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Mary Caswell Stoddard

Princeton UniversityORCID 0000-0001-8264-3170Unclaimed ORCID profile · follow to get notified of new preprints

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Research Focus:development & morphogenesis· 1 Approach:experimental assay· 1 Organism:multiple species· 1

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Evolutionary BiologyJournal of The Royal Society InterfacePeer-reviewedMay 20, 2026

Historical contingency influences the diversity of feather nanostructures in cuckoos

Klara Katarina Nordén, Christopher R. Cooney, Frane Babarović, Mary Caswell Stoddard

The paper investigates how historical contingency affects feather nanostructure diversity in cuckoos, finding that specialized melanosomes are present in both metallic and drab plumage, suggesting retained traits can facilitate future evolution of metallic luster.

DOI 10.1098/rsif.2025.1024

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