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Paper News!🚨 How do pheomelanic birds handle oxidative stress if their pigments consume antioxidants?🤔 Seems like physiological plasticity may be the answer💡🤯 Out now in iScience!👉🔗10.1016/j.isci.2025.112937 Short on time? Check the GA😉 @ecoevol_MNCN @evolgenCIBIO

Paper News!🚨 You may be more familiar with #acromelanism than you think🤔The culprit? A heat-sensitive protein that affects melanin synthesis! Turns out, it's not much studied in birds🫣 Read our latest to find what Perl canaries are all about😉 doi.org/10.1111/age.13… #colsci

@Jente_O @PLOSGenetics @MolBioEvol Thanks @Jente_O 🙂 Looking forward to more blog posts

New story on the #AvianHybrids blog! Look into my eyes: Unraveling the genetic basis of iris color in domestic pigeons avianhybrids.wordpress.com/2024/02/28/loo… Based on several papers in @PLOSGenetics and @MolBioEvol | #ornithology

@mdshawkey @MichalNicola1 Congrats @MichalNicola1 !!

How do "invisible" traits traits affect evolution? In our new paper led by @MichalNicola1 we show that dark skin under feathers enhances net diversification of birds, perhaps by absorbing UV, thereby enabling evolution of lighter, non UV-absorbing, plumage royalsocietypublishing.org/doi/10.1098/rs…

@ATJCagan @Nature UAU! 🤩

Incredibly excited to share our paper ‘Somatic mutation rates scale with lifespan across mammals’ now published @nature. nature.com/articles/s4158… An illustrated & updated tweetorial… [1/24]

@MafaldaSFe has been working on Atlantic herring adaptation. Lovely to hear her explain how SVs have shaped herring populations and how they perfectly distribute over latitudinal gradients in concordance to water temperature🐟🌡 #SMBE23 if you missed live, check it out in GTown😉

Oh the Danaus sp. dilemma...🙈 Amazing talk by Rishi de-Kayne from @simonhmartin lab on dynamic supergenes conferring different colors morphs to Monarch butterflies 🦋🌈 #SMBE2023 #colsci

Recent private chr fusion in Brenthis butterflies 🦋 shows signs of positive selection BUT in the context of GF it may be a tech artifact. Sounds very promising and hopefully they can disentangle these effects later on 😊 Beautifully clear talk from Alex Mackintosh👏 #SMBE2023

Fancy colourful birds?🌈🐦 Interested in sex-specific trait evolution?🧬🕵‍♀️ Come find me and Poster_847 at San Paolo Cloisters #SMBE2023 for exciting cuckoo facts 😉 (pun intended) #colsci

Amazing talk from Graduate Student Excellence Awardee Aurora Alvarez-Buylla #SMBE23 Poison frogs use ABG to bind dietary alkaloids avoiding toxicity. Interestingly this blood protein his homologous to CBG, cortisol binding protein in mammals. Toxicity is still stress right? 🤷‍♀️😋

Emilia Huerta-Sanchez on human evolutionary biology opening this promising 2nd day of #SMBE2023 #SMBE23

Poster Sesh #1 at San Paolo Cloisters #SMBE2023 Mood = too many people

First plenary by Kateryna Makova at CT venue #SMBE2023 Really nice and packed with juicy information on why studying sex-chromosomes and how they uncover exciting Ape biology

@cowbirdlab Beautiful! Love tiles🙂

More mosaics bird life in Ravenna.

@facasaro Is it online streamed?

@cowbirdlab Congratulations Mark! Sending positive vibes your way. They are lucky to have you and I am sure you will do great🤗

Life update: I'm moving back to NYC! Find me in the fall 2023 in the director's office at asrc.gc.cuny.edu

@BioMarAlvarenga @evomics Boa Sorteeee! 🤗😘

@f_najas Can it be a sensorial organ? I was wondering if you study coloration on these, too :)

@CIMarques2 Hmm, maybe they are more diverse than I thought. But I still don’t know why they have a long process on their head. This is so curious! :)

Fulgoridae of this month.

@f_najas Uau! Super cool :) What is the most surprising thing you learned about this species complex? Sorry for asking I got really curious about their look eheh :)

@CIMarques2 Yes! :)