Data for "Not All Roads Lead to Red: The genetics of sexual dichromatism in the northern cardinal (Cardinals cardinalis)"

Attached are the data for "Not All Roads Lead to Red: The genetics of sexual dichromatism in the northern cardinal (Cardinals cardinalis)" submitted to MBE for review in December 2025. They include:gene_reanno.list: list of the gene identifiers and names from the northern cardinal genome annotation used in the analysesmetadata.txt: contains all information used in the analyses outlined in the paper, such as Band, Sample_ID, Tissue_Type, Treatment, Age, Sex, Wing, Tail, Weight, Molt_Score, AvgBillHueMolting, AvgBillSaturationMolt, AvgBillBrightnessMolt, plasma_ketocarotenoids, plasma_non-ketos, plasma_lutein_zeax, plasma_canary_xanthophylls_conc, follicle_ketocarotenoids, follicle_non-ketos, follicle_lutein_zeax, and follicle_canary_xanthophylls_conc wild_cardinals_all_genes.counts: raw counts from RSEMwild_cardinals.list: sample names wild_samples_TPM.tsv: transcripts per million from RSEM