THE SIN LAB

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...

Females of the White-shouldered fairywren are ornamented in some populations. This is an amazing system to understand the evolution of...

In a highly scented seabird, volatile chemicals from bird feathers encode information about the MHC genes. It suggests a role for body...

We discovered copy number variation (CNV) of MHC genes in this paper. qPCR and depth-of-coverage analysis reveal intra-specific CNV. WGS...

This is the first study of transcriptomes of avian olfactory epithelium. We identified OR genes that were differentially expressed...

https://www.frontiersin.org/articles/10.3389/fmars.2021.752806/full Title DNA Metabarcoding Revealed Interspecific Dietary Difference and...

We studied their faecal DNA using DNA metabarcoding, and revealed a broad dietary spectrum. The large intraspecific variations between...

https://doi.org/10.1016/j.gecco.2021.e01784 Title Global trade in parrots – Influential factors of trade and implications for...

Great to see this interesting paper led by Maude Baldwin and Yasuka Toda is out! It shows an early origin of sweet perception in...

Devin has won the Summer Research Fellowship 2021 and is studying the microbiome of amphibians.

https://www.journals.uchicago.edu/doi/10.1086/714079 Title Demographic History, Not Mating System, Explains Signatures of Inbreeding and...

https://www.g3journal.org/content/10/10/3541 Title De Novo Assembly of the Northern Cardinal (Cardinalis cardinalis) Genome Reveals...

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...

Happy to share our preprint on the Northern Cardinal genome and the study of its CYP2J19 genomic region. There seems to be a strong...

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....

Happy to share our work on olfactory receptor subgenome and expression in a highly olfactory procellariiform seabird...

Happy to share this work with Elisa Dierickx et al. on how neo-sex chromosomes and demography have shaped genetic diversity in a...