How glaciation impacted evolutionary history and contemporary genetic diversity of flora and fauna in the British Isles

S Fenton, KR Elmer, CW Bean… - Scottish Geographical …, 2023 - Taylor & Francis
Ice coverage not only affects the climate and landscape of geographical regions but has
impacted species composition, the fragmentation and isolation of populations, and the …

Rapid adaptation through genomic and epigenomic responses following translocations in an endangered salmonid

M Crotti, E Yohannes, IJ Winfield, AA Lyle… - Evolutionary …, 2021 - Wiley Online Library
Identifying the molecular mechanisms facilitating adaptation to new environments is a key
question in evolutionary biology, especially in the face of current rapid and human‐induced …

Extinction risks and threats facing the freshwater fishes of Britain

AD Nunn, RF Ainsworth, S Walton… - Aquatic …, 2023 - Wiley Online Library
Extinctions occur naturally in all environments, but rates have accelerated rapidly during the
Anthropocene, especially in fresh water. Despite supporting many fish species of …

Testing the radiation cascade in postglacial radiations of whitefish and their parasites: founder events and host ecology drive parasite evolution

J Brabec, J Gauthier, OM Selz, R Knudsen… - Evolution …, 2024 - academic.oup.com
Reciprocal effects of adaptive radiations on the evolution of interspecific interactions, like
parasitism, remain barely explored. We test whether the recent radiations of European …

Variability of Some Meristic Features and Polymorphism of the Mitochondrial DNA Fragment, Including the nd1 Gene, of Whitefishes of the Coregonus lavaretus sensu …

DS Sendek, NA Bochkarev, EI Zuykova… - … Problems of Ecology, 2024 - Springer
Phylogeographic and morphological analyses of European whitefish Coregonus lavaretus
from Europe and the level of polymorphism of the mtDNA nd1 gene indicate a relatively …

How diverse is the toolbox? A review of management actions to conserve or restore coregonines

DB Bunnell, O Anneville, J Baer… - International …, 2024 - limnology-journal.org
Over the past centuries, coregonines have been exposed to a range of stressors that have
led to extinctions, extirpations, and speciation reversals. Given that some populations …

Fine-Tuning GBS Data with Comparison of Reference and Mock Genome Approaches for Advancing Genomic Selection in Less Studied Farmed Species

D Fischer, M Tapio, O Bitz, T Iso-Touru, A Kause… - bioRxiv, 2023 - biorxiv.org
Background: Diversifying animal cultivation demands efficient genotyping for enabling
genomic selection, but non-model species lack efficient genotyping solutions. The aim of this …