Matthew J. Fuxjager

The paper shows that coordination errors in animal collectives can generate directional selection on social and sensorimotor traits by linking error frequency and severity to phenotypic variation.

This study models the evolutionary history of over 1100 myosin heavy-chain proteins across vertebrates, revealing repeated gene duplication-loss turnover and independent evolution of core myosin subfamilies in each major vertebrate group.

The paper examines muscle fatigue resistance in brood parasitic cowbirds and host warblers, finding cowbirds have greater fatigue resistance in begging displays.

The paper generates genome assemblies for ten brood parasitic bird species and their outgroups, enabling comparative genomic analyses of obligate brood parasitism evolution.