@brown_birds @thebirdmaniac @jrossibarra @jgschraiber @JJ_Emerson Genome size in birds varies some (~2 fold), but not much relative to many other amniotes and especially plants. @coereba has a nice paper that has a phylogeny with estimates of ancestral gen
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@METHYLPROPENE https://t.co/GCdfnJ6ZWG https://t.co/1FvqiMWyg7 https://t.co/FByNPPHdLu My take is the synthesis of 3 bleeding edge scientific takes that are currently disputed (that is, respected scientests disagree with them), even though they make intuit
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RT @carlzimmer: @FreglisPlethon It’s not just speculation. Here’s a study that finds genome size goes down as relative flight muscle size g…
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@FreglisPlethon It’s not just speculation. Here’s a study that finds genome size goes down as relative flight muscle size goes up https://t.co/U6z4nILAhQ