Poetry
Bill + brain + tool = corvid?
Bill + brain + tool + the right alleles =
Cool tool-using corvid. Dussex, Kutschera, Wiberg et al. (2021) Mol Ecol
Microscopic life
adapts to heaven and hell.
Exchanging angels. Tusso, Nieuwenhuis et al. (2020) Nat Ecol Evol
Blueprint in uproar.
Genes jump and polymeres tilt.
Coal turns into ash. Weissensteiner et al. (2020) Nature Communications
Choose your mate wisely,
says the black crow to the grey.
Croaks, and flies away. Knief et al. (2020) J Evol Biol
Recombination
How do we estimate you?
What can you teach us? Peñalba, Wolf (2020) Nature Reviews Genetics
The feather-footed.
Eternal coalescence
on water and land.
Uppsala, Munich
Where sea lions do not roam
Their story was told
Draw from the old tales,
of the feather-footed,
the features of their path,
the wise clues for their future. Peart et al. (2020) Nature Ecology and Evolution
ω α
are time sensitive creatures.
So the crows teach us. Mugal et al. (2019) Mol Biol Evol
In the smallest lands,
the crows carry a burden.
Will they still live long ? Kutschera et al. (2019) Mol Biol Evol
Unneighbourly crowd
for a common cruel crow
Collective killing Holtmann et al. (2019), Sci Reports
Does species richness
bear on gene diversity?
We ask the meadow. Eisenhauer et al. (2019) Res Ideas Outcomes
our sequence is fixed
yet with the seasons we change
we ask: meth to blame? DfG grant WO1426/4-1 on Evolutionary Epigenetics