Molecular insights into region-specific sexual dichromatism: Comparative transcriptome analysis of red cheek pigmentation in zebra finches

• Gee-Way Lin ,

  Contributed equally to this work with: Gee-Way Lin, Chih-Kuan Chen

  Roles Conceptualization, Formal analysis, Funding acquisition, Investigation, Methodology, Validation, Visualization, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliations Department of Pathology, Keck School of Medicine, University of Southern California, Los Angeles, California, United States of America, Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Cell Biology, School of Medicine, College of Medicine, Taipei Medical University, Taipei, Taiwan

  https://orcid.org/0000-0001-7242-1558

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• Chih-Kuan Chen ,

  Contributed equally to this work with: Gee-Way Lin, Chih-Kuan Chen

  Roles Conceptualization, Formal analysis, Investigation, Methodology, Software, Visualization, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliations Department of Pathology, Keck School of Medicine, University of Southern California, Los Angeles, California, United States of America, The iEGG and Animal Biotechnology Center, National Chung Hsing University, Taichung, Taiwan

  https://orcid.org/0000-0002-0962-1589

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• Ting-Xin Jiang,

  Roles Investigation, Methodology, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Department of Pathology, Keck School of Medicine, University of Southern California, Los Angeles, California, United States of America

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• Ya-Chen Liang,

  Roles Methodology, Software, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Department of Pathology, Keck School of Medicine, University of Southern California, Los Angeles, California, United States of America

  https://orcid.org/0000-0001-7813-8921

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• Pin-Chi Tang,

  Roles Methodology, Resources, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliations The iEGG and Animal Biotechnology Center, National Chung Hsing University, Taichung, Taiwan, Department of Animal Science, National Chung Hsing University, Taichung, Taiwan

  https://orcid.org/0000-0002-0214-6754

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• Ping Wu,

  Roles Investigation, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Department of Pathology, Keck School of Medicine, University of Southern California, Los Angeles, California, United States of America

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• Randall B. Widelitz,

  Roles Funding acquisition, Investigation, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Department of Pathology, Keck School of Medicine, University of Southern California, Los Angeles, California, United States of America

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• Chih-Feng Chen,

  Roles Funding acquisition, Resources, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliations The iEGG and Animal Biotechnology Center, National Chung Hsing University, Taichung, Taiwan, Department of Animal Science, National Chung Hsing University, Taichung, Taiwan

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• Cheng-Ming Chuong

  Roles Conceptualization, Funding acquisition, Investigation, Project administration, Resources, Supervision, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

  * E-mail: cmchuong@usc.edu

  Affiliation Department of Pathology, Keck School of Medicine, University of Southern California, Los Angeles, California, United States of America

  https://orcid.org/0000-0001-9673-3994

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