New paper on how red plumage production is regulated is out!
Red ornamentation is an important sexual signal in male red-backed fairywrens. Elevated testosterone in their bodies upregulates...
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- Feb 12
- 2 min
New paper on bat fly-host bat association is out!
Excited to share our study on the association between bat flies and their host bats. Bat flies are obligate parasites specialized to...
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- Jan 13
- 1 min
New paper on how selection and drift drive adaptive genetic variation is out!
The evolution of major histocompatibility complex (MHC) genes in a mammal is driven by both balancing selection and genetic drift. Link...
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- Aug 20, 2022
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New paper on Asian shorebird diet is out!
Dietary diversity of multiple shorebird species in an Asian subtropical wetland unveiled by DNA metabarcoding Link Abstract Global...
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- Jul 24, 2022
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New paper on Blue-faced Honeyeater phylogeography and neo-sex chromosome is out!
Using long-read sequencing, we discovered a fusion between chromosome 5 and the Z chromosome to form a neo-Z chromosome in the Blue-faced...
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- Jul 8, 2022
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New paper on female ornamentation evolution in the White-shouldered fairywren is out!
Females of the White-shouldered fairywren are ornamented in some populations. This is an amazing system to understand the evolution of...
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- May 26, 2022
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New 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...
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- Mar 1, 2022
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New 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...
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- Jan 1, 2022
- 2 min
New 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...
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- Oct 14, 2021
- 2 min
Congrats 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...
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- Sep 22, 2021
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New 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...
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- Sep 16, 2021
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New 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...
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- Jul 9, 2021
- 1 min
Songbirds 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...
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- Jul 9, 2021
- 1 min
Congrats to Devin for winning the Summer Research Fellowship!
Devin has won the Summer Research Fellowship 2021 and is studying the microbiome of amphibians.
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- Apr 25, 2021
- 1 min
New 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...
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- Oct 18, 2020
- 1 min
New 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...
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- Jul 11, 2020
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- Jul 9, 2020
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Our 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...
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- May 15, 2020
- 1 min
New 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...
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