Dave Lutgen
@davelutgen.bsky.social
Birder | Monitoring employee @vogelwarte.bsky.social
PhD on Plumage Color Evolution and Spatio-Temporal Hybrid Zone Dynamics in the Black-eared wheatear species complex.
PhD on Plumage Color Evolution and Spatio-Temporal Hybrid Zone Dynamics in the Black-eared wheatear species complex.
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Dave Lutgen
@davelutgen.bsky.social
· Oct 17
1/9 New in @science.org www.science.org/doi/10.1126/science.ado8005
How does genetic architecture constrain evolutionary trajectories? To address this question, we inferred the genetic architecture of convergent plumage coloration and its evolutionary history in wheatears.
How does genetic architecture constrain evolutionary trajectories? To address this question, we inferred the genetic architecture of convergent plumage coloration and its evolutionary history in wheatears.
A mosaic of modular variation at a single gene underpins convergent plumage coloration
The reshuffling of genomic variation from multiple origins is an important contributor to phenotypic diversification, yet insights into the evolutionary trajectories of this combinatorial process and ...
www.science.org
Very very happy to see my PhD work out! Congrats to the whole team 🎉🎉🎉
Reposted by Dave Lutgen
Exciting science news on plumage colouration and genetic variation from our colleagues!
1/9 New in @science.org www.science.org/doi/10.1126/science.ado8005
How does genetic architecture constrain evolutionary trajectories? To address this question, we inferred the genetic architecture of convergent plumage coloration and its evolutionary history in wheatears.
How does genetic architecture constrain evolutionary trajectories? To address this question, we inferred the genetic architecture of convergent plumage coloration and its evolutionary history in wheatears.
A mosaic of modular variation at a single gene underpins convergent plumage coloration
The reshuffling of genomic variation from multiple origins is an important contributor to phenotypic diversification, yet insights into the evolutionary trajectories of this combinatorial process and ...
www.science.org
October 17, 2025 at 6:52 AM
Exciting science news on plumage colouration and genetic variation from our colleagues!
Very very happy to see my PhD work out! Congrats to the whole team 🎉🎉🎉
1/9 New in @science.org www.science.org/doi/10.1126/science.ado8005
How does genetic architecture constrain evolutionary trajectories? To address this question, we inferred the genetic architecture of convergent plumage coloration and its evolutionary history in wheatears.
How does genetic architecture constrain evolutionary trajectories? To address this question, we inferred the genetic architecture of convergent plumage coloration and its evolutionary history in wheatears.
A mosaic of modular variation at a single gene underpins convergent plumage coloration
The reshuffling of genomic variation from multiple origins is an important contributor to phenotypic diversification, yet insights into the evolutionary trajectories of this combinatorial process and ...
www.science.org
October 17, 2025 at 7:10 AM
Very very happy to see my PhD work out! Congrats to the whole team 🎉🎉🎉
Reposted by Dave Lutgen
Really excited to share my first PhD paper about fitness effects of chromosomal inversions!
Using an experimental approach we explored if inversions involved in ecotype divergence in threespine stickleback affect fitness-proxies 1/🧵
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
@heredityjournal.bsky.social
Using an experimental approach we explored if inversions involved in ecotype divergence in threespine stickleback affect fitness-proxies 1/🧵
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
@heredityjournal.bsky.social
Experimental test of the fitness effects of divergent marine–freshwater chromosomal inversions in stickleback under different salinity conditions - Heredity
Heredity - Experimental test of the fitness effects of divergent marine–freshwater chromosomal inversions in stickleback under different salinity conditions
www.nature.com
August 5, 2025 at 11:55 AM
Really excited to share my first PhD paper about fitness effects of chromosomal inversions!
Using an experimental approach we explored if inversions involved in ecotype divergence in threespine stickleback affect fitness-proxies 1/🧵
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
@heredityjournal.bsky.social
Using an experimental approach we explored if inversions involved in ecotype divergence in threespine stickleback affect fitness-proxies 1/🧵
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
@heredityjournal.bsky.social
Reposted by Dave Lutgen
🚨 First PhD chapter is out! My work thus far, with @andy2dobson.bsky.social
We found that formerly common species have declined the fastest, on average.
📄 North American bird declines are driven by reductions in common species | Science Advances www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...
We found that formerly common species have declined the fastest, on average.
📄 North American bird declines are driven by reductions in common species | Science Advances www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...
North American bird declines are driven by reductions in common species
Declines in North American birds are driven not by rare species vanishing but by sharp losses among formerly common species.
www.science.org
July 31, 2025 at 3:18 AM
🚨 First PhD chapter is out! My work thus far, with @andy2dobson.bsky.social
We found that formerly common species have declined the fastest, on average.
📄 North American bird declines are driven by reductions in common species | Science Advances www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...
We found that formerly common species have declined the fastest, on average.
📄 North American bird declines are driven by reductions in common species | Science Advances www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...
Reposted by Dave Lutgen
Your daily Avian Hybrids story!
Choosing between Cerrado and Chaco: Which corridor connected the Andean and Atlantic forest populations of the Buff-browed Foliage Gleaner?
avianhybrids.wordpress.com/2020/02/18/c...
#ornithology
Choosing between Cerrado and Chaco: Which corridor connected the Andean and Atlantic forest populations of the Buff-browed Foliage Gleaner?
avianhybrids.wordpress.com/2020/02/18/c...
#ornithology
Choosing between Cerrado and Chaco: Which corridor connected the Andean and Atlantic forest populations of the Buff-browed Foliage Gleaner?
Genetic study provides several lines of evidence for a Cerrado connection.
avianhybrids.wordpress.com
July 31, 2025 at 1:03 PM
Your daily Avian Hybrids story!
Choosing between Cerrado and Chaco: Which corridor connected the Andean and Atlantic forest populations of the Buff-browed Foliage Gleaner?
avianhybrids.wordpress.com/2020/02/18/c...
#ornithology
Choosing between Cerrado and Chaco: Which corridor connected the Andean and Atlantic forest populations of the Buff-browed Foliage Gleaner?
avianhybrids.wordpress.com/2020/02/18/c...
#ornithology
Reposted by Dave Lutgen
Coming soon! A mid-summer special BOW Discovery Webinar on AVILIST - the world's first unified global checklist of birds. Does this sound good? Would you like to join us?
Stay tuned for more info. Target is late July. We'll do our best to make this during a globally friendly timeslot.
Stay tuned for more info. Target is late July. We'll do our best to make this during a globally friendly timeslot.
June 25, 2025 at 1:46 PM
Coming soon! A mid-summer special BOW Discovery Webinar on AVILIST - the world's first unified global checklist of birds. Does this sound good? Would you like to join us?
Stay tuned for more info. Target is late July. We'll do our best to make this during a globally friendly timeslot.
Stay tuned for more info. Target is late July. We'll do our best to make this during a globally friendly timeslot.
Reposted by Dave Lutgen
A monumental taxonomy unification effort has just been published - thanks to all those who've collaborated for years to make this happen!
birdsoftheworld.org/bow/news/avi...
birdsoftheworld.org/bow/news/avi...
Birds of the World - AviList: A Unified Global Checklist of the World’s Birds is Now Available
AviList, a unified global checklist of birds, that provides the most current and authoritative taxonomy of birds around the world was released today by experts in taxonomy, nomenclature, and bioinform...
birdsoftheworld.org
June 11, 2025 at 4:53 PM
A monumental taxonomy unification effort has just been published - thanks to all those who've collaborated for years to make this happen!
birdsoftheworld.org/bow/news/avi...
birdsoftheworld.org/bow/news/avi...
Reposted by Dave Lutgen
The biggest "meta-analysis" ever? - 17 million effect sizes - elifesciences.org/articles/95857
With wonderful @coreytcallaghan.bsky.social and Will Cornwell
We question the abundance-occupancy relationships using ebird data - we find ~ zero correlation
With wonderful @coreytcallaghan.bsky.social and Will Cornwell
We question the abundance-occupancy relationships using ebird data - we find ~ zero correlation
May 29, 2025 at 5:23 PM
The biggest "meta-analysis" ever? - 17 million effect sizes - elifesciences.org/articles/95857
With wonderful @coreytcallaghan.bsky.social and Will Cornwell
We question the abundance-occupancy relationships using ebird data - we find ~ zero correlation
With wonderful @coreytcallaghan.bsky.social and Will Cornwell
We question the abundance-occupancy relationships using ebird data - we find ~ zero correlation
Reposted by Dave Lutgen
Millions of birds nest in the Arctic each year. But did you know they’ve been doing this since the Cretaceous? Can’t believe I finally get to share that our paper on the birds of the Prince Creek Formation is out in @science.org (and on the cover)! 🧵
Art: Gabriel Ugueto @serpenillus.bsky.social
Art: Gabriel Ugueto @serpenillus.bsky.social
May 29, 2025 at 6:19 PM
Millions of birds nest in the Arctic each year. But did you know they’ve been doing this since the Cretaceous? Can’t believe I finally get to share that our paper on the birds of the Prince Creek Formation is out in @science.org (and on the cover)! 🧵
Art: Gabriel Ugueto @serpenillus.bsky.social
Art: Gabriel Ugueto @serpenillus.bsky.social
Reposted by Dave Lutgen
Congrats to Dr. Dave Lutgen at U Bern for a damn fine dissertation defense today! Keep an eye out for some quality wheatear genomics in the near future, avec Reto Burri and Katie Peichel et al.
May 23, 2025 at 7:48 PM
Congrats to Dr. Dave Lutgen at U Bern for a damn fine dissertation defense today! Keep an eye out for some quality wheatear genomics in the near future, avec Reto Burri and Katie Peichel et al.