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Machaeropterus deliciosus) and its relatives. Murray Cooper/Minden Pictures
The genes behind the sexiest birds on the planet
Mar. 3, 2021 , 1:00 PM
For a glimpse of the power of sexual selection, the dance of the golden-collared manakin is hard to beat. Each June in the rainforests of Panama, the sparrow-size male birds gather to fluff their brilliant yellow throats, lift their wings, and clap them together in rapid fire, up to 60 times a second. When a female favors a male with her attention, he follows up with acrobatic leaps, more wing snaps, and perhaps a split-second, twisting backflip. “If manakins were human, they would be among the greatest artists, athletes, and socialites in our society,” says Ignacio Moore, an integrative organismal biologist at Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University.
February 16, 2021 Unable to conduct summer research in France, Princeton Vaughn ’22 instead visited Cincinnati, Ohio, to explore how the common wall lizard has adapted since being introduced there from Italy in the 1950s.
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Agile Adaptation By Cole Hatcher
Their plan was to travel to southern France to study how a local lizard is responding to climate change.
Though the pandemic prevented Ohio Wesleyan University’s
Sierra Spears ’22,
Princeton Vaughn ’22, and assistant professor of zoology
Eric Gangloff from visiting the Pyrenees mountains this summer, the quick-thinking trio followed the lizard’s example – and adapted.
In the months since their trip was canceled, the OWU scientists have successfully completed multiple related research projects that could be conducted without international travel, presented their findings at the 2021 Society for Integrative and Comparative Biology meeting, and begun drafting two papers
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