New paper out. If you like colorful birds, hybridization, and phylogenetics, read on! 🧵https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pbio.3003501

Fun to collaborate with @whalesmels.bsky.social on this study, where we worked with Mark Stanback to glean insights from his amazing hornbill nesting data! 🪶

Early view: we find that brown anole lizards are one of, if not the most, lead tolerant vertebrates known to science combining measures of field exposure, responses to lab dosing, performance assays and functional genomics. Led by PhD student Annelise Blanchette www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

We made the cover www.nature.com/articles/s41...

New work from the lab! Annelise Blanchette found that brown anole lizards may be the most lead (pb) tolerant vertebrate known to date by integrating physiological studies of field and lab exposed animals and transcriptomics #urbanecology #ecotox #anolis 🦎 1/n www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...

Awesome new manakin work by @kevinfpbennett.bsky.social et al! BCO2 controls collar pigmentation in Manacus manakins, and the pigmented-collar allele arose in one species, introgressed into a second, and kept on introgressin’ from the second species into a third 🧬🪶

Excited to share that my first dissertation chapter has been published in Biology Letters! "Fruit resources shape sexual selection processes in a lek mating system" Check it out at: royalsocietypublishing.org/doi/10.1098/...

Fieldwork on Christmas Day => red and green color bands 🎄🪶

Eyelash palm-pitviper (Bothriechis schlegelii), Ecuadorian Chocó.

Awesome to witness this bushmaster surgery at Reserva FCAT! Bushmasters are the longest vipers in the world, and researchers here are implanting radio transmitters to track the snakes’ movements, with goals of understanding their basic biology and reducing human-wildlife conflict in NW Ecuador.

Finally made it over to Bsky! I suppose it’s only fitting to kick things off with a manakin pic..