María Recuerda

The paper investigates plumage diversity in Capuchino Seedeaters by analyzing gene expression and variants, finding that pigmentation differences arise from regulatory changes rather than differential gene expression.

The paper shows that avian immunoglobulin loci use gene conversion instead of V(D)J recombination, with rapid evolution of inversions that generate pseudogenes as donors for antibody diversity.

This study investigates the evolutionary history of the Southern House Wren and its insular relative in southern South America, revealing latitudinal divergence and the role of glaciations in speciation.

The paper uses a pangenome of Capuchino Seedeaters to show that small SNPs and indels, not large structural variants, drive species divergence and plumage diversity.