Maria Isabel Castaño

Preparing for the next field season! Excited to finish sampling the multiple Flame-rumped/Lemon-rumped Tanagers hybrid zones and test our 3D printed models 🤩🇨🇴 (those rump feathers though 😮‍💨) @cdanielcadena @TropBioLab

Replicate avian hybrid zones reveal the progression of genetic and trait introgression through time | our latest, led by the amazing maria isabel castaño #cienciacriolla biorxiv.org/content/10.110…

Go check our paper if you want to know more about these enigmatic genomes! nature.com/articles/s4159…

In this paper we report the first long read de novo genome assembly and annotation for a male Xenos peckii and one of the smallest insect genomes reported up to date! We also assembled the mitogenome and identified two contigs with X-linked coverage patterns.

🚨 Back on X to share that our paper with @AvispaTica at @TropBioLab was published @ScientificData! I wanted to learn bioinformatics during my first year PhD rotation, and we ended up doing the first long read de novo genome assembly of a whole order of insects! #Strepsiptera

@NicolasGalvisR 🤨 qué!!!!

Hoy una señora homofóbica me gritó, en la calle, que era una loca y luego me amenazó con que ella “tenía un hijo en el Concejo de Bogotá”. Lo qué hay que presenciar en esta ciudad 🫠

@rmp033 @VT_Biology 🥳🥳🥳🥳

The Márquez lab will set up shop at @VT_Biology in the fall of 2024, and will soon be looking for *two* 2-3 year postdocs and a lab/animal care tech (job ads coming soon).

@jacanamama Thank you Sara 😁

Exciting hybrid zone research on flame-rumped tanagers by @MariaCastanoGal including RNAseq of red, orange, and yellow feathers and carotenoid-related genes. #AOS_SCO23. Fascinating system, rockstar scientist!

@AvispaTica @UofR 🤩🤩🤩🤩🤩 congratulations!

@DoctorScience7 Amazing! 🤩so cool to see this out! 🎉 congrats!

@VanessaLuzuria5 Can I please get the link? 🥳

Birds handled with all the proper permits by the Colombian government.

We made it! Three months of fieldwork, massive landslides, amazing Colombian landscapes and more than 130 Flame-rumped Tanagers 🔥 ready for some 🧬🤓

@evornithology 🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥

😭😭😭 This is such an amazing system. Watch this space!!!

@evornithology @TropBioLab @cdanielcadena Such an amazing place omg!!! I’m still mind blown 🤓😵‍💫

@MariaCastanoGal @TropBioLab @cdanielcadena WOW

Today we caught all these birds in the same locality. What lies behind the phenotype of the Flame and Lemon rumps? Stay tuned to know more 🤯 @TropBioLab @cdanielcadena

Today we banded the 50th Ramphocelus of this field season! Amazing Tanagers and amazing landscapes of my beautiful Colombia❤️ 🇨🇴

@evornithology Once I know what up with the Flame-rumped/Lemon-rumped… genetic basis of Carotenoid coloration!

I’m thinking about editing a popular science book on bird color. If I did, would you be interested in contributing a chapter? If so, what would you want to write about? #colsci #birdtwitter 📷 David Turko, eBird