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Jiwon Heo
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PhD student @U Rochester | Tropbio Lab | Ornithology | Ecology & Evolution | Genomics | 🇰🇷 | https://sites.google.com/view/jiwonheo/home?authuser=0
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Interested in how new sex chromosomes evolve in birds? Our NSF-funded collaborative work with the (Daven) Presgraves lab at @urochester.bsky.social is out this week in @pnas.org. Check it out!

www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/...
August 7, 2025 at 11:28 AM
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At long last, my first paper (ever, first-author, and with @davetoews.bsky.social) is out in @plosone.org 🐦🎶
We quantified and compared song divergence within and between 8 pairs of common North American songbirds—please check it out!
journals.plos.org/plosone/arti...
Comparative bioacoustics of multiple eastern versus western songbird pairs in North America reveals a gradient of song divergence
Vocalizations are one of the key premating reproductive barriers that could affect species formation. In song-learning birds, vocal traits are sometimes overlooked in species delimitation, as compared...
journals.plos.org
December 26, 2024 at 9:12 PM
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Biologists at the University of Rochester are calling a discovery they made in a mysterious region of the chromosome known as the centromere a potential game-changer in the field of chromosome biology uofr.us/3ORe9P1

#URochesterResearch
Centromeres could be ‘hotspots’ for evolutionary innovation
New research reveals that centromeres, which are responsible for proper cell division, can rapidly reorganize over short time scales.
uofr.us
December 13, 2024 at 1:27 PM
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Happy holidays from @tropbiolab.bsky.social! We enjoyed our ugly sweater-themed
farewell party for wonderful Elsie and Ferro.

Grateful for #teamwasp and #teambird!
December 8, 2024 at 3:49 PM