Anna Qvarnström
Professor , Head of Program for Animal Ecology at Department of Ecology and Genetics; Animal Ecology
- Telephone:
- +46 18 471 64 06
- Mobile phone:
- +46 70 425 08 05
- E-mail:
- Anna.Qvarnstrom@ebc.uu.se
- Visiting address:
- Evolutionsbiologiskt centrum (EBC)
Norbyvägen 18 D - Postal address:
- Norbyvägen 18 D
752 36 UPPSALA

Publications
Recent publications
Part of G3, 2025
- DOI for Divergence in expression of a singing-related neuroplasticity gene in the brains of 2 Ficedula flycatchers and their hybrids
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Part of BMC Biology, 2024
- DOI for Regulatory and evolutionary impact of DNA methylation in two songbird species and their naturally occurring F1 hybrids
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Location and timing of infection drives a sex-bias in Haemoproteus prevalence in a hole-nesting bird
Part of Parasitology, p. 875-883, 2024
- DOI for Location and timing of infection drives a sex-bias in Haemoproteus prevalence in a hole-nesting bird
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Inheritance of Material Wealth in a Natural Population
Part of Ecology Letters, 2024
- DOI for Inheritance of Material Wealth in a Natural Population
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Tracking hybrid viability across life stages in a natural avian contact zone
Part of Evolution, p. 267-283, 2024
- DOI for Tracking hybrid viability across life stages in a natural avian contact zone
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All publications
Articles in journal
Part of G3, 2025
- DOI for Divergence in expression of a singing-related neuroplasticity gene in the brains of 2 Ficedula flycatchers and their hybrids
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Part of BMC Biology, 2024
- DOI for Regulatory and evolutionary impact of DNA methylation in two songbird species and their naturally occurring F1 hybrids
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Location and timing of infection drives a sex-bias in Haemoproteus prevalence in a hole-nesting bird
Part of Parasitology, p. 875-883, 2024
- DOI for Location and timing of infection drives a sex-bias in Haemoproteus prevalence in a hole-nesting bird
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Inheritance of Material Wealth in a Natural Population
Part of Ecology Letters, 2024
- DOI for Inheritance of Material Wealth in a Natural Population
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Tracking hybrid viability across life stages in a natural avian contact zone
Part of Evolution, p. 267-283, 2024
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Unclear relationships between mean survival rate and its environmental variance in vertebrates
Part of Ecology and Evolution, 2024
- DOI for Unclear relationships between mean survival rate and its environmental variance in vertebrates
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Anthropogenic Change and the Process of Speciation
Part of Cold Spring Harbor Perspectives in Biology, 2023
Part of American Naturalist, p. 125-137, 2023
- DOI for Assortative Mating in an Ecological Context: Effects of Mate Choice Errors and Relative Species Abundance on the Frequency and Asymmetry of Hybridization
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Species-specific song responses emerge as a by-product of tuning to the local dialect
Part of Current Biology, p. 5153-5158, 2022
- DOI for Species-specific song responses emerge as a by-product of tuning to the local dialect
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Should females prefer old males?
Part of Evolution Letters, p. 507-520, 2021
- DOI for Should females prefer old males?
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Homage to Felsenstein 1981, or why are there so few/many species?
Part of Evolution, p. 978-988, 2021
The role of introductory alarm calls for song discrimination in Ficedula flycatchers
Part of Animal Behaviour, p. 241-251, 2021
- DOI for The role of introductory alarm calls for song discrimination in Ficedula flycatchers
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Part of American Naturalist, p. 551-560, 2021
Part of Genome Research, p. 1727-1739, 2020
- DOI for Tissue-specific patterns of regulatory changes underlying gene expression differences among Ficedula flycatchers and their naturally occurring F1 hybrids
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Fluctuating optimum and temporally variable selection on breeding date in birds and mammals
Part of Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America, p. 31969-31978, 2020
Differences in incubation behaviour and niche separation of two competing flycatcher species
Part of Behavioral Ecology and Sociobiology, 2020
- DOI for Differences in incubation behaviour and niche separation of two competing flycatcher species
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Endless forms of sexual selection
Part of PeerJ, 2019
- DOI for Endless forms of sexual selection
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Part of Ecology and Evolution, p. 4575-4586, 2018
- DOI for Difference in plasticity of resting metabolic rate - the proximate explanation to different niche breadth in sympatric Ficedula flycatchers
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Interspecific transfer of parasites following a range‐shift in Ficedula flycatcher
Part of Ecology and Evolution, p. 12183-12192, 2018
- DOI for Interspecific transfer of parasites following a range‐shift in Ficedula flycatcher
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Climate-driven build-up of temporal isolation within a recently formed avian hybrid zone.
Part of Evolution, p. 363-374, 2018
Optimal sperm length for high siring success depends on forehead patch size in collared flycatchers
Part of Behavioral Ecology, p. 1436-1443, 2018
- DOI for Optimal sperm length for high siring success depends on forehead patch size in collared flycatchers
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Part of Genetics, p. 1319-1334, 2017
Genetic divergence of early song discrimination between two young songbird species
Part of NATURE ECOLOGY & EVOLUTION, 2017
Part of Ecology and Evolution, p. 744-750, 2017
- DOI for Cryptic female Strawberry poison frogs experience elevated predation risk when associating with an aposematic partner
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Insights into the genetic architecture of morphological traits in two passerine bird species
Part of Heredity, p. 197-205, 2017
Part of Evolution, p. 1776-1786, 2017
Part of Molecular Ecology Resources, p. 727-741, 2016
Part of PLOS Genetics, 2016
- DOI for High-Resolution Mapping of Crossover and Non-crossover Recombination Events by Whole-Genome Re-sequencing of an Avian Pedigree
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Direct estimate of the rate of germline mutation in a bird
Part of Genome Research, p. 1211-1218, 2016
- DOI for Direct estimate of the rate of germline mutation in a bird
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Part of Methods in Ecology and Evolution, p. 792-799, 2016
- DOI for Increasing the power of genome wide association studies in natural populations using repeated measures - evaluation and implementation
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Part of Evolution, p. 2226-2238, 2016
Hybrid Dysfunction Expressed as Elevated Metabolic Rate in Male Ficedula Flycatchers
Part of PLOS ONE, 2016
- DOI for Hybrid Dysfunction Expressed as Elevated Metabolic Rate in Male Ficedula Flycatchers
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Part of PLOS ONE, 2016
Song discrimination by nestling collared flycatchers during early development
Part of Biology Letters, 2016
- DOI for Song discrimination by nestling collared flycatchers during early development
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Females discriminate against heterospecific sperm in a natural hybrid zone
Part of Evolution, p. 1844-1855, 2016
Species replacement reduces community participation in avian antipredator groups
Part of Behavioral Ecology, p. 1499-1506, 2016
Evolutionary analysis of the female-specific avian W chromosome
Part of Nature Communications, 2015
- DOI for Evolutionary analysis of the female-specific avian W chromosome
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Part of Proceedings of the Royal Society of London. Biological Sciences, 2015
- DOI for Genome-wide association mapping in a wild avian population identifies a link between genetic and phenotypic variation in a life-history trait
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Part of Genome Research, p. 1656-1665, 2015
- DOI for Linked selection and recombination rate variation drive the evolution of the genomic landscape of differentiation across the speciation continuum of Ficedula flycatchers
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Part of Molecular Ecology Resources, p. 1248-1260, 2014
- DOI for Estimation of linkage disequilibrium and interspecific gene flow in Ficedula flycatchers by a newly developed 50k single-nucleotide polymorphism array
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Part of Nature Communications, p. 5448, 2014
Part of Evolution, p. 2793-2803, 2014
Part of PLOS ONE, 2014
- DOI for Malaria-infected female collared flycatchers (Ficedula albicollis) do not pay the cost of late breeding
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Part of Environmental Science and Pollution Research, p. 3304-3317, 2014
Relative performance of hybrid nestlings in Ficedula flycatchers: a translocation experiment
Part of Ecology and Evolution, p. 356-364, 2013
Does aggression and explorative behaviour decrease with lost warning colouration?
Part of Biological Journal of the Linnean Society, p. 116-126, 2013
Part of Molecular Ecology, p. 4591-4601, 2013
Low fertility of wild hybrid male flycatchers despite recent divergence
Part of Biology Letters, 2013
Part of Hormones and Behavior, p. 813-822, 2013
Sex chromosome linked genetic variance and the evolution of sexual dimorphism of quantitative traits
Part of Evolution, p. 609-619, 2013
Part of Journal of Avian Biology, p. 111-120, 2013
The genomic landscape of species divergence in Ficedula flycatchers
Part of Nature, p. 756-760, 2012
The role of male contest competition over mates in speciation
Part of Current Zoology, p. 493-509, 2012
Part of Evolution, p. 1167-1179, 2012
Environment-dependent selection on mate choice in a natural population of birds
Part of Ecology Letters, p. 611-618, 2012
Part of American Naturalist, p. 132-136, 2012
Part of Evolutionary Ecology, p. 927-942, 2012
Part of Journal of Animal Ecology, p. 926-936, 2012
Let's talk turkey: immune competence in domestic and wild fowl
Part of Heredity, p. 103-104, 2011
Part of PLOS ONE, 2011
Part of Evolution, p. 1271-1282, 2011
Geographical Variation in Egg Mass and Egg Content in a Passerine Bird
Part of PLOS ONE, 2011
A guide to the genomics of ecological speciation in natural animal populations
Part of Ecology Letters, p. 9-18, 2011
Geographical trends in the yolk carotenoid composition of the pied flycatcher (Ficedula hypoleuca)
Part of Oecologia, p. 277-287, 2011
Learning the hard way: imprinting can enhance enforced shifts in habitat choice
Part of International Journal of Ecology, 2011
- DOI for Learning the hard way: imprinting can enhance enforced shifts in habitat choice
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Part of Journal of Animal Ecology, p. 1227-1235, 2011
Part of Molecular Ecology, p. 3394-3405, 2010
Part of Evolution, p. 3461-3475, 2010
Temporal differences in food abundance promote coexistence between two congeneric passerines
Part of Oecologia, p. 873-884, 2010
Life-history divergence facilitates regional coexistence of competing Ficedula flycatchers
Part of Ecology, p. 1948-1957, 2009
Life-history divergence facilitates regional coexistence of competing Ficedula flycatchers.
Part of Ecology, p. 1948-1957, 2009
Part of Evolution, p. 1731-1739, 2009
Part of Journal of Avian Biology, p. 352-357, 2009
Natural and sexual selection against hybrid flycatchers
Part of Proceedings of the Royal Society of London. Biological Sciences, p. 735-744, 2008
Part of Genetics, p. 1479-1495, 2008
Does migration of hybrids contribute to post-zygotic isolation in flycatchers?
Part of Proceedings of the Royal Society of London. Biological Sciences, p. 707-712, 2007
Species divergence in offspring begging intensity: Difference in need or manipulation of parents?
Part of Proceedings of the Royal Society of London. Biological Sciences, p. 1003-1008, 2007
Direct benefits and costs for hybridising Ficedula flycatchers
Part of Journal of Evolutionary Biology, p. 854-864, 2007
Sex chromosome-linked species recognition and evolution of reproductive isolation in flycatchers
Part of Science, p. 95-97, 2007
Part of PLoS ONE, 2007
Song similarity predicts hybridization in flycatchers
Part of Journal of Evolutionary Biology, p. 1202-1209, 2006
Levels of linkage disequilibrium in a wild bird population
Part of Biology Letters, p. 435-438, 2006
Part of Genetics, p. 377-386, 2006
Part of American Naturalist, p. 297-302, 2006
Testing the genetics underlying the co-evolution of mate choice and ornament in the wild
Part of Nature, p. 84-86, 2006
Part of Biology Letters, p. 68-71, 2005
Flycatcher song in allopatry and sympatry: convergence, divergence and reinforcement
Part of Journal of Evolutionary Biology, p. 227-237, 2004
Female collared flycatchers learn to prefer maöes with an artificial npvel ornament
Part of Behavioral Ecology, p. 543-548, 2004
Flyctacher song in allopatry and sympatry - convergence, divergence and reinforcement
Part of Journal of Evolutionary Biology, p. 227-237, 2004
The role of phenotypic plasticity in driving genetic evolution
Part of Proceedings of the Royal Society Biological Sciences, p. 1433-1440, 2003
Male ornamentation, timing of breeding, and cost of polygyny in the collared flycatcher
Part of Behavioral Ecology, p. 68-73, 2003
Articles, review/survey
Adaptive coloration in pied flycatchers (Ficedula hypoleuca) - The devil is in the detail
Part of Ecology and Evolution, p. 1501-1525, 2021
- DOI for Adaptive coloration in pied flycatchers (Ficedula hypoleuca) - The devil is in the detail
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Climate adaptation and speciation: particular focus on reproductive barriers in Ficedula flycatchers
Part of Evolutionary Applications, p. 119-134, 2015
- DOI for Climate adaptation and speciation: particular focus on reproductive barriers in Ficedula flycatchers
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A blueprint for vocal learning: auditory predispositions from brains genomes
Part of Biology Letters, 2015
Part of Molecular Ecology, p. 4035-4058, 2014
- DOI for 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
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Adaptive colouration in amphibians
Part of Seminars in Cell and Developmental Biology, p. 553-561, 2013
Speciation in Ficedula flycatchers
Part of Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society of London. Biological Sciences, p. 1841-1852, 2010
Speciation through evolution of sex-linked genes
Part of Heredity, p. 4-15, 2009
Chapters in book
Part of Genotype-by-Environment Interactions and Sexual Selection, John Wiley & Sons, 2014
Manuscripts (preprints)
2022
- DOI for Single-Cell Transcriptomics reveals relaxed evolutionary constraint of spermatogenesis in two passerine birds as compared to mammals
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Sex-specific decrease in longevity following malaria infection in a natural bird population
Age and malaria infection affect nest defence behaviours in collared flycatchers
Malaria infected birds produce higher levels of vector-attracting compounds
The genomic basis of hybrid male sterility in Ficedula flycatchers
Hybrid viability across life-stages in a natural contact zone