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"Enchanted by Daphne: The Life of an Evolutionary Naturalist" by Peter R. Grant is a personal memoir that chronicles the life and career of the author. The book focuses on Grant's groundbreaking research on Darwin's finches and his 40-year study on Daphne Major, an island in the Galápagos archipelago. It highlights the importance of long-term fieldwork, the significance of hybridization in evolutionary processes, and the role of chance events in speciation. The memoir also explores Grant's early life and his passion for natural history. Overall, the book provides a captivating account of Grant's scientific discoveries and personal experiences. [Extracted from the article]

The Yellow Warbler (Setophaga petechia) is a small songbird in the wood-warbler family (Parulidae) that exhibits phenotypic and ecological differences across a widespread distribution and is important to California's riparian habitat conservation. Here, we present a high-quality de novo genome assembly of a vouchered female Yellow Warbler from southern California. Using HiFi long-read and Omni-C proximity sequencing technologies, we generated a 1.22 Gb assembly including 687 scaffolds with a contig N50 of 6.80 Mb, scaffold N50 of 21.18 Mb, and a BUSCO completeness score of 96.0%. This highly contiguous genome assembly provides an essential resource for understanding the history of gene flow, divergence, and local adaptation in Yellow Warblers and can inform conservation management of this charismatic bird species. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]