Another direct result was a young grad student named Ben Novak, who had been obsessed with passenger pigeons since he was 14 and had also learned how to work with ancient DNA, himself sequenced the passenger pigeon, using money from his family and friends.
Još jedan izravni rezultat bio je diplomac Ben Novak, koji je opsjednut golubom selcem od svoje 14. godine te je naučio kako raditi s drevnim DNK, sam sekvencionirao goluba selca, financirajući to novcem obitelji i prijatelja.