Songbirds have an extra chromosome that was believed to be maternally inherited. A team led by Bart Kempenaers & Alexander Suh 서상재 shows that it can also be paternally inherited – a key step in understanding the evolution of this chromosome. pnas.org/content/119/4/… Yifan Pei @PNASnews

Thanks all the amazing people involved in this collaborative work including Yifan Pei, Alexander Suh 서상재 and others not in Twitter. Max Planck Society UEA @biouea @UU_University Systematic Biology Programme Marie Skłodowska-Curie Actions Link: pnas.org/content/119/4/…