Max Lundberg

The paper identifies a repeat-rich genomic region, MARB, associated with bird migration using long-read assemblies and cytogenetic techniques, revealing it spans a large chromosome and contains many olfactory receptor genes.

The paper maps recombination rates and genetic variation along the Z chromosome of great reed warblers, revealing extreme recombination variation and its impact on diversity and repeats.

The paper examines genomic differentiation patterns across eight bird sister pairs, finding correlations between differentiation metrics and genomic features like gene density, with higher repeatability in more reproductively isolated pairs.