Bettina Almasi

This study investigates inbreeding depression in wild barn owls using whole-genome sequences, showing its presence in growth and adult traits, and identifying genomic regions with significant effects.

This study benchmarks imputation accuracy for low-coverage whole-genome sequencing data with and without a reference panel, showing that large datasets can achieve sufficient accuracy without one.

This study estimates de novo mutation rates in barn owls, showing paternal age effects and sex-specific mutation patterns.

The paper presents a chromosome-level, haplotype-resolved genome assembly for the barn owl, resolving microchromosomes and enabling structural variation studies.

The paper uses long-term genomic data from Swiss barn owls to show that selection on few loci drives rapid phenotypic evolution in response to environmental change.

This study finds that reproductive success in barn owls is linked to compatibility in baseline and stress-induced CORT levels between breeding partners, with context-dependent effects on clutch size and offspring body mass.