Next lab meeting: Samantha will give a talk about "Temporal pattern of avian malaria in house sparrows”. Welcome!

Always nice with recaptures. Especially when they’re from an experiment. And especially when you catch both control (purple) and treatment (green) groups! #ornithology #ringing @Biology_LU

Next lab meeting: Bengt has promised to show some fantastic pictures from his field trip to Kazakhstan! Welcome!

Last lab meeting of the semester: Visiting Prof. Cesar Martins from São Paulo State University, Brazil will give a talk about "Fishing for B chromosome effects". Welcome!

Now out: our experimental manipulation of oxidative stress using hyperoxia during embryo development jeb.biologists.org/content/221/13… Journal of Experimental Biology Pablo Salmón Caroline Isaksson #ornithology

Info: I (Elin Videvall) created this Twitter account and have managed it for a few years now. Recently I left MEEL & Lund to start a postdoc in Washington DC. I've yet to find a replacement to take over. Until then, there'll be fewer tweets from MEEL. Thanks for understanding! 🙂

Differences in immune responses create a genetic conflict between sexes: bit.ly/2Mbr78l #biology Royal Society Publishing

Roved et al. Evidence for sexual conflict over major histocompatibility complex diversity in a wild songbird. rspb.royalsocietypublishing.org/content/285/18…

Antioxidant upregulation is not always sufficient to avoid oxidative damage in urban-reared great tit nestlings - our latest paper led by Pablo Salmón academic.oup.com/icb/advance-ar… @Biology_LU Andreas Nord Caroline Isaksson #ornithology #UrbanEcology

Is helping family members purely altruistic? rspb.royalsocietypublishing.org/content/285/18…

Huang et al. The success of sequence capture in relation to phylogenetic distance from a reference genome: a case study of avian haemosporidian parasites. sciencedirect.com/science/articl…

Sigeman et al. Insights into Avian Incomplete Dosage Compensation: Sex-Biased Gene Expression Coevolves with Sex Chromosome Degeneration in the Common Whitethroat. mdpi.com/2073-4425/9/8/…

Neto et al. Inconclusive evidence for rapid adaptive evolution. nature.com/articles/s4146…

Earlier this autumn, Xi Huang defended her PhD thesis "Diversity of avian haemosporidian parasites: Host specificity, genetic structure and infection patterns" Congratulations Dr. Huang! portal.research.lu.se/portal/en/publ…

Exciting PhD defense on avian MHC genes by Anna Drews and the opponent Tobias Lenz Tobias L Lenz, here introduced by the examiner Dennis Hasselquist.

No lab meeting this week because of the holidays.

Next lab meeting: Saranda Sherifi will give a talk on “MHC diversity in flycatchers”. Welcome!

Ferraguti et al. Ecological determinants of avian malaria infections: An integrative analysis at landscape, mosquito and vertebrate community levels. besjournals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/abs/10.111…

Our experimental induction of an oxidative challenge using hyperoxia showed that the avian yolk takes the hit and buffers the embryo from elevated #OxidativeStress Journal of Experimental Biology w/ Pablo Salmón & Caroline Isaksson @Biology_LU jeb.biologists.org/content/early/… #ornithology

Next lab meeting: Arif will give a talk about "New detection method for mixed infections of avian haemosporidians". Welcome!