Gabriel Jamie

Why do nestling birds sometimes evolve elaborate ornamentation? Our paper explores the diversification of nestling ornamentation in Estrildid finches: tinyurl.com/7aesm9u5 We find evidence that brood parasitism accelerates nestling ornamentation evolution in this radiation

Delighted to see our paper on the amazing signatures and forgeries of fork-tailed drongos and African cuckoos out today in ProcB! Big thank you to the wonderful coauthors @T_Dixit123, @Mairenn_C , Silky Hamama, Collins Moya, @SensoryEcology, @Gabriel_A_Jamie and @honeyguide. 1/3

Honey badgers don’t care! Or do they... and work together with honeyguide birds to steal from bees? For our collaborative paper out today in @JZoology, we looked into the evidence that honey badgers and honeyguides cooperate to access bees’ nests🍯…lpublications.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/jz… (1/7)

Congrats @Stefmcc2 on your 4th PhD paper out in @RSocPublishing RSOS. Investigating the eggshell surface properties of avian brood parasites & hosts. Link below #OpenAccess #ornithology #birds With @MarieRAttard @Gabriel_A_Jamie @T_Dixit123 @GroupBowen @honeyguiding @RHULBioSci

I'll be giving a research seminar today, 16 May at 2pm in Lindahlsalen @UU_University on "Mimicry, speciation and polymorphism in Africa's brood-parasitic birds" hosted by @AlstromPer. Hope those in Uppsala will be able to attend!

What happens when a brood parasite picks a fight with a super aggressive species? Hugely excited that my first ever first-author paper, with an awesome team of @jesslund01, @ChimaobimNwaogu, Collins Moya and @honeyguide, is out now in #ProcB: doi.org/10.1098/rspb.2…

Looking for a postdoc and interested in the effects of chromosome fusions and fissions and other rearrangements on speciation? Apply to join my lab at @SangerToL at the Sanger Institute near Cambridge, UK for 3 y. Lots of genome assemblies to study. jobs.sanger.ac.uk/vacancy/postdo…

Our workshop on "What limits the study of moult?" for #IOCongress2022 begins at 11am South Africa time. Look forward to seeing conference attendees there at Round Table 11! Organised together with @ChimaobimNwaogu @io_congress

Fantastic turnout for the symposium on parallel and repeated evolution in adaptive radiations at #ESEB2022! Thanks to everyone who came and to @IslandGenomics for organising!

Speaking at #ESEB2022 this morning @ 11.30am in North Hall on "The Persistence of Polymorphisms Across Species Radiations" as part of the S09 Parallelism in adaptive radiation symposium

Out in @RSocPublishing #ProcB: A biologically-relevant measure of egg pattern complexity predicts the rejection of eggs by hosts of brood parasites, according to Weber's Law. royalsocietypublishing.org/doi/10.1098/rs…

A new species of Spider described from our recent work in DRC, honourably named after @WWFDRC.. more outputs in the wings, watch this space! mapress.com/zt/article/vie…

Addition to my Yankari dairy. Here are few out of many butterfly species I photograph in @officialYankari. #lepidoptera #Butterflies #Conservation #ecology

@joana_meier @SangerToL @MarkBlaxter @marakat @richard_durbin @KamilSJaron Brilliant - huge congratulations Joana!!

Super excited to announce that I started as a @SangerToL group leader at the Sanger Institute today. What a wonderful team to start with! (photo from a lab tour) Also looking forward to working with @MarkBlaxter, @marakat, @richard_durbin, @KamilSJaron, their teams & great staff.

The Jos Zulu (Alaena exotica) is an endemic butterfly to the Jos Plateau, Its habitat is typically rocky outcrops with patches of tall to medium size grasses. The larval stage of these butterflies’ feeds on cyanobacteria (blue-green algae) found growing on the rocks. #LepiGist

Full article here: pnas.org/doi/abs/10.107…

Fantastic to see our work on the front cover of @pnas! Photo showing the amazing polymorphisms in Cuckoo Finch eggs by @honeyguide.

@EleanorCaves @honeyguide Thank you Eleanor!

@SVBelleghem @honeyguide Thanks Steven!

@Hanliconius @honeyguide @pnas @jeff_dacosta Thanks Joe!

@Gabriel_A_Jamie @honeyguide @pnas @jeff_dacosta Congratulations all, this was such an enjoyable read!

Excited to share our research led by @honeyguide & Mike Sorenson in @PNAS! How does a generalist brood parasite maintain host-specific mimicry in the face of gene flow? Answer: shift the key genes to the female-specific W chromosome. But there are costs! tinyurl.com/2p96bx9s