Avian Genomics in Ecology and Evolution

Robert Kraus is an Assistant Professor affiliated with both the Max Planck Institute of Ornithology and Konstanz University in Germany. After graduating in Biology from the Goethe University in Frankfurt, he completed a PhD in genome-wide genetic marker discovery and population genetics in mallard ducks at Wageningen University, the Netherlands. After a brief sojourn in applied nature conservation genetics at the Senckenberg Institute he returned to the study of the molecular ecology of ducks and other waterfowl in his current position, especially with a disease ecology focus and emphasizing functional variation across whole genomes. Dr Kraus is an active contributor to the international bird ten thousand genomes (B10K) consortium, where he leads the immunome working group, and works with the Vertebrate Genome Project in the Genome 10K (VGP/G10K) framework, which is setting new standards in the reference genome assembly of non-model species for comparative genomics using cutting-edge genome sequencing technology.

lt;p>

Chapter 1. An introduction to "Avian Genomics in Ecology and Evolution - From the lab into the wild".- Chapter 2. A Historical Perspective of Avian Genomics.- Chapter 3. Avian Genomics in Animal Breeding and the end of the model organism.- Chapter 4. Avian chromosomal evolution.- Chapter 5. Repetitive DNA - the dark matter of avian genomics.- Chapter 6. Resolving the avian tree of life from top to bottom: The promise and potential boundaries of the phylogenomic era.- Chapter 7. Avian Species Concepts in the Light of Genomics.- Chapter 8. Population Genomics and Phylogeography.- Chapter 9. Avian population studies in the genomic era.- Chapter 10. The Contribution of Genomics to Bird Conservation.- Chapter 11. Jurassic Spark:  What did the genomes of dinosaurs look like?.