THE SIN LAB

Very excited to share a study on the molecular mechanism for the vivid parrot plumage color! We have discovered that a single enzyme is...

Link Abstract Studies of widely distributed species can inform our understanding of how past demographic events tied to historic...

Link Abstract Parrots have remarkable plumage coloration that result in part from a unique ability to produce pigments called...

Link Abstract Island organisms often evolve phenotypes divergent from their mainland counterparts, providing a useful system for studying...

Link Abstract Echolocation, the detection of objects by means of sound waves, has evolved independently in diverse animals. Echolocators...

We discovered low prevalences of chytrid fungi Bsal and Bd infection on Hong Kong newts and sympatric amphibian species in Hong Kong....

Using whole-genome analyses, we reported that the past population fluctuations of the North Pacific Albatrosses was potentially linked to...

By applying low-coverage whole genome sequencing to historical specimens of ~100-year-old, we resolved the phylogeny of lovebirds...

Red ornamentation is an important sexual signal in male red-backed fairywrens. Elevated testosterone in their bodies upregulates...

Excited to share our study on the association between bat flies and their host bats. Bat flies are obligate parasites specialized to...

The evolution of major histocompatibility complex (MHC) genes in a mammal is driven by both balancing selection and genetic drift. Link...

Dietary diversity of multiple shorebird species in an Asian subtropical wetland unveiled by DNA metabarcoding Link Abstract Global...

Using long-read sequencing, we discovered a fusion between chromosome 5 and the Z chromosome to form a neo-Z chromosome in the Blue-faced...

Females of the White-shouldered fairywren are ornamented in some populations. This is an amazing system to understand the evolution of...

In a highly scented seabird, volatile chemicals from bird feathers encode information about the MHC genes. It suggests a role for body...

We discovered copy number variation (CNV) of MHC genes in this paper. qPCR and depth-of-coverage analysis reveal intra-specific CNV. WGS...

This is the first study of transcriptomes of avian olfactory epithelium. We identified OR genes that were differentially expressed...

https://www.frontiersin.org/articles/10.3389/fmars.2021.752806/full Title DNA Metabarcoding Revealed Interspecific Dietary Difference and...

We studied their faecal DNA using DNA metabarcoding, and revealed a broad dietary spectrum. The large intraspecific variations between...

https://doi.org/10.1016/j.gecco.2021.e01784 Title Global trade in parrots – Influential factors of trade and implications for...

Great to see this interesting paper led by Maude Baldwin and Yasuka Toda is out! It shows an early origin of sweet perception in...

Devin has won the Summer Research Fellowship 2021 and is studying the microbiome of amphibians.

https://www.journals.uchicago.edu/doi/10.1086/714079 Title Demographic History, Not Mating System, Explains Signatures of Inbreeding and...

https://www.g3journal.org/content/10/10/3541 Title De Novo Assembly of the Northern Cardinal (Cardinalis cardinalis) Genome Reveals...

So glad to see the first paper from my student is out! It’s the first solely from our lab. Well done Derek! https://link.springer.com/art...

Happy to share our preprint on the Northern Cardinal genome and the study of its CYP2J19 genomic region. There seems to be a strong...

Our Raso lark paper is out. It’s great to work with Elisa Dierickx et al. on this interesting project! https://doi.org/10.1098/rspb.2019....

Happy to share our work on olfactory receptor subgenome and expression in a highly olfactory procellariiform seabird...

Happy to share this work with Elisa Dierickx et al. on how neo-sex chromosomes and demography have shaped genetic diversity in a...