Anssi Laurila
Professor at Department of Ecology and Genetics; Animal Ecology
- Telephone:
- +46 18 471 64 93
- E-mail:
- Anssi.Laurila@ebc.uu.se
- Visiting address:
- Evolutionsbiologiskt centrum (EBC)
Norbyvägen 18 D - Postal address:
- Norbyvägen 18 D
752 36 UPPSALA
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Short presentation
I am an evolutionary ecologist working at the interface between ecology and evolutionary biology on factors allowing and maintaining phenotypic and genetic variation. Much of my research focuses on the roles of phenotypic plasticity and local adaptation in explaining phenotypic and genetic variation along environmental gradients using both phenotypic and genomic methods.
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Publications
Selection of publications
Antimicrobial peptide and sequence variation along a latitudinal gradient in two anurans
Part of BMC Genetics, 2020
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Chytrid fungus dynamics and infections associated with movement distances in a red-listed amphibian
Part of Journal of Zoology, p. 164-174, 2020
- DOI for Chytrid fungus dynamics and infections associated with movement distances in a red-listed amphibian
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Part of Oecologia, p. 1013-1022, 2020
- DOI for Parental effects influence life history traits and covary with an environmental cline in common frog populations
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Gene Flow Limits Adaptation along Steep Environmental Gradients
Part of American Naturalist, 2020
Part of Diseases of Aquatic Organisms, p. 33-42, 2019
- DOI for Urban environment and reservoir host species are associated with Batrachochytrium dendrobatidis infection prevalence in the common toad
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Part of Molecular Ecology, p. 2996-3011, 2019
Part of Journal of Evolutionary Biology, p. 356-368, 2019
Part of Molecular Ecology, p. 2786-2801, 2019
Part of Journal of Evolutionary Biology, p. 1216-1226, 2018
Part of PLOS ONE, 2018
- DOI for Effects of host species and environmental factors on the prevalence of Batrachochytrium dendrobatidis in northern Europe
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Recent Asian origin of chytrid fungi causing global amphibian declines
Part of Science, p. 621-+, 2018
Part of BMC Evolutionary Biology, 2017
- DOI for Drift, selection, or migration?: Processes affecting genetic differentiation and variation along a latitudinal gradient in an amphibian
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Part of Ecology and Evolution, p. 3149-3156, 2017
- DOI for Maximum thermal tolerance trades off with chronic tolerance of high temperature in contrasting thermal populations of Radix balthica
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Part of Journal of Animal Ecology, p. 128-135, 2017
Compensating for delayed hatching reduces offspring immune response and increases life-history costs
Part of Oikos, p. 565-571, 2017
Developmental plasticity increases at the northern range margin in a warm-dependent amphibian
Part of Evolutionary Applications, p. 471-478, 2016
- DOI for Developmental plasticity increases at the northern range margin in a warm-dependent amphibian
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Divergence of gastropod life history in contrasting thermal environments in a geothermal lake
Part of Journal of Evolutionary Biology, p. 2043-2053, 2016
Part of Journal of Evolutionary Biology, p. 1701-1712, 2016
Part of Ecology, p. 2470-2478, 2016
Part of Behavioral Ecology and Sociobiology, p. 237-246, 2016
Part of Molecular Ecology, p. 4564-4579, 2016
Warm vegetarians?: Heat waves and diet shifts in tadpoles
Part of Ecology, p. 2964-2974, 2016
Part of Oecologia, p. 617-628, 2015
Part of Evolution, p. 2210-2226, 2015
Part of Oecologia, p. 131-137, 2014
Transgenerational phenotypic plasticity links breeding phenology with offspring life-history
Part of Ecology, p. 2715-2722, 2014
Rapid evolution of constitutive and inducible defenses against an invasive predator
Part of Ecology, p. 1520-1530, 2014
Part of Proceedings of the Royal Society of London. Biological Sciences, 2014
Larval life history and anti-predator strategies are affected by breeding phenology in an amphibian
Part of Oecologia, p. 873-881, 2013
Part of Oecologia, p. 115-127, 2013
Part of Molecular Ecology, p. 1322-1340, 2013
Part of Evolution, p. 867-881, 2012
Geographic variation in corticosterone response to chronic predator stress in tadpoles
Part of Journal of Evolutionary Biology, p. 1066-1076, 2012
Part of Molecular Ecology, p. 2963-2976, 2012
Part of Journal of Animal Ecology, p. 1233-1243, 2012
Part of Oecologia, p. 641-649, 2012
Recent publications
A chromosome-level genome assembly of the European green toad (Bufotes viridis)
Part of G3, 2025
- DOI for A chromosome-level genome assembly of the European green toad (Bufotes viridis)
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Part of Scientific Reports, 2024
- DOI for Batrachochytrium dendrobatidis strain affects transcriptomic response in liver but not skin in latitudinal populations of the common toad (Bufo bufo)
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Association between the skin microbiome and MHC class II diversity in an amphibian
Part of Molecular Ecology, 2024
- DOI for Association between the skin microbiome and MHC class II diversity in an amphibian
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Part of Oecologia, p. 71-81, 2024
- DOI for Body size mediates latitudinal population differences in the response to chytrid fungus infection in two amphibians
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Part of Aquaculture, 2024
- DOI for Acclimatizing laboratory-reared hatchling cod (Gadus morhua) to salinity conditions in the Baltic Sea
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All publications
Articles in journal
A chromosome-level genome assembly of the European green toad (Bufotes viridis)
Part of G3, 2025
- DOI for A chromosome-level genome assembly of the European green toad (Bufotes viridis)
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Part of Scientific Reports, 2024
- DOI for Batrachochytrium dendrobatidis strain affects transcriptomic response in liver but not skin in latitudinal populations of the common toad (Bufo bufo)
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Association between the skin microbiome and MHC class II diversity in an amphibian
Part of Molecular Ecology, 2024
- DOI for Association between the skin microbiome and MHC class II diversity in an amphibian
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Part of Oecologia, p. 71-81, 2024
- DOI for Body size mediates latitudinal population differences in the response to chytrid fungus infection in two amphibians
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Part of Aquaculture, 2024
- DOI for Acclimatizing laboratory-reared hatchling cod (Gadus morhua) to salinity conditions in the Baltic Sea
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Part of Conservation Genetics, p. 139-149, 2022
- DOI for Low neutral and immunogenetic diversity in northern fringe populations of the green toad Bufotes viridis: implications for conservation
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Part of BMC Ecology and Evolution, 2022
- DOI for Context dependent variation in corticosterone and phenotypic divergence of Rana arvalis populations along an acidification gradient
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Part of Frontiers in Ecology and Evolution, 2022
- DOI for Major Histocompatibility Complex Variation and Haplotype Associated Survival in Response to Experimental Infection of Two Bd-GPL Strains Along a Latitudinal Gradient
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Part of Journal of Comparative Physiology. B, Biochemical, Systemic, and Environmental Physiology, p. 669-682, 2022
- DOI for Short-term responses of Rana arvalis tadpoles to pH and predator stress: adaptive divergence in behavioural and physiological plasticity?
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Part of Heredity, p. 656-667, 2021
- DOI for The effects of drift and selection on latitudinal genetic variation in Scandinavian common toads (Bufo bufo) following postglacial recolonisation
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Limits to compensatory responses to altered phenology in amphibian larvae
Part of Oikos, p. 231-239, 2021
- DOI for Limits to compensatory responses to altered phenology in amphibian larvae
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Small-scale population divergence is driven by local larval environment in a temperate amphibian
Part of Human Heredity, p. 279-292, 2021
Antimicrobial peptide and sequence variation along a latitudinal gradient in two anurans
Part of BMC Genetics, 2020
- DOI for Antimicrobial peptide and sequence variation along a latitudinal gradient in two anurans
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Chytrid fungus dynamics and infections associated with movement distances in a red-listed amphibian
Part of Journal of Zoology, p. 164-174, 2020
- DOI for Chytrid fungus dynamics and infections associated with movement distances in a red-listed amphibian
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Part of Diseases of Aquatic Organisms, p. 209-218, 2020
Part of Oecologia, p. 1013-1022, 2020
- DOI for Parental effects influence life history traits and covary with an environmental cline in common frog populations
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Gene Flow Limits Adaptation along Steep Environmental Gradients
Part of American Naturalist, 2020
Heat waves trigger swift changes in the diet and life-history of a freshwater snail
Part of Hydrobiologia, p. 999-1011, 2020
Part of Diseases of Aquatic Organisms, p. 33-42, 2019
- DOI for Urban environment and reservoir host species are associated with Batrachochytrium dendrobatidis infection prevalence in the common toad
- Download full text (pdf) of Urban environment and reservoir host species are associated with Batrachochytrium dendrobatidis infection prevalence in the common toad
Part of Molecular Ecology, p. 2996-3011, 2019
Part of Journal of Evolutionary Biology, p. 356-368, 2019
Part of Molecular Ecology, p. 2786-2801, 2019
Part of Journal of Evolutionary Biology, p. 1216-1226, 2018
Part of Scientific Reports, 2018
- DOI for Development and worldwide use of non-lethal, and minimal population-level impact, protocols for the isolation of amphibian chytrid fungi
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Part of PLOS ONE, 2018
- DOI for Effects of host species and environmental factors on the prevalence of Batrachochytrium dendrobatidis in northern Europe
- Download full text (pdf) of Effects of host species and environmental factors on the prevalence of Batrachochytrium dendrobatidis in northern Europe
Part of Immunogenetics, p. 477-484, 2018
- DOI for Signatures of historical selection on MHC reveal different selection patterns in the moor frog (Rana arvalis)
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Recent Asian origin of chytrid fungi causing global amphibian declines
Part of Science, p. 621-+, 2018
Part of BMC Evolutionary Biology, 2017
- DOI for Drift, selection, or migration?: Processes affecting genetic differentiation and variation along a latitudinal gradient in an amphibian
- Download full text (pdf) of Drift, selection, or migration?: Processes affecting genetic differentiation and variation along a latitudinal gradient in an amphibian
Part of Ecology and Evolution, p. 3149-3156, 2017
- DOI for Maximum thermal tolerance trades off with chronic tolerance of high temperature in contrasting thermal populations of Radix balthica
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Part of PLOS ONE, 2017
- DOI for Can heat waves change the trophic role of the world's most invasive crayfish?: Diet shifts in Procambarus clarkii
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Experience buffers extrinsic mortality in a group-living bird species
Part of Oikos, p. 1258-1268, 2017
Part of Journal of Animal Ecology, p. 128-135, 2017
Compensating for delayed hatching reduces offspring immune response and increases life-history costs
Part of Oikos, p. 565-571, 2017
Developmental plasticity increases at the northern range margin in a warm-dependent amphibian
Part of Evolutionary Applications, p. 471-478, 2016
- DOI for Developmental plasticity increases at the northern range margin in a warm-dependent amphibian
- Download full text (pdf) of Developmental plasticity increases at the northern range margin in a warm-dependent amphibian
Divergence of gastropod life history in contrasting thermal environments in a geothermal lake
Part of Journal of Evolutionary Biology, p. 2043-2053, 2016
Part of Journal of Evolutionary Biology, p. 1701-1712, 2016
Part of Ecology, p. 2470-2478, 2016
Part of Behavioral Ecology and Sociobiology, p. 237-246, 2016
Part of Molecular Ecology, p. 4564-4579, 2016
Warm vegetarians?: Heat waves and diet shifts in tadpoles
Part of Ecology, p. 2964-2974, 2016
Part of Scientific Reports, 2015
- DOI for Acid stress mediated adaptive divergence in ion channel function during embryogenesis in Rana arvalis
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Part of Oecologia, p. 617-628, 2015
Part of Ecology and Evolution, p. 1491-1503, 2014
- DOI for Morphological and life-history responses of anurans to predation by an invasive crayfish: an integrative approach
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Part of PLOS ONE, 2014
- DOI for AFLPs and Mitochondrial Haplotypes Reveal Local Adaptation to Extreme Thermal Environments in a Freshwater Gastropod
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Part of Oecologia, p. 131-137, 2014
Transgenerational phenotypic plasticity links breeding phenology with offspring life-history
Part of Ecology, p. 2715-2722, 2014
Rapid evolution of constitutive and inducible defenses against an invasive predator
Part of Ecology, p. 1520-1530, 2014
Part of Proceedings of the Royal Society of London. Biological Sciences, 2014
Part of Ecology and Evolution, p. 1931-1941, 2013
Larval life history and anti-predator strategies are affected by breeding phenology in an amphibian
Part of Oecologia, p. 873-881, 2013
Part of Oecologia, p. 115-127, 2013
Reversibility of predator-induced plasticity and its effect at a life-history switch point
Part of Oikos, p. 44-52, 2012
Part of Evolution, p. 867-881, 2012
Geographic variation in corticosterone response to chronic predator stress in tadpoles
Part of Journal of Evolutionary Biology, p. 1066-1076, 2012
Part of Molecular Ecology, p. 2963-2976, 2012
Part of Polar Biology, p. 1505-1513, 2012
Part of Journal of Animal Ecology, p. 1233-1243, 2012
Part of Oecologia, p. 641-649, 2012
Part of European Journal of Wildlife Research, p. 897-907, 2012
Effects of the disinfectant Virkon S on early life-stages of the moor frog (Rana arvalis)
Part of Amphibia-Reptilia, p. 349-353, 2012
Part of Journal of Evolutionary Biology, p. 1587-1599, 2012
Adaptive divergence of the moor frog (Rana arvalis) along an acidification gradient
Part of BMC Evolutionary Biology, p. 366, 2011
- DOI for Adaptive divergence of the moor frog (Rana arvalis) along an acidification gradient
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Part of Journal of Evolutionary Biology, p. 1380-1385, 2011
Part of Journal of Zoology, p. 85-92, 2011
Costs and benefits of defences induced by predators differing in dangerousness
Part of Journal of Evolutionary Biology, p. 1007-1019, 2011
Part of Journal of Zoology, p. 46-55, 2011
Part of Canadian Journal of Zoology, p. 1249-1255, 2011
First-generation linkage map for the common frog Rana temporaria reveals sex-linkage group
Part of Heredity, p. 530-536, 2011
Part of Journal of Evolutionary Biology, p. 59-70, 2011
Part of BMC Evolutionary Biology, p. 317, 2010
Part of Molecular Ecology, p. 716-731, 2010
Part of Climate Research (CR), p. 31-39, 2010
Are high-latitude individuals superior competitors?: A test with Rana temporaria tadpoles
Part of Evolutionary Ecology, p. 115-131, 2010
Developmental threshold model challenged by temperature
Part of Evolutionary Ecology Research, p. 821-829, 2010
Nonlethal injury caused by an invasive alien predator and its consequences for an anuran tadpole
Part of Basic and Applied Ecology, p. 645-654, 2010
Compensating for delayed hatching across consecutive life-history stages in an amphibian
Part of Oikos, p. 980-987, 2010
Predation- and competition-mediated brain plasticity in Rana temporaria tadpoles
Part of Journal of Evolutionary Biology, p. 2300-2308, 2010
Part of Oikos, p. 1814-1822, 2010
Climatic adaptation in an isolated and genetically impoverished amphibian population
Part of Ecography, p. 730-737, 2010
Part of Conservation Genetics, p. 173-181, 2010
Part of Conservation Genetics, p. 489-496, 2010
Part of Molecular Ecology, p. 2229-2240, 2010
Part of Journal of Thermal Biology, p. 49-54, 2009
Part of Biological Journal of the Linnean Society, p. 217-224, 2009
Microgeographic variation in temperature-induced plasticity in an isolated amphibian metapopulation
Part of Evolutionary Ecology, p. 979-991, 2009
Part of Canadian Journal of Zoology, p. 581-588, 2009
Part of Journal of Zoology, p. 267-274, 2009
Body temperature, size, nuptial colouration and mating success in male Moor Frogs (Rana arvalis)
Part of Amphibia-Reptilia, p. 37-43, 2009
Short-term dominance: stability and consequences for subsequent growth
Part of Journal of Fish Biology, p. 2374-2385, 2009
Part of Journal of Evolutionary Biology, p. 2267-2277, 2009
Antipredator defenses along a latitudinal gradient in Rana temporaria
Part of Ecology, p. 1399-1413, 2008
The bold and the variable: Fish with high heterozygosity act recklessly in the vicinity of predators
Part of Ethology, p. 7-15, 2008
Part of Canadian Journal of Zoology, p. 45-50, 2008
Geographic variation in maternal investment: Acidity affects egg size and fecundity in Rana arvalis
Part of Ecology, p. 2553-2562, 2008
Part of Journal of Experimental Biology, p. 1999-2004, 2008
Adaptive plasticity in stressful environments: Acidity constrains inducible defences in Rana arvalis
Part of Evolutionary Ecology Research, p. 447-458, 2007
Part of Canadian Journal of Zoology, p. 832-838, 2007
Part of Ecology, p. 1641-1646, 2007
Part of Behavioral Ecology and Sociobiology, p. 657-665, 2006
Population divergence in growth rate and antipredator defences in Rana arvalis.
Part of Oecologia, p. 585-595, 2006
Do common frogs (Rana temporaria) follow Bergmann’s rule?
Part of Evolutionary Ecology Research, p. 717-731, 2005
Part of Oecologia, p. 546-553, 2005
Does testis weight decline towards the Subarctic? A case study on the common frog, Rana temporaria
Part of Naturwissenschaften, p. 188-192, 2005
Part of Journal of Evolutionary Biology, 2005
Common pesticide increases costs of antipredator defenses in Rana temporaria tadpoles
Part of Environmental science and technology, p. 6079-6085, 2005
Part of Genetical research, p. 161-170, 2005
Part of Molecular ecology, p. 311-323, 2005
Local adaptation and genetics of acid-stress tolerance in the moor frog, Rana arvalis
Part of Conservation Genetics, p. 513-527, 2004
Population differentiation in G matrix structure due to natural selection in Rana temporaria
Part of Evolution, p. 2013-2020, 2004
High degree of population subdivision in a widespread amphibian
Part of Molecular ecology, p. 2631-2644, 2004
Part of Journal of Evolutionary Biology, p. 1132-1140, 2004
Part of Oikos, p. 90-99, 2004
Heads or tails? Variation in tadpole body proportions in response to temperature and food stress.
Part of Evolutionaru Ecology Research, p. 727-738, 2004
Are the effects of kinship modified by environmental conditions in Rana temporaria tadpoles?
Part of Annales Zoologici Fennici, p. 413-420, 2004
Part of Oecologia, p. 548-554, 2003
Part of Journal of Evolutionary Biology, p. 996-1005, 2003
Part of Molecular Ecology, p. 1963-1978, 2003
Effects of ultraviolet-B radiation on behaviour and growth of three species of amphibian larvae
Part of Chemosphere, p. 197-204, 2003
Effects of ultraviolet-B radiation on metamorphic traits in the common frog Rana temporaria
Part of Chemosphere, p. 57-62, 2003
Geographic variation in acid stress tolerance of the moor frog, Rana arvalis. I. Local adaptation
Part of Evolution, p. 352-362, 2003
Part of Evolution, p. 363-371, 2003
Part of Oikos, p. 155-163, 2003
Does jelly envelope protect the common frog Rana temporaria embryos from UV-B radiation?
Part of Herpetologica, p. 293-300, 2003
Aggresiveness is associated with genetic diversity in landlocked salmon (Salmo salar)
Part of Molecular Ecology, p. 2399-2407, 2003
Sire coloration influences ofspring survival under predation risk in the moorfrog
Part of Journal of Evolutionary Biology, p. 1288-1295, 2003
Part of Biological Journal of the Linnean Society, p. 61-70, 2002
Local adaptation of gastropod life history to contrasting thermal environments in a geothermal lake
Articles, review/survey
Part of Evolution, p. 2210-2226, 2015
Part of Molecular Ecology, p. 1322-1340, 2013
Part of Molecular Ecology, p. 1582-1600, 2011
Chapters in book
Part of Advances in Ecological Research, Vol 47, p. 81-176, Elsevier, 2012