Happy to share this amazing work! We found lactase!? activity in birds, re-gaining of sweet-taste among other adaptations to frugivory in Manakins. This helped these birds evolve complicated and energetic mating behaviors! www.cell.com/current-biol...
Balakrishnan et al. take an integrative approach to explore the evolution of manakins,
a frugivorous bird lineage with elaborate courtship displays. They detect genome-wide
signatures related to sexua...
