Publications
Fröhlich M, CP van Schaik, MA van Noordwijk, U Knief 2022: Individual variation and plasticity in the infant-directed communication of orang-utan mothers. Proceedings of the Royal Society B 289: e20220200. Link:
Knief U 2022: Description of Central European Willow Tit Poecile montanus song types and the distribution of alpine song in southern Germany – a call for action. Vogelwelt 140: 145–152. Link:
Pei Y, W Forstmeier, FJ Ruiz-Ruano, JC Mueller, J Cabrero, JPM Camacho, JD Alché, A Franke, M Hoeppner, S Börno, I Gessara, M Hertel, K Teltscher, U Knief, A Suh, B Kempenaers 2021: Occasional paternal inheritance of the germline-restricted chromosome in songbirds. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the USA, in press. Link
Knief U & W Forstmeier 2021: Violating the normality assumption may be the lesser of two evils. Behavior Research Methods 53: 2576–2590. Link
Knief U, W Forstmeier, B Kempenaers, JBW Wolf 2021: A sex chromosome inversion is associated with copy number variation of mitochondrial DNA in zebra finch sperm. Royal Society Open Science 8: e211025. Link
Metzler D, U Knief, J Peñalba, JBW Wolf 2021: Assortative mate choice and epistatic mating-trait architecture induce complex movement of the crow hybrid zone. Evolution 75: 3154–3174. Link
Knief U, CM Bossu, JBW Wolf 2020: Extra-pair paternity as a strategy to reduce the costs of heterospecific reproduction? Insights from the crow hybrid zone. Journal of Evolutionary Biology 33: 727–733. Link
Knief U, W Forstmeier, Y Pei, JBW Wolf, B Kempenaers 2020: A test for meiotic drive in hybrids between Australian and Timor zebra finches. Ecology & Evolution 10: 13464–13475. Link
Fröhlich M, J Kunz, C Fryns, S Falkner, E Rukmana, M Schuppli, U Knief, SSU Atmoko, C Schuppli, MA van Noordwijk 2020: Social interactions and interaction partners in infant orang-utans of two wild populations. Animal Behaviour 166: 183–191. Link
Weissensteiner MH, I Bunikis, A Catalán, KJ Francoijs, U Knief, W Heim, V Peona, SD Pophaly, FJ Sedlazeck, A Suh, VM Warmuth, JBW Wolf 2020: Discovery and population genomics of structural variation in a songbird genus. Nature Communications 11: e3403. Link
Knief U*, CM Bossu*, N Saino, B Hansson, J Poelstra, N Vijay, M Weissensteiner, JBW Wolf 2019: Epistatic mutations under divergent selection govern phenotypic variation in the crow hybrid zone. Nature Ecology & Evolution 3: 570–576. Link
Zollinger SA, A Dorado-Correa, W Goymann, W Forstmeier, U Knief, AM Bastidas-Urrutia, H Brumm 2019: Traffic noise exposure depresses plasma corticosterone and delays offspring growth in breeding zebra finches. Conservation Physiology 7: coz056. Link
Knief U, B Kempenaers, W Forstmeier 2017: Meiotic recombination shapes precision of pedigree- and marker-based estimates of inbreeding. Heredity 118: 239–248. Link
Knief U, Forstmeier W, Pei Y, Ihle M, Wang D, Martin K, Opatová P, Albrechtová J, Wittig M, Franke A, Albrecht T, Kempenaers B (2017) Strong heterotic effects of a sex-chromosome inversion on sperm characteristics and siring success. Nature Ecology & Evolution: 1: 1177–1184. Link
Forstmeier W, Ihle M, Opatová P, Martin K, Knief U, Albrechtová J, Albrecht T, Kempenaers B (2017) Testing the phenotype-linked fertility hypothesis in the presence and absence of inbreeding. Journal of Evolutionary Biology: 30: 968–976. Link
Knief U, Schielzeth H, Backström N, Hemmrich-Stanisak G, Wittig M, Franke A, Griffith SC, Ellegren H, Kempenaers B, Forstmeier W (2017) Association mapping of morphological traits in wild and captive zebra finches: reliable within but not between populations. Molecular Ecology: 26: 1285–1305. Link
Knief U, Kempenaers B, Forstmeier W (2016) Meiotic recombination shapes precision of pedigree- and marker-based estimates of inbreeding. Heredity: in press. Link
Knief U, Forstmeier W (2016) Mapping centromeres of microchromosomes in the zebra finch (Taeniopygia guttata) using half-tetrad analysis. Chromosoma 125: 757–768. Link
Knief U, Hemmrich-Stanisak G, Wittig M, Franke A, Griffith SC, Kempenaers B, Forstmeier W (2016) Fitness consequences of polymorphic inversions in the zebra finch genome. Genome Biology 17: 199. Link
Lindholm AK, Dyer KA, Firman RC, Fishman L, Forstmeier W, Holman L, Johannesson H, Knief U, Kokko H, Larracuente AM, Manser A, Montchamp-Moreau C, Petrosyan VG, Pomiankowski A, Presgraves DC, Safronova LD, Sutter A, Unckless RL, Verspoor RL, Wedell N, Wilkinson GS, Price TAR (2016) The ecology and evolutionary dynamics of meiotic drive. Trends in Ecology & Evolution 31: 315–326. Link
Knief U, Hemmrich-Stanisak G, Wittig M, Franke A, Griffith SC, Kempenaers B, Forstmeier W (2015) Quantifying realized inbreeding in wild and captive animal populations. Heredity 114: 397–403. Link
Knief U, Schielzeth H, Ellegren H, Kempenaers B, Forstmeier W (2015) A prezygotic transmission distorter acting equally in female and male zebra finches Taeniopygia guttata. Molecular Ecology 24: 3846–3859. Link
Girndt A, Knief U, Forstmeier W, Kempenaers B (2014) Triploid ZZZ Zebra Finches Taeniopygia guttata exhibit abnormal sperm heads and poor reproductive performance. Ibis 156: 472–477. Link
Knief U, Schielzeth H, Kempenaers B, Ellegren H, Forstmeier W (2012) QTL and quantitative genetic analysis of beak morphology reveals patterns of standing genetic variation in an Estrildid finch. Molecular Ecology 21: 3704–3717. Link