🦉We show inbreeding depression in morphological traits in a wild population of barn owls
📉 And that it manifests during early juvenile growth
🌦 We also show that h2 is lower in juvenile stages, because environmental impacts are higher
📣 New paper out in ProcB📣
... and we're on the cover! (Perks of having a beautiful study species)
Find it here:
royalsocietypublishing.org/rspb/article...
Are you looking to sequence a bunch of samples from a wild population in low-coverage but don't have a reference panel?
You might be surprised how well it can work.
See for yourself in our new benchmark study:
doi.org/10.1093/molb...
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📃New paper in Ecology letters 🐦
I’m delighted to share the publication of the first paper from my #postdoc with @samanthacpatrick.bsky.social looking at life-history trade-offs and #senescence in black-browed #albatrosses from Kerguelen and Bird Island
doi.org/10.1111/ele.70384