Arild Husby
Senior Lecturer/Associate Professor at Department of Ecology and Genetics; Evolutionary Biology
- Telephone:
- +46 18 471 41 20
- E-mail:
- arild.husby@ebc.uu.se
- Visiting address:
- Evolutionsbiologiskt Centrum
Norbyvägen 18D
752 36 UPPSALA - Postal address:
- Evolutionsbiologiskt centrum
Norbyvägen 18D
752 36 UPPSALA
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Short presentation
I have broad interests in the fields of ecological genetics and genomics, but am particularly interested in how changing environmental conditions impact genetic variation.
Keywords
- dna methylation
- ecological genomics
- evolutionary biology
- phenotypic plasticity
- quantitative genetics
- wing polyphenism
Biography
2022 - Associate professor/Senior lecturer, Uppsala University
2018 - : Associate Senior Lecturer, Uppsala University
2014-2017: Assistant Professor, Helsinki University
2012-2014: Senior researcher, NTNU, Norway
2010-2012: Post doc Uppsala University
2006-2010: Marie Curie PhD, university of Edinburgh
Publications
Selection of publications
- Wild epigenetics (2022)
- Rapid evolution of sexual size dimorphism facilitated by Y-linked genetic variance (2021)
- Rapid changes in DNA methylation associated with the initiation of reproduction in a small songbird (2021)
- Temporal changes in DNA methylation and RNA expression in a small song bird (2021)
- On the Use of Blood Samples for Measuring DNA Methylation in Ecological Epigenetic Studies (2020)
- Support early-career researchers for post-pandemic prospects (2020)
- Consistent scaling of inbreeding depression in space and time in a house sparrow metapopulation (2020)
- Controlling for body size leads to inferential biases in the biological sciences (2020)
- Seasonal Variation in Genome-Wide DNA Methylation Patterns and the Onset of Seasonal Timing of Reproduction in Great Tits (2019)
- Genome-wide association mapping in a wild avian population identifies a link between genetic and phenotypic variation in a life-history trait (2015)
Recent publications
- Calling Structural Variants with Confidence from Short-Read Data in Wild Bird Populations (2024)
- The Genetic Architecture of Recombination Rates is Polygenic and Differs Between the Sexes in Wild House Sparrows (Passer domesticus) (2024)
- The genetic basis of dispersal in a vertebrate metapopulation (2024)
- Assortative Mating in an Ecological Context (2023)
- Maternal transmission gives way to social transmission during gut microbiota assembly in wild mice (2023)
All publications
Articles
- Calling Structural Variants with Confidence from Short-Read Data in Wild Bird Populations (2024)
- The Genetic Architecture of Recombination Rates is Polygenic and Differs Between the Sexes in Wild House Sparrows (Passer domesticus) (2024)
- The genetic basis of dispersal in a vertebrate metapopulation (2024)
- Assortative Mating in an Ecological Context (2023)
- Maternal transmission gives way to social transmission during gut microbiota assembly in wild mice (2023)
- Effects of environment and genotype on dispersal differ across departure, transfer and settlement in a butterfly metapopulation (2022)
- Photoperiod controls wing polyphenism in a water strider independently of insulin receptor signalling (2022)
- Functional genomic tools for emerging model species (2022)
- Wild epigenetics (2022)
- Infection by a helminth parasite is associated with changes in DNA methylation in the house sparrow (2022)
- Rapid evolution of sexual size dimorphism facilitated by Y-linked genetic variance (2021)
- Patterns of Cryptic Diversity and Phylogeography in Four Freshwater Copepod Crustaceans in European Lakes (2021)
- Rapid changes in DNA methylation associated with the initiation of reproduction in a small songbird (2021)
- Temporal changes in DNA methylation and RNA expression in a small song bird (2021)
- Social networks strongly predict the gut microbiota of wild mice (2021)
- Dispersal in a house sparrow metapopulation (2021)
- On the Use of Blood Samples for Measuring DNA Methylation in Ecological Epigenetic Studies (2020)
- Support early-career researchers for post-pandemic prospects (2020)
- Resistance to gapeworm parasite has both additive and dominant genetic components in house sparrows, with evolutionary consequences for ability to respond to parasite challenge (2020)
- Consistent scaling of inbreeding depression in space and time in a house sparrow metapopulation (2020)
- Controlling for body size leads to inferential biases in the biological sciences (2020)
- Temporally replicated DNA methylation patterns in great tit using reduced representation bisulfite sequencing (2019)
- Avian ecological epigenetics (2019)
- Seasonal Variation in Genome-Wide DNA Methylation Patterns and the Onset of Seasonal Timing of Reproduction in Great Tits (2019)
- Landscape permeability and individual variation in a dispersal-linked gene jointly determine genetic structure in the Glanville fritillary butterfly (2018)
- Inference of genetic architecture from chromosome partitioning analyses is sensitive to genome variation, sample size, heritability and effect size distribution (2018)
- Accounting for heteroscedasticity and censoring in chromosome partitioning analyses (2018)
- Inferences of genetic architecture of bill morphology in house sparrow using a high-density SNP array point to a polygenic basis (2018)
- Genome-wide association mapping in a wild avian population identifies a link between genetic and phenotypic variation in a life-history trait (2015)
- Estimation of linkage disequilibrium and interspecific gene flow in Ficedula flycatchers by a newly developed 50k single-nucleotide polymorphism array (2014)
- 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 (2014)
- Rapid and unpredictable changes of the G-matrix in a natural bird population over 25 years (2013)
- Sex chromosome linked genetic variance and the evolution of sexual dimorphism of quantitative traits (2013)
- Optimizing the trade-off between offspring number and quality in unpredictable environments (2013)
- Quantitative genetics of basal metabolic rate and body mass in free-living pied flycatchers (2012)
- Low Genetic Variance in the Duration of the Incubation Period in a Collared Flycatcher (Ficedula albicollis) Population (2012)
- Positive feedback between ecological and reproductive character displacement in a young avian hybrid zone (2012)
- Let's talk turkey (2011)
- Testing Mechanisms of Bergmann's Rule (2011)
- Speeding Up Microevolution (2011)
- Contrasting patterns of phenotypic plasticity in reproductive traits in two great tit (Parus major) populations (2010)
- Wing polyphenism in a water strider is caused by photoperiod-induced expression of the Fat/Hippo pathway
- Contribution of ecdysone signaling to photoperiodic wing polyphenism in the water strider Gerris buenoi
