Publications
Welcome to our Publications page. Below, you’ll find a list of our published work. If you’re interested in any of our ongoing or unpublished research, please feel free to reach out via the contact information provided in the Team section.
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2025
A method for identifying spatially divergent selection in structured populations
Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory
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24 Feb 2025
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doi:10.1101/2025.02.23.639751
2024
The recombination landscape of the barn owl, from families to populations
GENETICS
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15 Nov 2024
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doi:10.1093/genetics/iyae190
Estimation of Jacquard’s genetic identity coefficients with bi-allelic variants by constrained least-squares
Heredity
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07 Nov 2024
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doi:10.1038/s41437-024-00731-z
Too big to purge: persistence of deleterious Mutations in Island populations of the European Barn Owl (Tyto alba)
Heredity
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13 Oct 2024
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doi:10.1038/s41437-024-00728-8
Too big to purge: persistence of deleterious mutations in island populations of the European barn owl (Tyto alba)
Springer Science and Business Media LLC
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20 May 2024
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doi:10.21203/rs.3.rs-4324586/v1
Detecting inbreeding depression in structured populations
Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences
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30 Apr 2024
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doi:10.1073/pnas.2315780121
The recombination landscape of the barn owl, from families to populations
Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory
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16 Apr 2024
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doi:10.1101/2024.04.11.589103
Estimation of Jacquard’s genetic identity coefficients with bi-allelic variants by constrained least-squares
Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory
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29 Mar 2024
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doi:10.1101/2024.03.25.586682
Characterization of the diversity of barn owl’s mitochondrial genome reveals high copy number variations in the control region
PLOS ONE
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25 Jan 2024
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doi:10.1371/journal.pone.0295595
The genomic architecture of continuous plumage colour variation in the European barn owl (
Tyto alba
)
Proceedings of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences
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10 Jan 2024
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doi:10.1098/rspb.2023.1995
2023
An allele-sharing, moment-based estimator of global, population-specific and population-pair FST under a general model of population structure
PLOS Genetics
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27 Nov 2023
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doi:10.1371/journal.pgen.1010871
The evolution of genetic covariance and modularity as a result of multigenerational environmental fluctuation
Evolution Letters
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17 Oct 2023
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doi:10.1093/evlett/qrad048
Detecting inbreeding depression in structured populations
Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory
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14 Aug 2023
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doi:10.1101/2023.08.14.552950
An allele-sharing, moment-based estimator of global, population specific and population pairsFSTunder a general model of population structure
Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory
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19 Jul 2023
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doi:10.1101/2023.07.18.549618
The genomic architecture of a continuous color polymorphism in the European barn owl (Tyto alba)
Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory
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04 Apr 2023
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doi:10.1101/2023.04.03.535036
Genetically diverse populations hold the keys to climatic adaptation: a lesson from a cosmopolitan raptor
Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory
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17 Mar 2023
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doi:10.1101/2023.03.17.533108
Inferring genetic structure when there is little: population genetics versus genomics of the threatened bat Miniopterus schreibersii across Europe
Scientific Reports
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27 Jan 2023
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doi:10.1038/s41598-023-27988-4
2022
Genomic basis of insularity and ecological divergence in barn owls (Tyto alba) of the Canary Islands
Heredity
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29 Sep 2022
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doi:10.1038/s41437-022-00562-w
Effect of reduced genomic representation on using runs of homozygosity for inbreeding characterization
Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory
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26 Aug 2022
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doi:10.1101/2022.08.26.505374
How HLA diversity is apportioned: influence of selection and relevance to transplantation
Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences
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18 Apr 2022
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doi:10.1098/rstb.2020.0420
2021
Genomic bases of insularity and ecological divergence in barn owls (Tyto alba) of the Canary Islands
Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory
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24 Dec 2021
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doi:10.1101/2021.12.24.473866
Genomic consequences of colonisation, migration and genetic drift in barn owl insular populations of the eastern Mediterranean
Molecular Ecology
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23 Dec 2021
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doi:10.1111/mec.16324
Landscape and Climatic Variations Shaped Secondary Contacts amid Barn Owls of the Western Palearctic
Molecular Biology and Evolution
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06 Dec 2021
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doi:10.1093/molbev/msab343
Rank-invariant estimation of inbreeding coefficients
Heredity
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25 Nov 2021
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doi:10.1038/s41437-021-00471-4
Unexpected post‐glacial colonisation route explains the white colour of barn owls (Tyto alba) from the British Isles
Molecular Ecology
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06 Nov 2021
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doi:10.1111/mec.16250
2020
Common garden experiments to study local adaptation need to account for population structure
Journal of Ecology
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12 Nov 2020
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doi:10.1111/1365-2745.13528
Greater topoclimatic control of above‐ versus below‐ground communities
Global Change Biology
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27 Sep 2020
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doi:10.1111/gcb.15330
New genome assembly of the barn owl (Tyto alba alba)
Ecology and Evolution
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19 Feb 2020
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doi:10.1002/ece3.5991
2018
How to estimate kinship
Molecular Ecology
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07 Sep 2018
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doi:10.1111/mec.14833
QuantiNemo 2: a Swiss knife to simulate complex demographic and genetic scenarios, forward and backward in time
Bioinformatics
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23 Aug 2018
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doi:10.1093/bioinformatics/bty737
The Effect of Balancing Selection on Population Differentiation: A Study with HLA Genes
G3 Genes|Genomes|Genetics
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01 Aug 2018
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doi:10.1534/g3.118.200367
Female-biased dispersal and non-random gene flow of MC1R variants do not result in a migration load in barn owls
Heredity
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13 Jul 2018
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doi:10.1038/s41437-018-0115-9
The Rocky Mountains as a dispersal barrier between barn owl (Tyto alba) populations in North America
Journal of Biogeography
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30 Mar 2018
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doi:10.1111/jbi.13219
Complex genetic patterns in human arise from a simple range-expansion model over continental landmasses
PLOS ONE
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21 Feb 2018
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doi:10.1371/journal.pone.0192460
Sex‐antagonistic genes, XY recombination and feminized Y chromosomes
Journal of Evolutionary Biology
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23 Jan 2018
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doi:10.1111/jeb.13235
2017
A genetic reconstruction of the invasion of the calanoid copepod Pseudodiaptomus inopinus across the North American Pacific Coast
Biological Invasions
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12 Dec 2017
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doi:10.1007/s10530-017-1649-0
A Unified Characterization of Population Structure and Relatedness
Genetics
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01 Aug 2017
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doi:10.1534/genetics.116.198424
Broad-Scale Genetic Diversity of Cannabis for Forensic Applications
PLOS ONE
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20 Jan 2017
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doi:10.1371/journal.pone.0170522
Phosphorus acquisition efficiency in arbuscular mycorrhizal maize is correlated with the abundance of root‐external hyphae and the accumulation of transcripts encoding PHT1 phosphate transporters
New Phytologist
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18 Jan 2017
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doi:10.1111/nph.14403
2016
Linking genomics and population genetics with R
Molecular Ecology Resources
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29 Aug 2016
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doi:10.1111/1755-0998.12577
Sex‐specific allelic transmission bias suggests sexual conflict at MC 1R
Molecular Ecology
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26 Aug 2016
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doi:10.1111/mec.13781
apex: phylogenetics with multiple genes
Molecular Ecology Resources
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12 Aug 2016
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doi:10.1111/1755-0998.12567
Population-specific F values for forensic STR markers: A worldwide survey
Forensic Science International: Genetics
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01 Jul 2016
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doi:10.1016/j.fsigen.2016.03.004
Reconstructing the demographic history of divergence between European river and brook lampreys using approximate Bayesian computations
PeerJ
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07 Apr 2016
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doi:10.7717/peerj.1910
Genomic Evidence for Adaptive Inversion Clines inDrosophila melanogaster
Molecular Biology and Evolution
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21 Jan 2016
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doi:10.1093/molbev/msw016
2015
The genetic basis of color-related local adaptation in a ring-like colonization around the Mediterranean
Evolution
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15 Dec 2015
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doi:10.1111/evo.12824
Mapping Bias Overestimates Reference Allele Frequencies at the HLA Genes in the 1000 Genomes Project Phase I Data
G3 Genes|Genomes|Genetics
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01 May 2015
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doi:10.1534/g3.114.015784
How a haemosporidian parasite of bats gets around: the genetic structure of a parasite, vector and host compared
Molecular Ecology
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01 Feb 2015
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doi:10.1111/mec.13071
2014
Natural selection in a postglacial range expansion: the case of the colour cline in the European barn owl
Molecular Ecology
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30 Oct 2014
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doi:10.1111/mec.12957
Wheat alleles introgress into selfing wild relatives: empirical estimates from approximate Bayesian computation in Aegilops triuncialis
Molecular Ecology
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01 Oct 2014
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doi:10.1111/mec.12918
Soil fungal communities of grasslands are environmentally structured at a regional scale in the A lps
Molecular Ecology
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01 Aug 2014
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doi:10.1111/mec.12854
On the transition of genetic differentiation from isolation to panmixia: What we can learn from and
Theoretical Population Biology
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01 May 2014
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doi:10.1016/j.tpb.2014.02.003
2013
Density-based hierarchical clustering of pyro-sequences on a large scale—the case of fungal ITS1
Bioinformatics
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28 Mar 2013
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doi:10.1093/bioinformatics/btt149
Peak and Persistent Excess of Genetic Diversity Following an Abrupt Migration Increase
Genetics
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01 Mar 2013
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doi:10.1534/genetics.112.147785
Plant species distributions along environmental gradients: do belowground interactions with fungi matter?
Frontiers in Plant Science
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01 Jan 2013
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doi:10.3389/fpls.2013.00500
2012
Plants and tortoises: mutations in the Arabidopsis jasmonate pathway increase feeding in a vertebrate herbivore
Molecular Ecology
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20 Mar 2012
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doi:10.1111/j.1365-294X.2012.05533.x
GENETIC BASIS OF ADAPTATION IN ARABIDOPSIS THALIANA: LOCAL ADAPTATION AT THE SEED DORMANCY QTL DOG1
Evolution
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28 Feb 2012
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doi:10.1111/j.1558-5646.2012.01590.x
2011
Local adaptation and matching habitat choice in female barn owls with respect to melanic coloration
Journal of Evolutionary Biology
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09 Nov 2011
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doi:10.1111/j.1420-9101.2011.02407.x
Ecology and life history affect different aspects of the population structure of 27 high-alpine plants
Molecular Ecology
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20 Jun 2011
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doi:10.1111/j.1365-294X.2011.05164.x
Global Invasion History of the Fire Ant
Solenopsis invicta
Science
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25 Feb 2011
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doi:10.1126/science.1198734
2010
Evolution in heterogeneous populations: From migration models to fixation probabilities
Theoretical Population Biology
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01 Dec 2010
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doi:10.1016/j.tpb.2010.08.004
Genetic isolation of insular populations of the Maghrebian bat, Myotis punicus, in the Mediterranean Basin
Journal of Biogeography
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15 Jul 2010
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doi:10.1111/j.1365-2699.2010.02282.x
Mites as biological tags of their hosts
Molecular Ecology
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29 Jun 2010
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doi:10.1111/j.1365-294X.2010.04699.x
Fine-scale spatial genetic structure and gene dispersal in Silene latifolia
Heredity
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14 Apr 2010
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doi:10.1038/hdy.2010.38
LOCAL ADAPTATION MAINTAINS CLINAL VARIATION IN MELANIN-BASED COLORATION OF EUROPEAN BARN OWLS (TYTO ALBA)
Evolution
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01 Mar 2010
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doi:10.1111/j.1558-5646.2010.00969.x
2009
CORRELATED EVOLUTION OF MATING STRATEGY AND INBREEDING DEPRESSION WITHIN AND AMONG POPULATIONS OF THE HERMAPHRODITIC SNAILPHYSA ACUTA
Evolution
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01 Nov 2009
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doi:10.1111/j.1558-5646.2009.00760.x
Reduced genetic diversity, increased isolation and multiple introductions of invasive giant hogweed in the western Swiss Alps
Molecular Ecology
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22 Jun 2009
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doi:10.1111/j.1365-294X.2009.04237.x
Parallel changes in genetic diversity and species diversity following a natural disturbance
Molecular Ecology
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01 Mar 2009
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doi:10.1111/j.1365-294X.2009.04102.x
Inferring recent migration rates from individual genotypes
Molecular Ecology
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01 Mar 2009
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doi:10.1111/j.1365-294X.2008.04058.x
2008
MultivariateQst–Fst Comparisons: A Neutrality Test for the Evolution of the G Matrix in Structured Populations
Genetics
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01 Dec 2008
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doi:10.1534/genetics.107.080820
Effects of Selection and Drift on G Matrix Evolution in a Heterogeneous Environment: A MultivariateQst–Fst Test With the Freshwater SnailGalba truncatula
Genetics
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01 Dec 2008
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doi:10.1534/genetics.108.092452
How accurate is the current picture of human genetic variation?
Heredity
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03 Sep 2008
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doi:10.1038/hdy.2008.89
quantiNemo: an individual-based program to simulate quantitative traits with explicit genetic architecture in a dynamic metapopulation
Bioinformatics
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01 May 2008
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doi:10.1093/bioinformatics/btn219
A set of primers for plastid indels and nuclear microsatellites in the invasive plant Heracleum mantegazzianum (Apiaceae) and their transferability to Heracleum sphondylium
Molecular Ecology Resources
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01 Jan 2008
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doi:10.1111/j.1471-8286.2007.01911.x
2007
A step-by-step tutorial to use HierFstat to analyse populations hierarchically structured at multiple levels
Infection, Genetics and Evolution
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01 Dec 2007
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doi:10.1016/j.meegid.2007.07.005
Effect of mating history on gender preference in the hermaphroditic snail Physa acuta
Animal Behaviour
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01 Nov 2007
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doi:10.1016/j.anbehav.2007.02.019
Gender-role alternation in the simultaneously hermaphroditic freshwater snail Physa acuta: not with the same partner
Behavioral Ecology and Sociobiology
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26 Sep 2007
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doi:10.1007/s00265-007-0496-x
Going the distance: human population genetics in a clinal world
Trends in Genetics
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01 Sep 2007
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doi:10.1016/j.tig.2007.07.002
High quantitative and no molecular differentiation of a freshwater snail (Galba truncatula) between temporary and permanent water habitats
Molecular Ecology
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17 Jul 2007
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doi:10.1111/j.1365-294X.2007.03386.x
Under Neutrality, QST ≤ FST When There Is Dominance in an Island Model
Genetics
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01 Jun 2007
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doi:10.1534/genetics.106.067173
Reliable selfing rate estimates from imperfect population genetic data
Molecular Ecology
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16 May 2007
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doi:10.1111/j.1365-294X.2007.03330.x
2006
Variation in the intensity of inbreeding depression among successive life-cycle stages and generations in gynodioecious Silene vulgaris (Caryophyllaceae)
Journal of Evolutionary Biology
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01 Nov 2006
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doi:10.1111/j.1420-9101.2006.01147.x
Inbreeding effects on progeny sex ratio and gender variation in the gynodioecious Silene vulgaris (Caryophyllaceae)
New Phytologist
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05 Sep 2006
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doi:10.1111/j.1469-8137.2006.01866.x
Experimental evidence of inbreeding avoidance in the hermaphroditic snail Physa acuta
Evolutionary Ecology
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01 Sep 2006
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doi:10.1007/s10682-006-0009-9
Evolutionary aspects of population structure for molecular and quantitative traits in the freshwater snail Radix balthica
Journal of Evolutionary Biology
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01 Jul 2006
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doi:10.1111/j.1420-9101.2006.01098.x
Proximity-dependent Pollen Performance in Silene vulgaris
Annals of Botany
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30 May 2006
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doi:10.1093/aob/mcl119
The Effects of Dominance, Regular Inbreeding and Sampling Design on QST, an Estimator of Population Differentiation for Quantitative Traits
Genetics
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01 Feb 2006
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doi:10.1534/genetics.105.050583
2005
Heterozygote advantage and the maintenance of polymorphism for multilocus traits
Theoretical Population Biology
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01 Nov 2005
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doi:10.1016/j.tpb.2005.06.002
Detecting the number of clusters of individuals using the software structure : a simulation study
Molecular Ecology
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11 May 2005
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doi:10.1111/j.1365-294X.2005.02553.x
2004
Ecological components and evolution of selfing in the freshwater snail Galba truncatula
Journal of Evolutionary Biology
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18 Nov 2004
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doi:10.1111/j.1420-9101.2004.00831.x
Synergistic epistasis and alternative hypotheses
Journal of Evolutionary Biology
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01 Nov 2004
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doi:10.1111/j.1420-9101.2004.00755.x
High genetic variability and low local diversity in a population of arbuscular mycorrhizal fungi
Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences
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11 Feb 2004
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doi:10.1073/pnas.0306441101
2003
Isolation and characterization of highly polymorphic microsatellite loci in the bladder campion, Silene vulgaris (Caryophyllaceae)
Molecular Ecology Notes
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13 May 2003
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doi:10.1046/j.1471-8286.2003.00449.x
THE ADDITIVE GENETIC VARIANCE AFTER BOTTLENECKS IS AFFECTED BY THE NUMBER OF LOCI INVOLVED IN EPISTATIC INTERACTIONS
Evolution
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01 Apr 2003
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doi:10.1111/j.0014-3820.2003.tb00284.x
2002
Geographical and altitudinal population genetic structure of two dung fly species with contrasting mobility and temperature preference
Heredity
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24 Jul 2002
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doi:10.1038/sj.hdy.6800097
Tests for sex‐biased dispersal using bi‐parentally inherited genetic markers
Molecular Ecology
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28 May 2002
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doi:10.1046/j.1365-294X.2002.01496.x
The correlation between inbreeding and fitness: does allele size matter?
Trends in Ecology & Evolution
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01 May 2002
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doi:10.1016/S0169-5347(02)02467-9
Statistical properties of population differentiation estimators under stepwise mutation in a finite island model
Molecular Ecology
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01 Apr 2002
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doi:10.1046/j.1365-294X.2002.01474.x
2000
Microsatellites in the hermaphroditic snail, Lymnaea truncatula, intermediate host of the liver fluke, Fasciola hepatica
Molecular Ecology
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01 Oct 2000
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doi:10.1046/j.1365-294X.2000.01040-2.x
MICROSATELLITES CAN BE MISLEADING: AN EMPIRICAL AND SIMULATION STUDY
Evolution
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01 Aug 2000
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doi:10.1111/j.0014-3820.2000.tb00573.x
1999
Do riverine barriers, history or introgression shape the genetic structuring of a common shrew (Sorex araneus) population?
Heredity
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01 Aug 1999
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doi:10.1046/j.1365-2540.1999.00567.x
An Improved Procedure for Testing the Effects of Key Innovations on Rate of Speciation
The American Naturalist
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01 May 1999
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doi:10.1086/303190
Hierarchical analyses of genetic differentiation in a hybrid zone of Sorex araneus (Insectivora: Soricidae)
Molecular Ecology
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01 Mar 1999
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doi:10.1046/j.1365-294X.1999.00595.x
Genetic structure of the genus Leptospira by multilocus enzyme electrophoresis
International Journal of Systematic and Evolutionary Microbiology
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01 Jan 1999
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doi:10.1099/00207713-49-1-231
1998
Restricted gene flow and subpopulation differentiation in Silene dioica
Heredity
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01 Jun 1998
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doi:10.1046/j.1365-2540.1998.00348.x
Rate of gene sequence evolution and species diversification in flowering plants: a re–evaluation
Proceedings of the Royal Society of London. Series B: Biological Sciences
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07 Apr 1998
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doi:10.1098/rspb.1998.0337
Microsatellite conservation, polymorphism, and GC content in shrews of the genus Sorex (Insectivora, Mammalia)
Molecular Biology and Evolution
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01 Apr 1998
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doi:10.1093/oxfordjournals.molbev.a025945
1997
Genetic Differentiation in Silene dioica Metapopulations: Estimation of Spatiotemporal Effects in a Successional Plant Species
The American Naturalist
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01 Mar 1997
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doi:10.1086/286002
Female-biased dispersal in the monogamous mammalCrocidura russula: evidence from field data and microsatellite patterns.
Proceedings of the Royal Society of London. Series B: Biological Sciences
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22 Jan 1997
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doi:10.1098/rspb.1997.0019
1996
Genetic structure of a linear population of Beta vulgaris ssp. maritima (sea beet) revealed by isozyme and RFLP analysis
Heredity
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01 Feb 1996
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doi:10.1038/hdy.1996.17
Genetic differentiation of continental and island populations of Bombus terrestris (Hymenoptera: Apidae) in Europe
Molecular Ecology
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01 Feb 1996
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doi:10.1111/j.1365-294X.1996.tb00288.x
1995
FSTAT (Version 1.2): A Computer Program to Calculate F-Statistics
Journal of Heredity
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01 Nov 1995
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doi:10.1093/oxfordjournals.jhered.a111627