Sonja Vernes

Dr. Vernes is a Research Group Leader at the Max Planck Institute for Psycholinguistics in Nijmegen where she heads the Neurogenetics of Vocal Communication Group and studies the links between genes, animal communication, and human language.

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The bat blueprint

A Painted Bat (Kerivoula picta) in flight.
On Biology

An ambitious international effort titled BAT1K has recently been launched. Its aim: to sequence the genomes of all living bat species. In this blog, Sonja… Read more »