Media coverage
Selected coverage of our research by various media outlets.
Print media
Einsichten 22.06.2022: The power of chance oder Die Macht des Zufalls
The New Yorker 21.09.2021: Where do species come from?
Forbes Magazine 03.08.2020: Do birds of a feather speciate together?
Einsichten 1/2018: Arten der Anpassung
Die Zeit 20.06.2016: Orca - Peeling Kur im Warmen
The Guardian 31.05.2016: Secrets of killer whale evolution revealed by genetic study
New Scientist 31.05.2016: Orcas are first non-humans whose evolution is driven by culture
El País 02.06.2016: Los humanos no son únicos: las orcas también evolucionan gracias a la cultura
Scientific American 21.08.2014: Baffling genetic barrier prevents similar animals from interbreeding
Die Zeit 17.06.2014: Sex in der Zone
Der Spiegel 23.06.2014: Rätselhafte Vermischung
Uppsala Nya Tidning 17.06.2014: Kråkor lika som bär
Sächsische Zeitung 24.05.2013: Auf den Spuren der Krähen
Laborjournal 3/2009: Der Krähe neues Federkleid
Handelsblatt 26.03.2009: Wie neue Arten entstehen
Bild der Wissenschaft 2009: 4x Avantgarde
Süddeutsche Zeitung 31.03.2009: Die Erfindung der Arten
Radio
B24: Wissen kompakt. 03.11.2025 Farbvarianten bei Kuckuseiern
Bayern2 Radio. Radiowissen. 10.02.2023: Artenwandel im Anthropozän - Der Einfluss des Menschen auf die Evolution
Bayern2 Radio. Radiowissen. 25.11.2021: Schwarz, schwärzer am schwärzesten - Die Farbe Schwarz im Tierreich
Sveriges Radio 23.06.2014: Kråkors arvsmass skapar frågor
Blogs
Nature Communities
19.01.2021 : Experimental Life
21.07.2020: Sailing the high seas of structural genomic variation
09.06.2020: The feather footed, evolutionary theory and conservation
25.03.2019: All crows are black - aren t they ?
Molecular Ecologist
12.04.2021: How do you use genome-wide diverstiy in conservation?
15.03.2021: What should conservation genomics researchers do about The Gap?
05.06.2017: Shared patterns of genomic diversity across populations of distantly related taxa
25.02.2015: The conservation genomics gap
26.02.2014: What s more isolating - environmental distance or plain old distance?
31.10.2012: One of these flycatchers is not like the other
Avian Hybrids
02.04.2025: Genetic coupling of barrier loci in the Barn Swallow
14.08.2024: Following the evolutionary fate of inversions in Munias
05.07.2023: Detecting hybrid speciation with genomic data
02.10.2021: Hybrids between Zebra Finch subspecies provide evidence for a weak meiotic driver
27.01.2021: How the hooded crow got its hood. A tale of two crows and a transposable element
02.07.2020: Do crows engage in extra-pair copulations to avoid hybridization?
20.11.2019: Are crows on islands experiencing a mutational meltdown?
04.05.2019: How to turn a Carrion Crow into a Hooded Crow (and vice versa)?
05.09.2019: Classifying Corvids: Peculiar phylogeographic patterns in the crow family
Miscellaneous
28.01.2015: Using drones to monitor bird nests
24.07.2014: A tale of two crows
29.12.2010: Hamilton s r vs. Ohtsuki s k
Press releases
31.10.2025: Cuckoos: maternal genes determine egg color
24.04.2024: Color variants in cuckoos: the advantage of rareness
11.01.2021: Evolution: speciation in the presence of gene flow
10.06.2020: Population ecology: origins of genetic variability in seals
26.05.2019: Birds of a feather speciate together
Video coverage
22.07.2025: ZDF, ARTE - Powerful-Genes-–-The-Miracle-of-Human-Adaptation
12.01.2021: PopGen Vienna Webinar - Hybridization in experimental and natural populations
04.09.2019: Museum of Vertebrate Zoology, UC Berkeley- Bird of a feather flock together
05.05.2015: Craaford Prize Symposium, Stockholm - The genomics of adaptation and speciation