Linda Odenthal-Hesse

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 identifies Prdm9 alleles in wild mice that cause hybrid sterility when combined with specific alleles from other populations.

The paper identifies novel Prdm9 alleles in wild mice and shows their association with fertility and sterility in hybrid males, supporting oligogenic control of hybrid sterility.

The paper examines PRDM9 gene variability in minke whales, identifying novel variants and showing geographic differences in allelic diversity and recombination patterns.

The paper identifies extensive variation in mouse intelectin genes, including duplications, deletions, and pseudogenes, revealing evolutionary diversity across strains.

The paper reduces the Hstx2 locus to a 2.70 Mb interval, identifies it as a recombination cold spot, and finds a copy number polymorphism of the Mir465 microRNA cluster.

The paper investigates the CCL3L1-CCR5 axis in lung function using genetic data, finding no association between CCL3L1 copy number or CCR5del32 genotype and lung function.