15 hours ago1 minNew paper on storm petrel MHC and feather odor is out!In a highly scented seabird, volatile chemicals from bird feathers encode information about the MHC genes. It suggests a role for body...
Mar 12 minNew paper on copy number variation of MHC genes in the Siamese fighting fish is out! We discovered copy number variation (CNV) of MHC genes in this paper. qPCR and depth-of-coverage analysis reveal intra-specific CNV. WGS...
Jan 12 minNew paper on storm petrel olfactory receptor genes is out!This is the first study of transcriptomes of avian olfactory epithelium. We identified OR genes that were differentially expressed...
Oct 14, 20212 minCongrats Boyee on the horseshoe crab paper!https://www.frontiersin.org/articles/10.3389/fmars.2021.752806/full Title DNA Metabarcoding Revealed Interspecific Dietary Difference and...
Sep 22, 20211 minNew paper on the black‐faced spoonbill is out! We studied their faecal DNA using DNA metabarcoding, and revealed a broad dietary spectrum. The large intraspecific variations between...
Sep 16, 20212 minNew paper on global parrot trade is out!https://doi.org/10.1016/j.gecco.2021.e01784 Title Global trade in parrots – Influential factors of trade and implications for...
Jul 9, 20211 minSongbirds like it sweet! New paper out in Science!Great to see this interesting paper led by Maude Baldwin and Yasuka Toda is out! It shows an early origin of sweet perception in...
Jul 9, 20211 minCongrats to Devin for winning the Summer Research Fellowship!Devin has won the Summer Research Fellowship 2021 and is studying the microbiome of amphibians.
Apr 25, 20211 minNew paper on the Leach's storm petrel is out!https://www.journals.uchicago.edu/doi/10.1086/714079 Title Demographic History, Not Mating System, Explains Signatures of Inbreeding and...
Oct 18, 20201 minNew paper on the Northern Cardinal genome!https://www.g3journal.org/content/10/10/3541 Title De Novo Assembly of the Northern Cardinal (Cardinalis cardinalis) Genome Reveals...
Jul 9, 20202 minOur lovebird paper is out in Molecular Biology Reports!So glad to see the first paper from my student is out! It’s the first solely from our lab. Well done Derek! https://link.springer.com/art...
May 15, 20201 minNew Preprint on BioRxiv!Happy to share our preprint on the Northern Cardinal genome and the study of its CYP2J19 genomic region. There seems to be a strong...
Mar 4, 20201 minOur Raso lark paper is out in ProcB!Our Raso lark paper is out. It’s great to work with Elisa Dierickx et al. on this interesting project! https://doi.org/10.1098/rspb.2019....
Aug 12, 20191 minNew Preprint on BioRxiv!Happy to share our work on olfactory receptor subgenome and expression in a highly olfactory procellariiform seabird...
Apr 25, 20191 minNew Preprint on BioRxiv! Happy to share this work with Elisa Dierickx et al. on how neo-sex chromosomes and demography have shaped genetic diversity in a...