Loggerhead shrike pop-gen + geometric morphometrics manuscript published in Ecology and Evolution!

Location means ± SE along bivariate phenotypic (left side) and genetic (right side) spaces: (a) The first two principal component axes of upper beak shape, including shape deformation grids showing shape differences along the extremes of each axis; (b) log10 bite force vs. log10 body mass; (c) the first two axes of the genetic principal component analysis based on microsatellite data; (d) the second and third axes of the genetic PCA. Symbol color and shape combinations correspond to different sampling locations throughout California labeled on the map (individual data points are semi-transparent).

Our manuscript that describes phenotypic differences despite the presence of little population structure and lots of gene flow between Californian populations of the loggerhead shrike, Lanius ludovicianus is now published in Ecology and Evolution! Congratulations to Sethuraman Lab alum, Gwen Wulf on this publication! Read the paper here.