Nice writeup in Smithsonian Voices about our recent manakin work with Mike Braun, along with papers from Kira Long and @verntasco. smithsonianmag.com/blogs/national…

how it feels to recommend "minor revisions"

A new paper with big news in the world of red carotenoid ornamentation: House Finches do not utilize CYP2J19/BDH1L to produce red feather pigments. Why is this big new?...(1/6) doi.org/10.1101/2024.1…

And now we need to find the House Finch ketolase.

✍️ New story on the Avian Hybrids blog! Fruit resources explain the courtship dynamics at White-bearded Manakin leks buff.ly/4fnw5vp Based on the Biology Letters study by Luke Anderson and his colleagues | #ornithology

...except by me who watched it on mute and celebrated while trying to rock a baby to sleep.

After decades of creeping along, carotenoid honest signaling research is moving at warp speed.CYP2J19 & BDH1L localize to ER (not mito) and House Finches do not use CYP2J19. The implications are huge. Paper by Rebecca Koch Matthew Toomey Yufeng Zhang onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10.11…