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And here it is! Our study identifies both inland tectonic and environmental factors that were the likely drivers of diversification in rice paddy #snakes. Now in Scientific Reports nature.com/articles/s4159… 1/4

Check out triangulaR, my new R package for building triangle plots! I explore how sample size of parental pops and allele frequency difference thresholds influence hybrid index and interclass heterozygosity estimates, see more here: github.com/omys-omics/tri… biorxiv.org/content/10.110…

Exciting new R package from Ben Wiens with simple and clearly defined functions for building triangle plots from empirical genomic datasets. If you are interested in descriptive popgen approaches for quantifying hybridization, check this out!

Reduced hybrid survival in a migratory divide between songbirds | Ecology Letters onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/el… #ornithology

Excited to share our pre-print for a shiny new Florida-Scrub Jay genome assembly and annotation! Long-read sequencing and a linkage map helped us add ~260 Mb of sequence and find a few more chromosomes in comparison to previous assemblies. Nancy Chen 陳嵐欣 ✨🧬 biorxiv.org/content/10.110…

Congrats to former KU postdoctoral researcher Tyrone Lavery and members of the KU Ornithology Division - Robert Moyle, Devon DeRaad, & Lucas DeCicco, on releasing a journal article about a rare evolutionary phenomenon occurring in bats.🦇 phys.org/news/2024-04-s… via Phys.org

A genomic basis of vocal rhythm in birds | Nature Communications nature.com/articles/s4146…

I agree with every word Brian McGill writes. Academic publishing is a mess, we are publishing too much, and letting for-profit publishers drive us into the ground. And we’re all complicit in this!

Excited to share this new paper led by Moyle Lab postdoc Stephen Baca out now in Systematic Entomology titled "A shallow-scale phylogenomics approach reveals repeated patterns of diversification among sympatric lineages of cryptic Neotropical aquatic beetles" resjournals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10.11…

Genomic patterns in the dwarf kingfishers of northern Melanesia reveal a mechanistic framework explaining the paradox of the great speciators | Evolution Letters | academic.oup.com/evlett/advance… | #ornithology

Island chains offer a laboratory for observing changes over time as species adapt to environmental differences ... great read on dwarf kingfishers from Devon DeRaad and the ornithology team at KU Natural History Museum, viewable for free thanks to #OpenAccess deals.

The first chapter of my dissertation is available on bioRxiv. We resequenced genomes of all species (& subspecies) of rapidly radiating genus of Indo-pacific kingfishers. biorxiv.org/content/10.110…

Brand new manuscript, led by Lucas DeCicco "Phylogeography of the Island Leaf Warbler Reveals Rapid Secondary Sympatry or Ecological Speciation". Totally open access in SSB Bulletin, learn more about the complex evolutionary history of this iconic group: ssbbulletin.org/index.php/bssb…

✍️New story on the #AvianHybrids blog! Why are there only three species of Emerald Doves? avianhybrids.wordpress.com/2024/11/20/why… Based on the Molecular Phylogenetics and Evolution paper by Devon DeRaad et al. | #ornithology