For the press

 

This page contains press material for journalists covering my research.


Immune gene diversity in a threatened island bird

June 2020

Photos available for press about the paper High MHC gene copy number maintains diversity despite homozygosity in a Critically Endangered single-island endemic bird, but no evidence of MHC-based mate choice (Stervander, Dierickx, Thorley et al. 2020). All pictures can be freely used for media coverage about the paper (but not for other purposes), with the condition that © René Pop / The Sound Approach is clearly credited. Click the thumbnails below to retrieve the full-size images.


The world’s smallest flightless bird

October 2018

Photos available for press about the paper The origin of the world’s smallest flightless bird, the Inaccessible Island Rail Atlantisia rogersi (Aves: Rallidae) (Stervander et al. 2019). All pictures can be freely used, but we ask that the photographers are credited appropriately. Click the thumbnails below to retrieve the full-size images.