Ulrich Knief

This paper assesses the impact of HPAI on wildlife, highlights data gaps, and advocates for integrated monitoring frameworks to improve outbreak prediction and conservation.

The paper investigates how culturally transmitted song in willow tits influences genomic divergence across the Palearctic, finding that song types correlate with genomic lineages and gene flow patterns.

This paper tracks the outbreak of HPAIV H5N1 euBB in black-headed gulls and common terns in Germany, showing multiple incursions, high mortality, and population declines.

This study shows that older Sandwich terns were disproportionately affected by HPAI H5N1 during a 2022 mass mortality event, highlighting age-related mortality in long-lived seabirds.

The paper critiques conventional 95% confidence intervals in meta-analyses, showing only 45% contain the true mean, and proposes extended confidence intervals to account for additional sources of heterogeneity.

The paper shows that the germline-restricted chromosome (GRC) in zebra finches can be paternally inherited, challenging previous assumptions of strict maternal transmission.

The paper investigates partial dosage compensation in female heterogametic avian systems by analyzing gene expression, ATAC-seq, and 5mC methylation in Eurasian crows.

The paper characterizes structural variation in the songbird genus Corvus using multiple sequencing methods and identifies a retrotransposon insertion with evolutionary implications.