A new paper in Evolution by research associate Leonardo Campagna explores the genomic mechanisms that have led to the evolution of flightlessness in the Patagonian steamer ducks. The different steamer duck species vary in their morphology, representing a continuum between the conditions allowing flight and those resulting in flightlessness. Whereas most…
A new paper in Molecular Ecology by Conor Taff, Leonardo Campagna and Maren Vitousek explores whether patterns of methylation across the whole genome are related to variation in stress resilience in tree swallows. The paper includes the first draft genome for this species and finds differentially methylated areas associated to different predictors of…
Congratulations to PhD candidate Stepfanie Aguillon for being awarded a prestigious year-long fellowship from the American Association of University Women! Stepfanie joins a select group of 23 previous Cornell awardees since 2004, including four past PhD candidates from our Ecology & Evolutionary Biology Department.
Postdoc Nati Garcia has a new paper out in Behavioral Ecology entitled What have we recently learned about song learning and social interactions? Abstract: Vocal learning in birds is a complex animal behavior with several parallels to vocal learning in humans. Early experiments in the 70s showing that juvenile birds…
Like many professional organizations, the American Ornithology Society only works because so many people volunteer their time and effort. I am particularly proud of the many ways that members of our Lab group contributed to the conference in Anchorage beyond giving scientific talks and posters: Leo Campagna: Judge for student…
Cecilia Estalles will visit our lab for the summer to work on her dissertation on capuchino seedeaters. Adult capuchino males of different species vary in coloration across various patches and usually many patches change together at the same time. During her stay in Ithaca she will work with Leo Campagna to…
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…