laboratory


• Shifts in limb identity underlie development of feathered feet (eLife)


• Photo of Muffed Fairy Swallow by Sydney Stringham

Science Picks

Mike - Pigeon exhibit, Natural History Museum of Utah; Pigeonetics (App store); Darwin's Pigeons
Nels - National Parasite Collection
Vincent - The Story Collider

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