Publications of the department "Evolution of Sensory and Physiological Systems"

Spencer D. Balay, Gregory C. Nordmann, Simon Nimpf, E. Pascal Malkemper, Lukas Landler, and David A. Keays, "Protocol for whole-brain immunolabeling, clearing, and light-sheet imaging of C-FOS in the pigeon," STAR Protocols 7 (2), 104462 (2026).

Lily G. Fogg, Maxime Policarpo, and Walter Salzburger, "Evolutionary dynamics of the vertebrate Wnt gene repertoire," bioRxiv: the preprint server for biology (2026).

Lily G. Fogg, Emily Tom, Maxime Policarpo, William Cho, Fangyuan Gao, Doreen Hii, Aaron E. Fawcett, Nicolas Boileau, Amalie Bech-Poulsen, Kirstine F. Steffensen, Cherlyn J. Ng, Peter G. Bushnell, John Fleng Steffensen, Richard Brill, Walter Salzburger, and Dorota Skowronska-Krawczyk, "The visual system of the longest-living vertebrate, the Greenland shark," Nature Communications 17, 39 (2026).

Laurent Legendre, Julie Rode, Isabelle Germon, Marie Pavie, Stéphane Père, Julien Fumey, Maxime Policarpo, Luis Espinasa, Didier Casane, and Sylvie Rétaux, "Long-term genetic mark and recapture in Astyanax mexicanus cave populations: Demographic inferences and conservation issues," Conservation Genetics 27, 24 (2026).

Gregory C. Nordmann, Spencer D. Balay, Thamari N. Kapuruge, Marco Numi, Christoph Leeb, Simon Nimpf, E. Pascal Malkemper, Lukas Landler, and David A. Keays, "A global screen for magnetically induced neuronal activity in the pigeon brain," Science 391 (6790), 1155-1160 (2026).

Ekaterina Osipova, Meng-Ching Ko, Konstantin M. Petricek, Simon Yung Wa Sin, Thomas Brown, Sylke Winkler, Martin Pippel, Julia Jarrells, Susanne Weiche, Mai-Britt Mosbech, Fanny Taborsak-Lines, Chuan Wang, Orlando Contreras-Lopez, Remi-André Olsen, Philip Ewels, Daniel Mendez-Aranda, Andrea H. Gaede, Keren R. Sadanandan, Gabriel Weijie Low, Amanda Monte, Ninon Ballerstädt, Nicolas M. Adreani, Lucia Mentesana, Auguste M. P. von Bayern, Alejandro Rico-Guevara, Scott V. Edwards, Carolina Frankl-Vilches, Heiner Kuhl, Antje Bakker, Manfred Gahr, Douglas L. Altshuler, William A. Buttemer, Michael Schupp, Maude W. Baldwin, Michael Hiller, and Timothy B. Sackton, "Convergent and lineage-specific genomic changes shape adaptations in sugar-consuming birds," Science 391 (6788), eadt1522 (2026).

Lin Wang, Alejandro Gómez-Restrepo, Amanda Niqula, Jean-Sebastien Jouhanneau, Daniel Mendez-Aranda, Wenhan Luo, James F. A. Poulet, Elvira de la Peña, Félix Viana, Valérie Bégay, and Gary R. Lewin, "A specialized cold sensing system in the naked mole-rat," bioRxiv: the preprint server for biology (2026).

Chase D. Brownstein, Maxime Policarpo, Richard C. Harrington, Eva A. Hoffman, Maya F. Stokes, Didier Casane, and Thomas J. Near, "Convergent evolution in amblyopsid cavefishes and the age of eastern North American subterranean ecosystems," Molecular Biology and Evolution 42 (8), msaf185 (2025).

Amanda E. Hewes, Cassandra Fieldson, Maude W. Baldwin, William A. Buttemer, and Alejandro Rico-Guevara, "Morphological diversity in the honeyeater hyolingual apparatus and its relationship with nectarivory," PLoS ONE 20 (12), e0338219 (2025).

Yifan Pei, Wolfgang Forstmeier, Alexander Suh, Lynn Bambach, Inês Borges, Gabriel Weijie Low, Anne-Marie Dion-Côté, Ulrich Knief, Jochen B. W. Wolf, and Bart Kempenaers, "Evolution of large polymorphic inversions in a panmictic songbird," Molecular Biology and Evolution 42 (11), msaf262 (2025).

Hao Zhang, Lei Luo, Qiaoyi Liang, Lifeng Tian, Yong Shao, Xiuping Zhang, Kaixun Cao, Anna Luo, Chengsan Wang, Peter Muiruri Kamau, Dong-Dong Wu, Maude W. Baldwin, and Ren Lai, "Molecular evolution of sour tolerance in birds," Science 388 (6753), 1330-1336 (2025).

Corey A. H. Allard, Amy L. Herbert, Stephanie P. Krueger, Qiaoyi Liang, Brittany L. Walsh, Andrew L. Rhyne, Allex N. Gourlay, Agnese Seminara, Maude W. Baldwin, David M. Kingsley, and Nicholas W. Bellono, "Evolution of novel sensory organs in fish with legs," Current Biology 34 (19), 4349-4356 (2024).

Scott V. Edwards, Alison Cloutier, Glenn Cockburn, Robert Driver, Phil Grayson, Kazutaka Katoh, Maude W. Baldwin, Timothy B. Sackton, and Allan J. Baker, "A nuclear genome assembly of an extinct flightless bird, the little bush moa," Science Advances 10 (21), eadj6823 (2024).

Gabriel Weijie Low, Alexandra Pavlova, Han Ming Gan, Meng-Ching Ko, Keren R. Sadanandan, Yin Peng Lee, J. Nevil Amos, Lana Austin, Stephanie Falk, Damian K. Dowling, and Paul Sunnucks, "Accelerated differentiation of neo-W nuclear-encoded mitochondrial genes between two climate-associated bird lineages signals potential co-evolution with mitogenomes," Heredity 133 (5), 342-354 (2024).

Maxime Policarpo, Maude W. Baldwin, Didier Casane, and Walter Salzburger, "Diversity and evolution of the vertebrate chemoreceptor gene repertoire," Nature Communications 15, 1421 (2024).

Ryan A. Chisholm, Nadiah P. Kristensen, Frank E. Rheindt, Kwek Yan Chong, John S. Ascher, Kelvin K. P. Lim, Peter K. L. Ng, Darren C. J. Yeo, Rudolf Meier, Heok Hui Tan, Xingli Giam, Yi Shuen Yeoh, Wei Wei Seah, Laura M. Berman, Hui Zhen Tan, Keren R. Sadanandan, Meryl Theng, Wan F. A. Jusoh, Anuj Jain, Blanca Huertas, David J. X. Tan, Alicia C. R. Ng, Aloysius Teo, Zeng Yiwen, Tricia J. Y. Cho, and Y. C. Keita Sin, "Two centuries of biodiversity discovery and loss in Singapore," Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America 120 (51), e2309034120 (2023).

Amanda E. Hewes, Maude W. Baldwin, William A. Buttemer, and Alejandro Rico-Guevara, "How do honeyeaters drink nectar?," Integrative and Comparative Biology 63 (1), 48-58 (2023).

Ekaterina Osipova, Rico Barsacchi, Tom Brown, Keren R. Sadanandan, Andrea H. Gaede, Amanda Monte, Julia Jarrells, Claudia Moebius, Martin Pippel, Douglas L. Altshuler, Sylke Winkler, Marc Bickle, Maude W. Baldwin, and Michael Hiller, "Loss of a gluconeogenic muscle enzyme contributed to adaptive metabolic traits in hummingbirds," Science 379 (6628), 185-190 (2023).

Keren R. Sadanandan, Meng-Ching Ko, Gabriel Weijie Low, Manfred Gahr, Scott V. Edwards, Michael Hiller, Timothy B. Sackton, Frank E. Rheindt, Simon Yung Wa Sin, and Maude W. Baldwin, "Convergence in hearing-related genes between echolocating birds and mammals," Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America 120 (43), e23073401 (2023).

Keren R. Sadanandan, Hui Zhen Tan, Hong Yao Lim, Yi Gain Tan, Grace Lee, Lena Chan, Yifan Pei, Frank E. Rheindt, and Maude W. Baldwin, "Spatial and temporal resource partitioning in a mixed-species colony of avian echolocators," Ecology and Evolution 13 (2), e9805 (2023).

Meng Yue Wu, Giovanni Forcina, Gabriel Weijie Low, Keren R. Sadanandan, Chyi Yin Gwee, Hein van Grouw, Shaoyuan Wu, Scott V. Edwards, Maude W. Baldwin, and Frank E. Rheindt, "Historic samples reveal loss of wild genotype through domestic chicken introgression during the Anthropocene," PLoS Genetics 19 (1), e1010551 (2023).

Glenn Cockburn, Meng-Ching Ko, Keren R. Sadanandan, Eliot T. Miller, Tomoya Nakagita, Amanda Monte, Sungbo Cho, Eugeni Roura, Yasuka Toda, and Maude W. Baldwin, "Synergism, bifunctionality, and the evolution of a gradual sensory trade-off in hummingbird taste receptors," Molecular Biology and Evolution 39 (2), msab367 (2022).

Julia F. Cramer, Eliot T. Miller, Meng-Ching Ko, Qiaoyi Liang, Glenn Cockburn, Tomoya Nakagita, Massimiliano Cardinale, Leonida Fusani, Yasuka Toda, and Maude W. Baldwin, "A single residue confers selective loss of sugar sensing in wrynecks," Current Biology 32 (19), 4270-4278.e5 (2022).

Lingna Guo, Wenxuan Dai, Zhengrong Xu, Qiaoyi Liang, Eliot T. Miller, Shengju Li, Xia Gao, Maude W. Baldwin, Renjie Chai, and Qian Li, "Evolution of brain-expressed biogenic amine receptors into olfactory trace amine-associated receptors," Molecular Biology and Evolution 39 (3), msac006 (2022).

Qiaoyi Liang, Meng-Ching Ko, Nathaniel S. R. Ng, Borja Reh, Jessica G. H. Lee, Atsuko Yamashita, Hidenori Nishihara, Yasuka Toda, and Maude W. Baldwin, "T1R2-mediated sweet sensing in a lizard," Current Biology 32 (23), R1302-R1303 (2022).

Judith M. Varkevisser, Ralph Simon, Ezequiel Mendoza, Martin How, Idse van Hijlkema, Rozanda Jin, Qiaoyi Liang, Constance Scharff, Wouter H. Halfwerk, and Katharina Riebel, "Adding colour-realistic video images to audio playbacks increases stimulus engagement but does not enhance vocal learning in zebra finches," Animal Cognition 25 (2), 249-274 (2022).

Pratibha Baveja, Kritika M. Garg, Balaji Chattopadhyay, Keren R. Sadanandan, Dewi M. Prawiradilaga, Pramana Yuda, Jessica G. H. Lee, and Frank E. Rheindt, "Using historical genome‐wide DNA to unravel the confused taxonomy in a songbird lineage that is extinct in the wild," Evolutionary Applications 14 (3), 698-709 (2021).

Dominic Y. J. Ng, Tereza Švejcarová, Keren R. Sadanandan, Teuku Reza Ferasyi, Jessica G. H. Lee, Dewi M. Prawiradilaga, Tomáš Ouhel, Elize Y. X. Ng, and Frank E. Rheindt, "Genomic and morphological data help uncover extinction-in-progress of an unsustainably traded hill myna radiat," Ibis 163 (1), 38-51 (2021).

Robert E. Rollins, Sabine Schaper, Claudia Kahlhofer, Dimitrios Frangoulidis, Aurelia F. T. Strauß, Massimiliano Cardinale, Andrea Springer, Christina Strube, Deon K. Bakkes, Noémie S. Becker, and Lidia Chitimia-Dobler, "Ticks (Acari: Ixodidae) on birds migrating to the island of Ponza, Italy, and the tick-borne pathogens they carry," Ticks and Tick-borne Diseases 12 (1), 101590 (2021).

Yasuka Toda, Meng-Ching Ko, Qiaoyi Liang, Eliot T. Miller, Alejandro Rico-Guevara, Tomoya Nakagita, Ayano Sakakibara, Kana Uemura, Timothy Sackton, Takashi Hayakawa, Simon Yung Wa Sin, Yoshiro Ishimaru, Takumi Misaka, Pablo Oteiza, James Crall, Scott V. Edwards, William Buttemer, Shuichi Matsumura, and Maude W. Baldwin, "Early origin of sweet perception in the songbird radiation," Science 373 (6551), 226-231 (2021).

Maude W. Baldwin and Meng-Ching Ko, "Functional evolution of vertebrate sensory receptors," Hormones and Behavior 124, 104771 (2020).

Antonio Brun, Daniel Mendez-Aranda, Melisa E Magallanes, William H Karasov, Carlos Martínez del Rio, Maude W. Baldwin, and Enrique Caviedes-Vidal, "Duplications and functional convergence of intestinal carbohydrate-digesting enzymes," Molecular Biology and Evolution 37 (6), 1657-1666 (2020).

Shaohong Feng, Josefin Stiller, Yuan Deng, Joel Armstrong, Qi Fang, Andrew Hart Reeve, Duo Xie, Guangji Chen, Chunxue Guo, Brant C. Faircloth, Bent Petersen, Zongji Wang, Qi Zhou, Mark Diekhans, Wanjun Chen, Sergio Andreu-Sánchez, Ashot Margaryan, Jason Travis Howard, Carole Parent, George Pacheco, Mikkel-Holger S. Sinding, Lara Puetz, Emily Cavill, Ângela M. Ribeiro, Leopold Eckhart, Jon Fjeldså, Peter A. Hosner, Robb T. Brumfield, Les Christidis, Mads F. Bertelsen, Thomas Sicheritz-Ponten, Dieter Thomas Tietze, Bruce C. Robertson, Gang Song, Gerald Borgia, Santiago Claramunt, Irby J. Lovette, Saul J. Cowen, Peter Njoroge, John Philip Dumbacher, Oliver A. Ryder, Jérôme Fuchs, Michael Bunce, David W. Burt, Joel Cracraft, Guanliang Meng, Shannon J. Hackett, Peter G. Ryan, Knud Andreas Jønsson, Ian G. Jamieson, Rute R. da Fonseca, Edward L. Braun, Peter Houde, Siavash Mirarab, Alexander Suh, Bengt Hansson, Suvi Ponnikas, Hanna Sigeman, Martin Stervander, Paul B. Frandsen, Henriette van der Zwan, Rencia van der Sluis, Carina Visser, Christopher N. Balakrishnan, Andrew G. Clark, John W. Fitzpatrick, Reed Bowman, Nancy Chen, Alison Cloutier, Timothy B. Sackton, Scott V. Edwards, Dustin J. Foote, Subir B. Shakya, Frederick H. Sheldon, Alain Vignal, André E. R. Soares, Beth Shapiro, Jacob González-Solís, Joan Ferrer-Obiol, Julio Rozas, Marta Riutort, Anna Tigano, Vicki Friesen, Love Dalén, Araxi O. Urrutia, Tamás Székely, Yang Liu, Michael G. Campana, André Corvelo, Robert C. Fleischer, Kim M. Rutherford, Neil J. Gemmell, Nicolas Dussex, Henrik Mouritsen, Nadine Thiele, Kira Delmore, Miriam Liedvogel, Andre Franke, Marc P. Hoeppner, Oliver Krone, Adam M. Fudickar, Borja Milá, Ellen D. Ketterson, Andrew Eric Fidler, Guillermo Friis, Ángela M. Parody-Merino, Phil F. Battley, Murray P. Cox, Nicholas Costa Barroso Lima, Francisco Prosdocimi, Thomas Lee Parchman, Barney A. Schlinger, Bette A. Loiselle, John G. Blake, Haw Chuan Lim, Lainy B. Day, Matthew J. Fuxjager, Maude W. Baldwin, Michael J. Braun, Morgan Wirthlin, Rebecca B. Dikow, T. Brandt Ryder, Glauco Camenisch, Lukas F. Keller, Jeffrey M. DaCosta, Mark E. Hauber, Matthew I. M. Louder, Christopher C. Witt, Jimmy A. McGuire, Joann Mudge, Libby C. Megna, Matthew D. Carling, Biao Wang, Scott A. Taylor, Glaucia Del-Rio, Alexandre Aleixo, Ana Tereza Ribeiro Vasconcelos, Claudio V. Mello, Jason T. Weir, David Haussler, Qiye Li, Huanming Yang, Jian Wang, Fumin Lei, Carsten Rahbek, M. Thomas P. Gilbert, Gary R. Graves, Erich D. Jarvis, Benedict Paten, and Guojie Zhang, "Dense sampling of bird diversity increases power of comparative genomics," Nature 587 (7833), 252-257 (2020).

Chyi Yin Gwee, Kritika M. Garg, Balaji Chattopadhyay, Keren R. Sadanandan, Dewi M. Prawiradilaga, Martin Irestedt, Fumin Lei, Luke M. Bloch, Jessica G. H. Lee, Mohammad Irham, Tri Haryoko, Malcolm C. K. Soh, Kelvin S.-H. Peh, Karen M. C. Rowe, Teuku Reza Ferasyi, Shaoyuan Wu, Guinevere O. U. Wogan, Rauri C. K. Bowie, and Frank E. Rheindt, "Phylogenomics of white-eyes, a 'great speciator', reveals Indonesian archipelago as the center of lineage diversity," eLife 9, e62765 (2020).

Aurelien Miralles, Philippe Geniez, Menad Beddek, Daniel Mendez-Aranda, Jose Carlos Brito, Raphael Leblois, and Pierre-Andre Crochet, "Morphology and multilocus phylogeny of the Spiny-footed Lizard (Acanthodactylus erythrurus) complex reveal two new mountain species from the Moroccan Atlas," Zootaxa; Magnolia Press, Auckland, New Zealand 4747 (2), 302-326 (2020).

Keren R. Sadanandan, Gabriel Weijie Low, Sheeraja Sridharan, Chyi Yin Gwee, Elize Y. X. Ng, Pramana Yuda, Dewi M. Prawiradilaga, Jessica G. H. Lee, Anaïs Tritto, and Frank E. Rheindt, "The conservation value of admixed phenotypes in a critically endangered species complex," Scientific Reports 10, 15549 (2020).

H. Z. Tan, Gabriel Weijie Low, Keren R. Sadanandan, and Frank E. Rheindt, "Population assessment of the house crow, Corvus splendens, in Singapore," Malayan Nature Journal 72 (2), 133-142 (2020).

Antje Girndt, Glenn Cockburn, Alfredo Sanchez Tojar, Moritz Hertel, Terry Burke, and Julia Schroeder, "Male age and its association with reproductive traits in captive and wild house sparrows," Journal of Evolutionary Biology 32 (12), 1432-1443 (2019).

Keren R. Sadanandan, Clemens Küpper, Gabriel Weijie Low, Cheng-Te Yao, Yue Li, Tao Xu, Frank E. Rheindt, and Shaoyuan Wu, "Population divergence and gene flow in two East Asian shorebirds on the verge of speciation," Scientific Reports 9, 8546 (2019).

Didier Casane, Maude W. Baldwin, Walter Salzburger, and Maxime Policarpo, "Chiliombes dans les génomes: Le cas des chimiorécepteurs des tétrapodes aquatiques", in M S-Medecine Sciences, (Flammarion, Paris, 2025), Vol. 41, pp. 47-52.

Pablo Oteiza and Maude W. Baldwin, "Evolution of sensory systems", in Current Opinion in Neurobiology, (Elsevier Current Trends, New York, 2021), Vol. 71, pp. 52-59.