{"id":2378,"date":"2014-07-16T15:06:40","date_gmt":"2014-07-16T20:06:40","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/sciencemediacentre.ca\/site\/?p=2378"},"modified":"2014-07-16T15:06:40","modified_gmt":"2014-07-16T20:06:40","slug":"spotted-green-pigeon-was-a-unique-species","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/sciencemediacentre.ca\/site\/spotted-green-pigeon-was-a-unique-species\/","title":{"rendered":"Spotted green pigeon was a unique species"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"attachment_2356\" style=\"width: 360px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"http:\/\/sciencemediacentre.ca\/site\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/07\/Spotted-Green-Pigeon.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-2356\" class=\"size-full wp-image-2356\" src=\"http:\/\/sciencemediacentre.ca\/site\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/07\/Spotted-Green-Pigeon.jpg\" alt=\"New genetic analysis of the world\u2019s only remaining specimen of the Spotted Green Pigeon shows that it is a separate species, closely related to the Nicobar pigeon and the extinct dodo. (Image credit: Joseph Smit, World Museum)\" width=\"350\" height=\"382\" srcset=\"http:\/\/sciencemediacentre.ca\/site\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/07\/Spotted-Green-Pigeon.jpg 350w, http:\/\/sciencemediacentre.ca\/site\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/07\/Spotted-Green-Pigeon-274x300.jpg 274w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 350px) 100vw, 350px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-2356\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">New genetic analysis of the world\u2019s only remaining specimen of the Spotted Green Pigeon shows that it is a separate species, closely related to the Nicobar pigeon and the extinct dodo. (Image credit: Joseph Smit, World Museum)<\/p><\/div>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000;\">DNA analysis has shed light on the origins of the mysterious spotted green pigeon, of which only one stuffed specimen remains. The specimen is held by the World Museum in Liverpool UK, but there is no record of where the pigeon was found, nor are there any records of sightings in the wild. <\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000;\">DNA barcoding has now revealed that it is related to, but distinct from, the Nicobar pigeon which is known to hop between several Indonesian islands. It\u2019s also related to the dodo and the Rodrigues solitaire, two extinct birds from islands near Madagascar.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><span><a href=\"http:\/\/www.biomedcentral.com\/1471-2148\/14\/136\" target=\"_blank\">Original research paper<\/a><\/span><\/span>\u00a0published in the journal\u00a0<em><span style=\"color: #000000;\">BMC Evolutionary Biology\u00a0<\/span><\/em>on\u00a0<strong>July 15, 2014<\/strong>.<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><span><strong>Names and affiliations of selected\u00a0authors<\/strong><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<h4><span style=\"color: #000000;\">Tim Heupink, Griffith University, Australia<\/span><\/h4>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>DNA analysis has shed light on the origins of the mysterious spotted green pigeon, of which only one stuffed specimen remains. The specimen is held by the World Museum in Liverpool UK, but there is no record of where the pigeon was found, nor are there any records of sightings in the wild. DNA barcoding [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":2356,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[25],"tags":[170,114,1445,171,917],"class_list":["post-2378","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-paper-of-interest","tag-biodiversity","tag-birds","tag-conservation","tag-ecology","tag-evolution"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"http:\/\/sciencemediacentre.ca\/site\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/07\/Spotted-Green-Pigeon.jpg","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p4DqbN-Cm","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/sciencemediacentre.ca\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2378","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/sciencemediacentre.ca\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/sciencemediacentre.ca\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/sciencemediacentre.ca\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/sciencemediacentre.ca\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2378"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/sciencemediacentre.ca\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2378\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2379,"href":"http:\/\/sciencemediacentre.ca\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2378\/revisions\/2379"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/sciencemediacentre.ca\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2356"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/sciencemediacentre.ca\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2378"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/sciencemediacentre.ca\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2378"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/sciencemediacentre.ca\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2378"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}