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Historical Contingency Shapes Toxin Resistance in a Specialist Avian Predator
Shabnam Mohammadi, S. Pradhan, Federico G. Hoffmann…·Hannah M. Rowland
This study identifies molecular mechanisms of toxin resistance in black-headed grosbeaks through functional assays and ancestral protein resurrection, showing how historical contingency and epistasis shape adaptation.
DOI 10.1101/2025.07.04.662692