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Justyna Kubacka
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Museum and Institute of Zoology PAS @mizpas.bsky.social · 2d
Join the upcoming on-line MIZ PAS seminar!
👉When: 10th Oct (Friday), 12:00 pm CET
👉Speaker: Dr Grzegorz Neubauer, MIZ PAS @mizpas.bsky.social
👉Title: "50 years of Białowieża Forest bird studies: past, present, future”
👉Link: tinyurl.com/3jztwhyk
Everyone is welcome!
#ornithology #forest
Białowieża Forest, Poland
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Museum and Institute of Zoology PAS @mizpas.bsky.social · 2d
Darwin posited that innate and learned signals could be evolutionarily related. A new paper in @natecoevo.nature.com, co-authored by Alfredo Attisano, Roman Gula & Jörn Theuerkauf of @mizpas.bsky.social, demonstrates that a learned brood parasite vocalisation induces an innate response in the host.
Learned use of an innate sound-meaning association in birds - Nature Ecology & Evolution
Over 20 species of geographically and phylogenetically diverse bird species produce convergent whining vocalizations towards their respective brood parasites. Model presentation and playback experiments across multiple continents suggest that these learned calls provoke an innate response even among allopatric species.
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Justyna Kubacka @justynakubacka.bsky.social · 7d
My WGS🧬project on Aquatic Warbler shows:
👉 Recent genetic bottleneck and low diversity
👉 Elevated inbreeding in declining westernmost population
👉 Growing inbreeding in core population
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An Aquatic Warbler from Western Pomerania, Poland, a previously nearly extinct population that is now under restoration. Photo: J. Kubacka Temporal changes in the effective population size of two Aquatic Warbler populations: a large core metapopulation, represented by the Biebrza Valley subpopulation (sampled in 2018), and a small westernmost declining population, West Pomerania (sampled in 1999). The analysis was run with the GONE software. The current effective population sizes in the three populations sampled. Long runs of homozygosity (>1Mb) in the three sampled populations: Biebrza in 1997; Biebrza in 2018; and West Pomerania in 1999. Long ROHs are indicative of recent inbreeding.
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Museum and Institute of Zoology PAS @mizpas.bsky.social · Apr 23
Join the upcoming on-line MIZ PAS seminar!
👉When: 25th April (Friday), 12:00 pm CET
👉Speaker: Dr. Stephen Venn, Łódź University, Poland
👉Title: "The functional diversity of beetle assemblages of park habitats in Warsaw”
👉Link: tinyurl.com/a4ssayb8
Everyone is welcome!
#entomology #diversity #urban
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Justyna Kubacka @justynakubacka.bsky.social · Mar 26
Happy to share my recently published paper! In male aquatic warblers (Acrocephalus paludicola) males that more frequently sang aggressive songs used to deter other males had more nestlings and were more likely to contract avian malaria, and males with more diverse song were in better condition.
Agonistic song rate positively correlates with male breeding success and avian malaria infection in Acrocephalus paludicola (Aquatic Warbler), a promiscuous songbird with female-only parental care
ABSTRACT. The link between male song and reproductive success has been explored at length in socially monogamous birds, but results were inconsistent and u
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