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    New paper on storm petrel MHC and feather odor is out!
    • 16 hours ago
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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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    New paper on copy number variation of MHC genes in the Siamese fighting fish is out!
    • Mar 1
    • 2 min

    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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    New paper on storm petrel olfactory receptor genes is out!
    • Jan 1
    • 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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    Congrats Boyee on the horseshoe crab paper!
    • 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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    New paper on the black‐faced spoonbill is out!
    • Sep 22, 2021
    • 1 min

    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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    New paper on global parrot trade is out!
    • 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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    Songbirds like it sweet! New paper out in Science!
    • 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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    Congrats to Devin for winning the Summer Research Fellowship!
    • 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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    New paper on the Leach's storm petrel is out!
    • Apr 25, 2021
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    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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    New paper on the Northern Cardinal genome!
    • 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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    Welcome new RPg Alex!
    • Sep 11, 2020
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    Welcome new RPg Alex!

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    Congratulations to Lucy & Megan for winning the Undergraduate Research Fellowship!
    • Jul 11, 2020
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    Congratulations to Lucy & Megan for winning the Undergraduate Research Fellowship!

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    Our lovebird paper is out in Molecular Biology Reports!
    • Jul 9, 2020
    • 2 min

    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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    New Preprint on BioRxiv!
    • May 15, 2020
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    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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    Our Raso lark paper is out in ProcB!
    • Mar 4, 2020
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    Our 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....
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    New Preprint on BioRxiv!
    • Aug 12, 2019
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    New Preprint on BioRxiv!

    Happy to share our work on olfactory receptor subgenome and expression in a highly olfactory procellariiform seabird...
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    New Preprint on BioRxiv!
    • Apr 25, 2019
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    New 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...
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    Congrats to Alex & Andy for winning the Undergraduate Research Fellowship!
    • Apr 6, 2019
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    Congrats to Alex & Andy for winning the Undergraduate Research Fellowship!

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