Versatile gene expression helps trail-blazing house sparrows adapt
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![Figure][1] House sparrows at a bird feeder. Photo credit: [Matt MacGillivray from Toronto, Canada, CC BY 2.0][2], via Wikimedia Commons. Pioneers face many challenges when venturing into new terrain: novel landscapes, unfamiliar foods and host of fresh infections for their immune
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Shinichi Nakagawa and Joel Pick introduce what we can learn from house sparrows.
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ژورنال
عنوان ژورنال: The Journal of Experimental Biology
سال: 2021
ISSN: ['1477-9145', '0022-0949']
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1242/jeb.242492