Murielle Ålund
Researcher at Department of Ecology and Genetics; Animal Ecology
- Visiting address:
- Evolutionsbiologiskt centrum (EBC)
Norbyvägen 18 D - Postal address:
- Norbyvägen 18 D
752 36 UPPSALA
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Short presentation
I study how changes in environment & distribution ranges affect animals, their interactions with each other, other sexes and closely related species. I work with hybridizing collared and pied flycatchers (birds) in Sweden and Icelandic threespine stickleback (fish), as well as their respective parasites and how they affect reproduction & life history traits.
Contact me for a project, in the lab all year around / in the field in May and June on Öland!
Website: https://muriellealund.wordpress.com/
Biography
2020-2021: Researcher, Avian malaria and chemical ecology of insect vectors, Uppsala University
2019-2020: SNSF Postdoctoral Fellow, Effect of ovarian fluid on sperm in threespine stickleback, Michigan State University, USA
2018-2019: Research Associate, Jenny Boughman's Lab, Evolution of sensory systems in threespine stickleback, Michigan State University, USA
2017-2018: Researcher, Simone Immler's Lab, Evolution of germline in zebrafish, Uppsala University
2011-2017 : PhD-student in Anna Qvarnström's Lab, Uppsala University, Sweden
2009-2011: Master of Evolutionary Biology, Uppsala University, Sweden
2006-2009: Bachelor of Science, sp. Zoology, Universität Bern, Switzerland
Publications
Recent publications
- Synthesis and Scope of the Role of Postmating Prezygotic Isolation in Speciation (2024)
- Sperm, eggs, pollen, and gelato, oh my! (2024)
- Tracking hybrid viability across life stages in a natural avian contact zone (2024)
- Assortative Mating in an Ecological Context (2023)
- Anthropogenic Change and the Process of Speciation (2023)
All publications
Articles
- Synthesis and Scope of the Role of Postmating Prezygotic Isolation in Speciation (2024)
- Sperm, eggs, pollen, and gelato, oh my! (2024)
- Tracking hybrid viability across life stages in a natural avian contact zone (2024)
- Assortative Mating in an Ecological Context (2023)
- Anthropogenic Change and the Process of Speciation (2023)
- Sensory environment affects Icelandic threespine stickleback's anti-predator escape behaviour (2022)
- Low Heritability but Significant Early Environmental Effects on Resting Metabolic Rate in a Wild Passerine (2021)
- Sexual selection and environmental change (2021)
- Tissue-specific patterns of regulatory changes underlying gene expression differences among Ficedula flycatchers and their naturally occurring F1 hybrids (2020)
- Difference in plasticity of resting metabolic rate - the proximate explanation to different niche breadth in sympatric Ficedula flycatchers (2018)
- Climate-driven build-up of temporal isolation within a recently formed avian hybrid zone. (2018)
- Optimal sperm length for high siring success depends on forehead patch size in collared flycatchers (2018)
- Females discriminate against heterospecific sperm in a natural hybrid zone (2016)
- Hybrid Dysfunction Expressed as Elevated Metabolic Rate in Male Ficedula Flycatchers (2016)
- Competition-driven build-up of habitat isolation and selection favoring modified dispersal patterns in a young avian hybrid zone (2016)
- Climate adaptation and speciation (2015)
- Estimation of linkage disequilibrium and interspecific gene flow in Ficedula flycatchers by a newly developed 50k single-nucleotide polymorphism array (2014)
- Low fertility of wild hybrid male flycatchers despite recent divergence (2013)
- Sperm morphology, swimming velocity, and longevity in the house sparrow Passer domesticus (2010)
- The combination of HiFi and HiC sequencing technologies enables the investigation of structural variants in speciation of Ficedula flycatchers
- Adjustment of resting metabolic rate by pied flycatchers to the environment promotes regional coexistence with sister species
- Hybrid viability across life-stages in a natural contact zone
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