Here is just a small sample of links to third-party commentaries and articles on Jake’s avian phylogeny study: http://www.nature.com/nature/journal/vaop/ncurrent/full/nature15638.html http://www.reuters.com/article/2015/10/07/us-science-birds-idUSKCN0S124U20151007 http://www.nature.com/nature/journal/vaop/ncurrent/full/nature15638.html http://www.voanews.com/content/scientists-unveil-comprehensive-bird-family-tree/2995915.html
Congrats to postdoc Leo Campagna for making the cover of Molecular Ecology with his most recent research paper on seedeaters!
Redpolls hit the news, part III … Nick and Scott’s redpoll study has been available for a while in Molecular Ecology’s pre-publication website and it has garnered an impressive amount of outside attention, including coverage in the news section of Science (http://www.sciencemagazinedigital.org/sciencemagazine/17_april_2015?pg=44#pg44), and various popular media outlets and blogs like…
Redpoll study hits the news, part I… The paper on redpoll genomics and transcriptomics by grad Nick Mason and postdoc Scott Taylor is now published in Molecular Ecology: http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/mec.13140/abstract
Redpoll study hits the news, part II… Nick and Scott’s redpoll paper was paired with a nice commentary piece by Jan Lifjeld at http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/mec.13244/full … “… Mason & Taylor (2015), using a large data set of genomewide SNPs, verify that [the redpolls] all belong to a single gene pool with…
This all-species phylogeny for the nine-primaried oscine passerines (a clade of about 800 species of warblers, orioles, blackbirds, tanagers, cardinals, sparrows, and related birds) is the result of a long collaboration between our lab and colleagues at three other institutions.
You can read more about Jake’s study of continga relationships here: http://us2.campaign-archive1.com/?u=b35ddb671faf4a16c0ce32406&id=e46626901d&e=0011c99ba8
Daniel Baldassarre’s paper on extra pair mating in the Australian red-backed fairy-wren is published and Dan and Mike are featured in the popular press! “Fooled by a sharpie! Cheating birds steered to fidelity with red marker” NBC News “Painted fairy wrens quite the casanova” ABC News Australia “Cheating Fairywrens” AAAS…