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Introgression and rapid species turnover in sympatric damselfliesRosa A Sánchez-Guillén
Department of Ecology and Animal Biology, EUET, Forestry, Vigo University, 36005 Pontevedra, Spain
BMC Evol Biol 11:210. 2011..Furthermore, we quantify the effect of hybridization on the frequencies of the genetically controlled colour polymorphism in females of both species...- Island biology and morphological divergence of the Skyros wall lizard Podarcis gaigeae: a combined role for local selection and genetic drift on color morph frequency divergence?Anna Runemark
Section for Animal Ecology, Ecology Building, Lund University, SE 223 62 Lund, Sweden
BMC Evol Biol 10:269. 2010..We use divergence in throat color morph frequencies and compare that to neutral genetic variation to infer the evolutionary processes acting on islet- and mainland populations... - Do female great reed warblers seek extra-pair fertilizations to avoid inbreeding?Bengt Hansson
Department of Animal Ecology, Lund University, Ecology Building, S 223 62 Lund, Sweden
Proc Biol Sci 271:S290-2. 2004..Instead, female great reed warblers may seek other potential benefits when cuckolding, such as good gene effects at particular functional genes... - Postglacial colonisation patterns and the role of isolation and expansion in driving diversification in a passerine birdBengt Hansson
Department of Animal Ecology, Lund University, Ecology Building, Lund, Sweden
PLoS ONE 3:e2794. 2008..This is in line with the Pleistocene speciation hypothesis invoking that much longer periods of time in isolation are needed for speciation to occur... 
The use (or misuse) of microsatellite allelic distances in the context of inbreeding and conservation geneticsBengt Hansson
Department of Animal Ecology, Ecology Building, Lund University, S 223 62 Lund, Sweden
Mol Ecol 19:1082-90. 2010..Therefore, instead of hastily reached interpretations of mean d(2)-fitness correlations, conclusions need support from complementary analyses, e.g. verifying admixture of genetically structured populations...- Linkage mapping reveals sex-dimorphic map distances in a passerine birdBengt Hansson
School of Biological Sciences, University of Edinburgh, Institute of Evolutionary Biology, West Mains Road, Edinburgh EH9 3JT, UK
Proc Biol Sci 272:2289-98. 2005..2 cM) compared to females (237.2 cM; female/male map ratio: 2.15). The sex-specific recombination rates will facilitate the building of a denser linkage map and cast light on hypotheses about sex-specific recombination rates... 
Lifetime fitness of short- and long-distance dispersing great reed warblersBengt Hansson
Department of Animal Ecology, Ecology Building, Lund University, S 223 62 Lund, Sweden
Evolution 58:2546-57. 2004..Our study highlights the importance of separating immigrant birds on the basis of their genetic similarity to the local study population when analyzing variation in LRS and inferring realized gene flow...- Does linkage disequilibrium generate heterozygosity-fitness correlations in great reed warblers?Bengt Hansson
Department of Animal Ecology, Ecology Building, Lund University, S 223 62 Lund, Sweden
Evolution 58:870-9. 2004..Our present finding of a significant within-family multilocus heterozygosity-survival association in a nonequilibrium population supports the view that LD generates HFCs in natural populations... - A new approach to study dispersal: immigration of novel alleles reveals female-biased dispersal in great reed warblersBengt Hansson
Department of Animal Ecology, Ecology Building, Lund University, Sweden
Mol Ecol 12:631-7. 2003.... - Increase of genetic variation over time in a recently founded population of great reed warblers (Acrocephalus arundinaceus) revealed by microsatellites and DNA fingerprintingB Hansson
Department of Animal Ecology, Ecology Building, Lund University, S 223 62 Lund, Sweden
Mol Ecol 9:1529-38. 2000..These results suggest that the population has now recovered genetically, or is in the process of recovering, from a recent founder event... - Avian genome evolution: insights from a linkage map of the blue tit (Cyanistes caeruleus)B Hansson
Department of Animal Ecology, Lund University, Lund S 223 62, Sweden
Heredity (Edinb) 104:67-78. 2010..Apart from providing insights into avian recombination and genome evolution, our blue tit linkage map forms a valuable genetic resource for ecological and evolutionary research in Paridae... - Microsatellite diversity predicts recruitment of sibling great reed warblersB Hansson
Department of Animal Ecology, Ecology Building, Lund University, S 223 62 Lund, Sweden
Proc Biol Sci 268:1287-91. 2001..These relationships suggest that the microsatellite markers, which are generally assumed to be neutral, cosegregated with genes exhibiting genetic variation for fitness... - On the correlation between heterozygosity and fitness in natural populationsBengt Hansson
Department of Animal Ecology, Ecology Building, Lund University, 223 62 Lund, Sweden
Mol Ecol 11:2467-74. 2002..We provide an account of the recent progress on the subject, and give suggestions on how to distinguish between the three hypotheses in future studies... - Comparative gene mapping in Arabidopsis lyrata chromosomes 6 and 7 and A. thaliana chromosome IV: evolutionary history, rearrangements and local recombination ratesAkira Kawabe
Institute of Evolutionary Biology, University of Edinburgh, Ashworth Laboratories King's Buildings, West Mains Road, Edinburgh EH9 3JT, UK
Genet Res 88:45-56. 2006..There were significantly fewer recombination events in the closer than the more distant region, supporting the above prediction, but showing that the low recombination region is very limited in size... - Comparative gene mapping in Arabidopsis lyrata chromosomes 1 and 2 and the corresponding A. thaliana chromosome 1: recombination rates, rearrangements and centromere locationBengt Hansson
Institute of Evolutionary Biology, School of Biological Sciences, University of Edinburgh, West Mains Road, Edinburgh EH9 3JT, UK
Genet Res 87:75-85. 2006..Given the two species' large DNA content difference, the similarity of map lengths, particularly for LG1, suggests that crossing-over is more frequent across comparable physical distances in the inbreeder, A. thaliana, as predicted... - A strong quantitative trait locus for wing length on chromosome 2 in a wild population of great reed warblersMaja Tarka
Section for Animal Ecology, Department of Biology, Lund University, 223 62 Lund, Sweden
Proc Biol Sci 277:2361-9. 2010..Our results provide a first important step into understanding the genetic architecture of avian wing length, and give opportunities to study the evolutionary dynamics of wing length at the locus level... - Do microsatellites reflect genome-wide genetic diversity in natural populations? A comment on Väli et al. (2008)Marcus Ljungqvist
Department of Animal Ecology, Ecology Building, Lund University, S 223 62 Lund, Sweden
Mol Ecol 19:851-5. 2010..The importance of identity disequilibrium was apparent for both markers and there was a clear impact of marker variability... - The sex-biased brain: sexual dimorphism in gene expression in two species of songbirdsSara Naurin
Department of Biology, Lund University, Ecology Building, S 223 62 Lund, Sweden
BMC Genomics 12:37. 2011..Studies of gene expression in related species can shed light on the flexibility, or degree of conservation, of the gene expression profiles underlying sexual dimorphism... 
Selection for heterozygosity gives hope to a wild population of inbred wolvesStaffan Bensch
Department of Animal Ecology, Lund University, Lund, Sweden
PLoS ONE 1:e72. 2006..Following our results we recommend that management programs of endangered populations include estimates of both f and heterozygosity, as they may contribute with complementary information about population viability...- Linkage mapping of AFLP markers in a wild population of great reed warblers: importance of heterozygosity and number of genotyped individualsMikael Akesson
Department of Animal Ecology, Ecology Building, Lund University, S 223 62 Lund, Sweden
Mol Ecol 16:2189-202. 2007..Our results suggest that AFLP provides a fast and inexpensive means of enlarging genetic maps already composed of markers with high polymorphism, also in wild populations with unmanipulated pedigrees... - Estimating heritabilities and genetic correlations: comparing the 'animal model' with parent-offspring regression using data from a natural populationMikael Akesson
Department of Animal Ecology, Lund University, Lund, Sweden
PLoS ONE 3:e1739. 2008..Our conclusions should be valuable for reconciliation of data obtained in earlier studies as well as for future meta-analyses utilizing estimates from both traditional methods and the animal model... - Hybridization but no evidence for backcrossing and introgression in a sympatric population of great reed warblers and clamorous reed warblersBengt Hansson
Department of Biology, Lund University, Lund, Sweden
PLoS ONE 7:e31667. 2012..Very low levels of introgression cannot be excluded, which still may be an important factor as a source of new genetic variation... - Associations between malaria and MHC genes in a migratory songbirdHelena Westerdahl
Department of Animal Ecology, Lund University, Ecology Building, 223 62 Lund, Sweden
Proc Biol Sci 272:1511-8. 2005..These associations suggest that individuals carrying either a large number of MHC alleles or a specific MHC allele are protected against lethal malaria infections... - Temporal dynamics and diversity of avian malaria parasites in a single host speciesStaffan Bensch
Department of Animal Ecology, Ecology Building, Lund University, S 223 62 Lund Sweden
J Anim Ecol 76:112-22. 2007.... - An analysis of population genetic differentiation and genotype-phenotype association across the hybrid zone of carrion and hooded crows using microsatellites and MC1RFredrik Haas
Department of Theoretical Ecology, Ecology Building, Lund University, SE 223 62 Lund, Sweden
Mol Ecol 18:294-305. 2009.... - TECHNICAL ADVANCES: A microarray for large-scale genomic and transcriptional analyses of the zebra finch (Taeniopygia guttata) and other passerinesSara Naurin
Animal Ecology, Department of Ecology, Ecology Building, Lund University, S 223 62 Lund, Sweden Microbial Ecology, Department of Ecology, Ecology Building, Lund University, S 223 62 Lund, Sweden Cell and Structural Biology, Neuroscience and Bioengineering, Beckman Institute, University of Illinois, Urbana Champaign, IL 61801, USA Swegene Center for Integrative Biology at Lund University SCIBLU, Department of Immunotechnology, SE 221 84 Lund, Sweden
Mol Ecol Resour 8:275-81. 2008..Passerine birds are widely used in studies of ecology and evolution, and a zebra finch array that can be used for many species may have a large impact on future research directions... - Performance of marker-based relatedness estimators in natural populations of outbred vertebratesKatalin Csilléry
Institute of Evolutionary Biology, School of Biological Sciences, University of Edinburgh, UK
Genetics 173:2091-101. 2006..Our five examples of vertebrate breeding systems suggest that due to the remarkably low variance in relatedness across the population, marker-based estimates may often have low power to address research questions of interest... - Host specificity in avian blood parasites: a study of Plasmodium and Haemoproteus mitochondrial DNA amplified from birdsS Bensch
Department of Animal Ecology, Lund University, Sweden
Proc Biol Sci 267:1583-9. 2000..Hence, host shifts seem to have occurred repeatedly in this parasite host system. We discuss this in terms of the possible evolutionary consequences for these bird species... - Partial albinism in a semi-isolated population of great reed warblersS Bensch
Department of Animal Ecology, Ecology Building, Lund University, SE 223 62 Lund, Sweden
Hereditas 133:167-70. 2000..The albinistic birds experienced a similar lifetime reproductive success as normally coloured birds... - Between-year variation of MHC allele frequencies in great reed warblers: selection or drift?H Westerdahl
Department of Animal Ecology, Lund University, Sweden
J Evol Biol 17:485-92. 2004..These results imply that the variation in MHC allele frequencies between cohorts is not a result of demographic events, but rather an effect of selection favouring different MHC alleles in different years... - Sex-biased gene expression on the avian z chromosome: highly expressed genes show higher male-biased expressionSara Naurin
Department of Biology, Lund University, Lund, Sweden
PLoS ONE 7:e46854. 2012..The male-bias in highly expressed genes points towards male-driven selection on Z-linked loci, and this and other possible hypotheses are discussed... - Vicariance divergence and gene flow among islet populations of an endemic lizardAnna Runemark
Department of Biology, Ecology Building, Lund University, SE 223 62 Lund, Sweden
Mol Ecol 21:117-29. 2012..Ongoing gene flow between the subspecies suggests that even in this geographically allopatric scenario with the sea posing a strong barrier to dispersal, divergence with some gene flow is still feasible... - Environmental and climatic determinants of molecular diversity and genetic population structure in a coenagrionid damselflyMaren Wellenreuther
Department of Biology, Lund University, Lund, Sweden
PLoS ONE 6:e20440. 2011..elegans has high dispersal ability, which is consistent with this species being an effective and early coloniser of new habitats... - Why does dosage compensation differ between XY and ZW taxa?Sara Naurin
Department of Animal Ecology, Ecology Building, Lund University, SE 22362 Lund, Sweden
Trends Genet 26:15-20. 2010..These patterns and processes contrast with those acting on genes on the X chromosome in XY species, and might help explain the discrepancies in the degree of sex-biased gene expression and dosage compensation in XY and ZW systems... - Patterns of Molecular Evolution of an Avian Neo-sex ChromosomeIrene Pala
Molecular Ecology and Evolution Lab, Department of Biology, Lund University, Lund, Sweden
Mol Biol Evol 29:3741-54. 2012..e., after ∼39.4 Ma). The Sylvioidea neo-sex chromosome shares classical evolutionary features with the ancestral sex chromosomes but, as expected from its more recent origin, shows weaker divergence between gametologs... - Centromere locations and associated chromosome rearrangements in Arabidopsis lyrata and A. thalianaAkira Kawabe
Institute of Evolutionary Biology, University of Edinburgh, Edinburgh EH9 3JT, United Kingdom
Genetics 173:1613-9. 2006..thaliana chromosomes. However, we cannot tell whether genes were lost along with these centromeres, because such genes are absent from the A. thaliana genome, which is the sole source of markers for our mapping... - Observation of a ZZW female in a natural population: implications for avian sex determinationD Arit
Department of Animal Ecology, Lund University, Ecology Building, S-223 62 Lund, Sweden
Proc Biol Sci 271:S249-51. 2004..Our data strongly suggest a role of W-linked genes in avian sex determination... - Identification of 20 polymorphic microsatellite loci in European crow (Corvus corone) from existing passerine lociFredrik Haas
Department of Theoretical Ecology, Department of Animal Ecology, Ecology Building, Lund University, SE 223 62 Lund, Sweden
Mol Ecol Resour 8:846-50. 2008..These 20 loci were highly successful in amplifying polymorphic products also in other crow populations and in another Corvidae species, the rook (Corvus frugilegus)... - A genome-wide set of 106 microsatellite markers for the blue tit (Cyanistes caeruleus)Juanita Olano-Marin
Department of Behavioral Ecology and Evolutionary Genetics, Max Planck Institute for Ornithology, Postfach 1564, D 82305 Starnberg Seewiesen, Germany Department of Animal and Plant Sciences, University of Sheffield, Sheffield S10 2TN, UK Department of Animal Ecology, Ecology Building, Lund University, SE 223 62 Lund, Sweden
Mol Ecol Resour 10:516-32. 2010.... - Isolation and cross-species amplification of microsatellite loci in the Siberian jay (Perisoreus infaustus)Bo Göran Lillandt
Department of Ecology and Systematics, Zoological Laboratory, University of Helsinki, Finland
Hereditas 137:157-60. 2002 - A predicted microsatellite map of the passerine genome based on chicken-passerine sequence similarityDeborah A Dawson
Sheffield Molecular Genetics Facility, Department of Animal and Plant Sciences, University of Sheffield, Sheffield S10 2TN, UK
Mol Ecol 15:1299-320. 2006.... - Dynamics of parasitemia of malaria parasites in a naturally and experimentally infected migratory songbird, the great reed warbler Acrocephalus arundinaceusPavel Zehtindjiev
Institute of Zoology, Bulgarian Academy of Sciences, Boulevard, Tzar Osvoboditel 1, 1000 Sofia, Bulgaria
Exp Parasitol 119:99-110. 2008.... - Gene order and recombination rate in homologous chromosome regions of the chicken and a passerine birdDeborah A Dawson
Department of Animal and Plant Sciences, University of Sheffield, Western Bank, Sheffield, United Kingdom
Mol Biol Evol 24:1537-52. 2007....