• Evolutionary signals of selection on cognition from the great tit genome and methylome 

      Laine, Veronika N.; Gossmann, Toni; Schachtschneider, Kyle M.; Garroway, Colin J.; Madsen, Ole; Verhoeven, Koen J.F.; de Jager, Victor; Megens, Hendrik-Jan; Warren, Wesley C.; Minx, Patrick; Crooijmans, Richard P.M.A.; Corcoran, Pádraic; Adriaensen, Frank; Belda, Eduardo; Bushuev, Andrey; Cichon, Mariusz; Charmantier, Anne; Dingemanse, Niels; Doligez, Blandine; Eeva, Tapio; Erikstad, Kjell E; Fedorov, Slava; Hau, Michaela; Hille, Sabine; Hinde, Camilla; Kempenaers, Bart; Kerimov, Anvar; Krist, Milos; Mand, Raivo; Matthysen, Erik; Nager, Reudi; Norte, Claudia; Orell, Markku; Richner, Heinz; Slagsvold, Tore; Tilgar, Vallo; Tinbergen, Joost; Torok, Janos; Tschirren, Barbara; Yuta, Tera; Sheldon, Ben C.; Slate, Jon; Zeng, Kai; van Oers, Kees; Visser, Marcel E.; Groenen, Martien A.M. (Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2016)
      For over 50 years, the great tit (Parus major) has been a model species for research in evolutionary, ecological and behavioural research; in particular, learning and cognition have been intensively studied. Here, to ...
    • The great tit HapMap project: A continental-scale analysis of genomic variation in a songbird 

      Spurgin, Lewis G.; Bosse, Mirte; Adriaensen, Frank; Albayrak, Tamer; Barboutis, Christos; Belda, Eduardo; Bushuev, Andrey; Cecere, Jacopo G.; Charmantier, Anne; Cichon, Mariusz; Dingemanse, Niels J.; Doligez, Blandine; Eeva, Tapio; Erikstad, Kjell E.; Fedorov, Vyacheslav; Griggio, Matteo; Heylen, Dieter; Hille, Sabine; Hinde, Camilla A.; Ivankina, Elena; Kempenaers, Bart; Kerimov, Anvar; Krist, Miloš; Kvist, Laura; Laine, Veronika N.; Mänd, Raivo; Matthysen, Erik; Nager, Ruedi; Nikolov, Boris P.; Norte, Ana Claudia; Orell, Markku; Ouyang, Jenny; Petrova-Dinkova, Gergana; Richner, Heinz; Rubolini, Diego; Slagsvold, Tore; Tilgar, Vallo; Török, János; Tschirren, Barbara; Vágási, Csongor I.; Yuta, Teru; Groenen, Martien A. M.; Visser, Marcel E.; van Oers, Kees; Sheldon, Ben C.; Slate, Jon (Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2024)
      A major aim of evolutionary biology is to understand why patterns of genomic diversity vary within taxa and space. Large-scale genomic studies of widespread species are useful for studying how environment and demography ...