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Jente Ottenburghs | Avian Hybrids @jenteo.bsky.social · 19h

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Mixing Motmots: A hybrid between Rufous and Amazonian Motmot in Brazil
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Mixing Motmots: A hybrid between Rufous and Amazonian Motmot in Brazil

The hybrid resembles a Rufous Motmot but has some peculiar plumage patterns.

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Jente Ottenburghs | Avian Hybrids @jenteo.bsky.social · 1d

New story on the Avian Hybrids blog!

A song of ice and forest: Genomic analyses uncover a hybrid zone between Palm Warbler subspecies
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Based on the Molecular Ecology paper by Gihyun Yoo and Jason Weir | #ornithology

A song of ice and forest: Genomic analyses uncover a hybrid zone between Palm Warbler subspecies

But why is speciation less common in eastern North America?

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Jente Ottenburghs | Avian Hybrids @jenteo.bsky.social · 1d

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The genomics of local adaptation in Blue Tits
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The genomics of local adaptation in Blue Tits

Understanding the evolutionary history of the populations helps to pinpoint locally adapted genes.

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Jente Ottenburghs | Avian Hybrids @jenteo.bsky.social · 2d

✍ New blog post! Avoiding Negativity Bias in the Digital Age
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Why do a few negative comments stick more than a hundred positive ones? That is negativity bias. I wrote a blog post about how it plays out on social media and what helps me deal with it.

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Jente Ottenburghs | Avian Hybrids @jenteo.bsky.social · 2d

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Mitochondrial capture in the Chestnut Quail-thrush: Neutral or adaptive introgression?
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Mitochondrial capture in the Chestnut Quail-thrush: Neutral or adaptive introgression?

Genetic study tries to solve this mitochondrial mystery.

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Elham Nourani @enourani.bsky.social · 3d

🦅PhD position 🦅 in my new group at @fbm-unil.bsky.social in Switzerland, studying how the social and resource landscapes shape the learning process for soaring flight. Deadline: Oct 30. Pls repost! career5.successfactors.eu/career?caree...

Golden eagle on the nest in Finland (by O. Karlin)

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Jente Ottenburghs | Avian Hybrids @jenteo.bsky.social · 4d

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How many ancestral species gave rise to the domestic chicken breeds?
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How many ancestral species gave rise to the domestic chicken breeds?

Genomic data provide an answer to this long-standing debate?

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Jente Ottenburghs | Avian Hybrids @jenteo.bsky.social · 5d

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The Great Speciator strikes again: Discovery of a Mangrove White-eye in Saudi Arabia
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The Great Speciator strikes again: Discovery of a Mangrove White-eye in Saudi Arabia

A mangrove population of White-eyes is morphologically distinct from other subspecies of the Abyssinian White-eye.

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Jente Ottenburghs | Avian Hybrids @jenteo.bsky.social · 6d

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Building bowers and phylogenies: Genomic study reconstructs the complex evolution of bowerbirds
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Building bowers and phylogenies: Genomic study reconstructs the complex evolution of bowerbirds

Phylogenomic analyses suggest that the ability to build bowers arose twice.

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Jente Ottenburghs | Avian Hybrids @jenteo.bsky.social · 7d

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Following the Forests: How the Variable Antshrike spread around the Amazon
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Following the Forests: How the Variable Antshrike spread around the Amazon

Genetic analyses help to explain the peculiar circum-Amazonian distribution of this species.

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Jente Ottenburghs | Avian Hybrids @jenteo.bsky.social · 8d

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The hidden effects of genetic purging in Galápagos Mockingbirds
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Based on the Molecular Ecology study by Jakub Vlček, Sebastian Espinoza-Ulloa and their colleagues | #ornithology

The hidden effects of genetic purging in Galápagos Mockingbirds

Exploring patterns of genetic load across island populations.

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Jente Ottenburghs | Avian Hybrids @jenteo.bsky.social · 8d

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Is prezygotic isolation more important than postzygotic isolation at the onset of speciation?
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Is prezygotic isolation more important than postzygotic isolation at the onset of speciation?

A simulation study casts doubt on this common statement.

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BOU @bou.org.uk · 9d

Assignment of wintering Barnacle Geese (Branta leucopsis) to breeding populations using genome-wide single-nucleotide polymorphisms | link.springer.com/ar... | Journal of Ornithology | #ornithology 🪶

Assignment of wintering Barnacle Geese (Branta leucopsis) to breeding populations using genome-wide single-nucleotide polymorphisms

Journal of Ornithology - Migratory birds often traverse thousands of kilometers, yet some individuals may abandon migration and form sedentary populations—a process termed ‘migratory...

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Jente Ottenburghs | Avian Hybrids @jenteo.bsky.social · 9d

✍️New blog post! Beyond the Headlines: How Science Really Works
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Science isn’t all about breakthroughs and crises. Most progress comes from small insights, new methods, and even negative results.

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Jente Ottenburghs | Avian Hybrids @jenteo.bsky.social · 9d

Unfortunately not. My focus has shifted more to teaching and research on other birds groups. Although I still want to explore these taxa...

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Jente Ottenburghs | Avian Hybrids @jenteo.bsky.social · 9d

Happy Goose Day! 🤩 Perfect opportunity to share my PhD research on the evolutionary history of these wonderful birds.

More details in these papers:
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bmcecolevol.biomedcentral.com/articles/10....
frontiersinzoology.biomedcentral.com/articles/10....

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Jente Ottenburghs | Avian Hybrids @jenteo.bsky.social · 9d

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A common species with a complex history: The evolutionary story of the Great Tit
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A common species with a complex history: The evolutionary story of the Great Tit

Genetic study uncovers five distinct groups within this widely distributed songbird.

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Jente Ottenburghs | Avian Hybrids @jenteo.bsky.social · 10d

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How and when did Frogmouths cross Wallace’s Line?
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How and when did Frogmouths cross Wallace’s Line?

Analyses of mitochondrial genomes might provide the answer.

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Jente Ottenburghs | Avian Hybrids @jenteo.bsky.social · 11d

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Inferring introgression: Genomic study on hybridizing Darwin’s Finches highlights the importance of field observations
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Inferring introgression: Genomic study on hybridizing Darwin’s Finches highlights the importance of field observations

Explaining patterns of introgression required a thorough knowledge of the study system.

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Jente Ottenburghs | Avian Hybrids @jenteo.bsky.social · 12d

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Uncovering cryptic diversity in the lesser short-toed lark species complex
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Uncovering cryptic diversity in the lesser short-toed lark species complex

Genetic analyses reveal several distinct lineages within this morphologically uniform bird group.

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Jente Ottenburghs | Avian Hybrids @jenteo.bsky.social · 13d

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Non-coding DNA drives the evolution of avian beak morphology
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Non-coding DNA drives the evolution of avian beak morphology

“Living things do not inherit skulls, backbones, or cell layers from their ancestors—they inherit the processes to build them.”

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Jente Ottenburghs | Avian Hybrids @jenteo.bsky.social · 14d

Nice SciShow-video with many examples of studies using "fake birds" (i.e. decoys or dummies). #ornithology
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These Birds Aren’t Real

YouTube video by SciShow

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Jente Ottenburghs | Avian Hybrids @jenteo.bsky.social · 14d

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Figuring out the origin of two Fire-eye Antbird species in the Atlantic Forest
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Figuring out the origin of two Fire-eye Antbird species in the Atlantic Forest

Genetic study uncovers a complicated series of events.

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Jente Ottenburghs | Avian Hybrids @jenteo.bsky.social · 14d

cc: @niooknaw.bsky.social

Jente Ottenburghs | Avian Hybrids @jenteo.bsky.social · 14d

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Neo-sex chromosomes shape introgression patterns in Honeyeaters
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Based on the PLoS Genetics paper by Elsie Shogren and her colleagues | #ornithology

Neo-sex chromosomes shape introgression patterns in Honeyeaters

We need more than Haldane’s Rule to explain these findings.

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