Publications

Single-Cell Transcriptomics reveals relaxed evolutionary constraint of spermatogenesis in two passerine birds as compared to mammals

Segami, Carolina; Semon, Marie; Cunha, Catarina; Bergin, Claudia et al.

2022.

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Species-specific song responses emerge as a by-product of tuning to the local dialect

Wheatcroft, David; Bliard, Louis; El Harouchi, Myriam; Lopez-Idiaquez, David et al.

Part of Current Biology, p. 5153-5158, 2022.

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The role of introductory alarm calls for song discrimination in Ficedula flycatchers

Bliard, Louis; Qvarnström, Anna; Wheatcroft, David

Part of Animal Behaviour, p. 241-251, 2021.

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Homage to Felsenstein 1981, or why are there so few/many species?

Butlin, Roger K.; Servedio, Maria R.; Smadja, Carole M.; Bank, Claudia et al.

Part of Evolution, p. 978-988, 2021.

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Adaptive coloration in pied flycatchers (Ficedula hypoleuca) - The devil is in the detail

Sirkiä, Päivi M.; Qvarnström, Anna

Part of Ecology and Evolution, p. 1501-1525, 2021.

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Should females prefer old males?

Segami, Julia Carolina; Lind, Martin I.; Qvarnström, Anna

Part of Evolution Letters, p. 507-520, 2021.

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Low Heritability but Significant Early Environmental Effects on Resting Metabolic Rate in a Wild Passerine

McFarlane, S. Eryn; Ålund, Murielle; Sirkiä, Päivi M.; Qvarnström, Anna

Part of American Naturalist, p. 551-560, 2021.

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Low Heritability but Significant Early Environmental Effects on Resting Metabolic Rate in a Wild Passerine

McFarlane, S. Eryn; Ålund, Murielle; Sirkiä, Päivi M; Qvarnström, Anna

Part of American Naturalist, p. 551-560, 2021.

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Differences in incubation behaviour and niche separation of two competing flycatcher species

Koski, Tuuli-Marjaana; Sirkia, Paivi M.; McFarlane, S. Eryn; Alund, Murielle et al.

Part of Behavioral Ecology and Sociobiology, 2020.

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Tissue-specific patterns of regulatory changes underlying gene expression differences among Ficedula flycatchers and their naturally occurring F₁ hybrids

Mugal, Carina; Wang, Mi; Backström, Niclas; Wheatcroft, David et al.

Part of Genome Research, p. 1727-1739, 2020.

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Fluctuating optimum and temporally variable selection on breeding date in birds and mammals

de Villemereuil, Pierre; Charmantier, Anne; Arlt, Debora; Bize, Pierre et al.

Part of Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America, p. 31969-31978, 2020.

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Endless forms of sexual selection

Lindsay, Willow R.; Andersson, Staffan; Bererhi, Badreddine; Höglund, Jacob et al.

Part of PeerJ, 2019.

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Difference in plasticity of resting metabolic rate - the proximate explanation to different niche breadth in sympatric Ficedula flycatchers

McFarlane, S. Eryn; Ålund, Murielle; Sirkiä, Paivi M.; Qvarnström, Anna

Part of Ecology and Evolution, p. 4575-4586, 2018.

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Interspecific transfer of parasites following a range‐shift in Ficedula flycatcher

Jones, William; Kulma, Katarzyna; Bensch, Staffan; Cichoń, Mariusz et al.

Part of Ecology and Evolution, p. 12183-12192, 2018.

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Climate-driven build-up of temporal isolation within a recently formed avian hybrid zone.

Sirkiä, Päivi M; McFarlane, S. Eryn; Jones, William; Wheatcroft, David et al.

Part of Evolution, p. 363-374, 2018.

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Optimal sperm length for high siring success depends on forehead patch size in collared flycatchers

Ålund, Murielle; Persson Schmiterlöw, Siri; McFarlane, S. Eryn; Qvarnström, Anna

Part of Behavioral Ecology, p. 1436-1443, 2018.

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Reproductive character displacement of female, but not male song discrimination in an avian hybrid zone

Wheatcroft, David; Qvarnström, Anna

Part of Evolution, p. 1776-1786, 2017.

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Sexual selection affects climate adaptation in collared flycatchers

McFarlane, S. Eryn; Ålund, Murielle; Sirkiä, Päivi M.; Qvarnström, Anna

2017.

Inferring Individual Inbreeding and Demographic History from Segments of Identity by Descent in Ficedula Flycatcher Genome Sequences

Kardos, Marty; Qvarnström, Anna; Ellegren, Hans

Part of Genetics, p. 1319-1334, 2017.

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Genetic divergence of early song discrimination between two young songbird species

Wheatcroft, David; Qvarnström, Anna

Part of NATURE ECOLOGY & EVOLUTION, 2017.

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Insights into the genetic architecture of morphological traits in two passerine bird species

Silva, C. N. S.; McFarlane, S. Eryn; Hagen, I. J.; Ronnegard, L. et al.

Part of Heredity, p. 197-205, 2017.

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Cryptic female Strawberry poison frogs experience elevated predation risk when associating with an aposematic partner

Segami Marzal, Julia Carolina; Rudh, Andreas; Rogell, Björn; Ödeen, Anders et al.

Part of Ecology and Evolution, p. 744-750, 2017.

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Species replacement reduces community participation in avian antipredator groups

Wheatcroft, David; Gallego-Abenza, Mario; Qvarnström, Anna

Part of Behavioral Ecology, p. 1499-1506, 2016.

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Direct estimate of the rate of germline mutation in a bird

Smeds, Linnea; Qvarnström, Anna; Ellegren, Hans

Part of Genome Research, p. 1211-1218, 2016.

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Song discrimination by nestling collared flycatchers during early development

McFarlane, S. Eryn; Söderberg, Axel; Wheatcroft, David; Qvarnström, Anna

Part of Biology Letters, 2016.

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Females discriminate against heterospecific sperm in a natural hybrid zone

Cramer, Emily R. A.; Ålund, Murielle; McFarlane, S. Eryn; Johnsen, Arild et al.

Part of Evolution, p. 1844-1855, 2016.

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Increasing the power of genome wide association studies in natural populations using repeated measures - evaluation and implementation

Rönnegård, Lars; McFarlane, S. Eryn; Husby, Arild; Kawakami, Takeshi et al.

Part of Methods in Ecology and Evolution, p. 792-799, 2016.

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Whole-genome resequencing of extreme phenotypes in collared flycatchers highlights the difficulty of detecting quantitative trait loci in natural populations

Kardos, Marty; Husby, Arild; McFarlane, S. Eryn; Qvarnström, Anna et al.

Part of Molecular Ecology Resources, p. 727-741, 2016.

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Hybrid Dysfunction Expressed as Elevated Metabolic Rate in Male Ficedula Flycatchers

McFarlane, S. Eryn; Sirkiä, Päivi; Ålund, Murielle; Qvarnström, Anna

Part of PLOS ONE, 2016.

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Ultra-Rapid Vision in Birds

Boström, Jannika E.; Dimitrova, Marina; Canton, Cindy; Hastad, Olle et al.

Part of PLOS ONE, 2016.

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Competition-driven build-up of habitat isolation and selection favoring modified dispersal patterns in a young avian hybrid zone

Rybinski, Jakub; Sirkia, Paivi M.; McFarlane, S. Eryn; Vallin, Niclas et al.

Part of Evolution, p. 2226-2238, 2016.

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High-Resolution Mapping of Crossover and Non-crossover Recombination Events by Whole-Genome Re-sequencing of an Avian Pedigree

Smeds, Linnéa; Mugal, Carina F; Qvarnström, Anna; Ellegren, Hans

Part of PLOS Genetics, 2016.

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A blueprint for vocal learning: auditory predispositions from brains genomes

Wheatcroft, David; Qvarnström, Anna

Part of Biology Letters, 2015.

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Linked selection and recombination rate variation drive the evolution of the genomic landscape of differentiation across the speciation continuum of Ficedula flycatchers

Burri, Reto; Nater, Alexander; Kawakami, Takeshi; Mugal, Carina F. et al.

Part of Genome Research, p. 1656-1665, 2015.

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Evolutionary analysis of the female-specific avian W chromosome

Smeds, Linnea; Warmuth, Vera; Bolivar, Paulina; Uebbing, Severin et al.

Part of Nature Communications, 2015.

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Climate adaptation and speciation: particular focus on reproductive barriers in Ficedula flycatchers

Qvarnström, Anna; Ålund, Murielle; McFarlane, Eryn S.; Sirkiä, Päivi M.

Part of Evolutionary Applications, p. 119-134, 2015.

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Genome-wide association mapping in a wild avian population identifies a link between genetic and phenotypic variation in a life-history trait

Husby, Arild; Kawakami, Takeshi; Ronnegard, Lars; Smeds, Linnea et al.

Part of Proceedings of the Royal Society of London. Biological Sciences, 2015.

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Influence of the Environment on the Genetic Architecture of Traits Involved in Sexual Selection within Wild Populations

Robinson, Matthew R; Qvarnström, Anna

Part of Genotype-by-Environment Interactions and Sexual Selection, 2014.

Genomic identification and characterization of the pseudoautosomal region in highly differentiated avian sex chromosomes

Smeds, Linnea; Kawakami, Takeshi; Burri, Reto; Bolivar, Paulina et al.

Part of Nature Communications, p. 5448-, 2014.

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Large-scale geographical variation in eggshell metal and calcium content in a passerine bird (Ficedula hypoleuca)

Ruuskanen, Suvi; Laaksonen, Toni; Morales, Judith; Moreno, Juan et al.

Part of Environmental Science and Pollution Research, p. 3304-3317, 2014.

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Malaria-infected female collared flycatchers (Ficedula albicollis) do not pay the cost of late breeding

Kulma, Katarzyna; Low, Matthew; Bensch, Staffan; Qvarnström, Anna

Part of PLOS ONE, p. e85822-, 2014.

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Coarse Dark Patterning Functionally Constrains Adaptive Shifts from Aposematism to Crypsis in Strawberry Poison Frogs

Qvarnström, Anna; Rudh, Andreas; Edström, Torkel; Ödeen, Anders et al.

Part of Evolution, p. 2793-2803, 2014.

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Estimation of linkage disequilibrium and interspecific gene flow in Ficedula flycatchers by a newly developed 50k single-nucleotide polymorphism array

Kawakami, Takeshi; Backström, Niclas; Burri, Reto; Husby, Arild et al.

Part of Molecular Ecology Resources, p. 1248-1260, 2014.

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A high-density linkage map enables a second-generation collared flycatcher genome assembly and reveals the patterns of avian recombination rate variation and chromosomal evolution

Kawakami, Takeshi; Smeds, Linnea; Backstrom, Niclas; Husby, Arild et al.

Part of Molecular Ecology, p. 4035-4058, 2014.

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Optimizing the trade-off between offspring number and quality in unpredictable environments: Testing the role of differential androgen transfer to collared flycatcher eggs

Rice, Amber M.; Vallin, Niclas; Kulma, Katarzyna; Arntsen, Hanna et al.

Part of Hormones and Behavior, p. 813-822, 2013.

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Malaria infections reinforce competitive asymmetry between two Ficedula flycatchers in a recent contact zone

Kulma, Katarzyna; Low, Matthew; Bensch, Staffan; Qvarnström, Anna

Part of Molecular Ecology, p. 4591-4601, 2013.

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Variation in eggshell traits between geographically distant populations of pied flycatchers Ficedula hypoleuca

Morales, Judith; Ruuskanen, Suvi; Laaksonen, Toni; Eeva, Tapio et al.

Part of Journal of Avian Biology, p. 111-120, 2013.

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Sex chromosome linked genetic variance and the evolution of sexual dimorphism of quantitative traits

Husby, Arild; Schielzeth, Holger; Forstmeier, Wolfgang; Gustafsson, Lars et al.

Part of Evolution, p. 609-619, 2013.

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Relative performance of hybrid nestlings in Ficedula flycatchers: a translocation experiment

Vallin, Niclas; Nonaka, Yuki; Feng, Jue; Qvarnström, Anna

Part of Ecology and Evolution, p. 356-364, 2013.

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Low fertility of wild hybrid male flycatchers despite recent divergence

Ålund, Murielle; Immler, Simone; Rice, Amber M.; Qvarnström, Anna

Part of Biology Letters, 2013.

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