Angela and Erik were both awarded a Graduate Student AV名湿 Award from the Society of Systematic Biologists!!
This will help fund Erik鈥檚 investigation of the Gray-crowned / Black Rosy-Finch hybrid zone in Montana and Idaho. The money will be used to sequence individuals to evaluate introgression and to better understand the genetic basis of plumage variation in this group.听
Angela鈥檚 award will go toward studies investigating the impacts of parasitism on hosts with varying levels of genetic admixture.
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