⟳ Репост от Jun Ishigohoka

New paper out in Phil. Trans. B! We set out to understand how seasonal migration evolves by combining a common garden experiment and scATAC-seq of the hypothalamus in ancestral migratory and derived resident populations of the Eurasian blackcap. 1/n

Differential epigenetic regulation underlies evolutionary transition of seasonal migrationAbstract. Seasonal migratory animals can evolve residency through adaptation. The threshold model of quantitative genetics predicts that residency evolvesdoi.org