Jen Walsh on the many ways birds can adapt to live in salt marshes

A new paper in Evolution Letters by lab postdoc Jennifer Walsh studies multiple independent cases of adaptation to salt marsh environments, evaluating weather adaptations are species-specific or convergent. The study focuses on four species of North American sparrows that represent four independent, post‐Pleistocene colonization events by an ancestral, upland subspecies and…

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Welcome Callum McDiarmid!

Callum is a PhD student from Macquarie University in Australia and will be visiting the Fuller Lab for six months on a Fulbright scholarship. His PhD research investigates speciation using the long-tailed finch Poephila acuticauda, encompassing the naturally occurring hybrid zone in the Kimberley region, detailed behavioural and physiological experiments in…

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Congreso de Ornitología de las Américas in Puerto Iguazú, Argentina!

Leo Campagna organizes a full day symposium to showcase the latest genomic advances in Neotropical taxa. The symposium featured 14 talks given by people from five different countries on phylogenomics, deep scale phylogenetics and phenotype/genotype associations. The list of presentations included Jake Berv and Leo Campagna (x2) from our lab,…

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