Daniel on structural variants in a finch hybrid zone

As part of the AOS conference co-organized by Stepfanie, Jen, and Gemma, postdoc Daniel Hooper presented on his ongoing investigations of the Long-tailed Finch hybrid zone in northern Australia. Daniel’s talk featured an overview of the potential importance for speciation of structural rearrangements within chromosomes, a potentially largely overlooked level…

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Stepfanie on flicker hybrids and their coloration genes

PhD student Stepfanie Aguillon presented a talk in the AOS conference hybridization symposium that she herself co-organized. Stepfanie’s talk addressed patterns of differentiation across the Northern Flicker hybrid zone, and her whole-genome approaches to discovering the specific genetic basis of the plumage traits that so clearly distinguish Yellow-shafted from Red-shafted…

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