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
- Gene Flow Limits Adaptation along Steep Environmental Gradients (2020)
- Antimicrobial peptide and sequence variation along a latitudinal gradient in two anurans (2020)
- Chytrid fungus dynamics and infections associated with movement distances in a red-listed amphibian (2020)
- Parental effects influence life history traits and covary with an environmental cline in common frog populations (2020)
- Urban environment and reservoir host species are associated with Batrachochytrium dendrobatidis infection prevalence in the common toad (2019)
- Post-glacial colonization routes coincide with a life-history breakpoint along a latitudinal gradient (2019)
- Genetic basis of amphibian larval development along a latitudinal gradient (2019)
- Latitudinal divergence in a widespread amphibian: Contrasting patterns of neutral and adaptive genomic variation (2019)
- Effects of host species and environmental factors on the prevalence of Batrachochytrium dendrobatidis in northern Europe (2018)
- Interacting effects of predation risk and resource level on escape speed of amphibian Larvae along a latitudinal gradient (2018)
- Recent Asian origin of chytrid fungi causing global amphibian declines (2018)
- Drift, selection, or migration? (2017)
- Maximum thermal tolerance trades off with chronic tolerance of high temperature in contrasting thermal populations of Radix balthica (2017)
- Intraspecific priority effects modify compensatory responses to changes in hatching phenology in an amphibian (2017)
- Compensating for delayed hatching reduces offspring immune response and increases life-history costs (2017)
- Warm vegetarians? (2016)
- Is one defence enough? (2016)
- Divergence of gastropod life history in contrasting thermal environments in a geothermal lake (2016)
- Genetic divergence and isolation by thermal environment in geothermal populations of an aquatic invertebrate (2016)
- Developmental plasticity increases at the northern range margin in a warm-dependent amphibian (2016)
- Transgenerational effects and impact of compensatory responses to changes in breeding phenology on antipredator defenses (2016)
- Molecular phenotyping of maternally mediated parallel adaptive divergence within Rana arvalis and Rana temporaria (2016)
- Local divergence of thermal reaction norms among amphibian populations is affected by pond temperature variation (2015)
- Mechanistic basis of adaptive maternal effects (2015)
- Multifarious selection through environmental change (2014)
- Rapid evolution of constitutive and inducible defenses against an invasive predator (2014)
- Compensatory growth strategies are affected by the strength of environmental time constraints in anuran larvae (2014)
- Transgenerational phenotypic plasticity links breeding phenology with offspring life-history (2014)
- Do anuran larvae respond behaviourally to chemical cues from an invasive crayfish predator? (2013)
- Larval life history and anti-predator strategies are affected by breeding phenology in an amphibian (2013)
- Fine-grained adaptive divergence in an amphibian (2013)
- Time constraints and flexibility of growth strategies (2012)
- Geographic variation in corticosterone response to chronic predator stress in tadpoles (2012)
- Adaptive Divergence in Moor Frog (Rana Arvalis) Populations Along an Acidification Gradient (2012)
- Seasonality determines patterns of growth and age structure over a geographic gradient in an ectothermic vertebrate (2012)
- Strong divergence in trait means but not in plasticity across hatchery and wild populations of sea-run brown trout Salmo trutta (2012)
Recent publications
- Batrachochytrium dendrobatidis strain affects transcriptomic response in liver but not skin in latitudinal populations of the common toad (Bufo bufo) (2024)
- Association between the skin microbiome and MHC class II diversity in an amphibian (2024)
- Body size mediates latitudinal population differences in the response to chytrid fungus infection in two amphibians (2024)
- Acclimatizing laboratory-reared hatchling cod (Gadus morhua) to salinity conditions in the Baltic Sea (2024)
- Major Histocompatibility Complex Variation and Haplotype Associated Survival in Response to Experimental Infection of Two Bd-GPL Strains Along a Latitudinal Gradient (2022)
All publications
Articles
- Batrachochytrium dendrobatidis strain affects transcriptomic response in liver but not skin in latitudinal populations of the common toad (Bufo bufo) (2024)
- Association between the skin microbiome and MHC class II diversity in an amphibian (2024)
- Body size mediates latitudinal population differences in the response to chytrid fungus infection in two amphibians (2024)
- Acclimatizing laboratory-reared hatchling cod (Gadus morhua) to salinity conditions in the Baltic Sea (2024)
- Major Histocompatibility Complex Variation and Haplotype Associated Survival in Response to Experimental Infection of Two Bd-GPL Strains Along a Latitudinal Gradient (2022)
- Low neutral and immunogenetic diversity in northern fringe populations of the green toad Bufotes viridis (2022)
- Context dependent variation in corticosterone and phenotypic divergence of Rana arvalis populations along an acidification gradient (2022)
- Short-term responses of Rana arvalis tadpoles to pH and predator stress (2022)
- Limits to compensatory responses to altered phenology in amphibian larvae (2021)
- Small-scale population divergence is driven by local larval environment in a temperate amphibian (2021)
- The effects of drift and selection on latitudinal genetic variation in Scandinavian common toads (Bufo bufo) following postglacial recolonisation (2021)
- Gene Flow Limits Adaptation along Steep Environmental Gradients (2020)
- Heat waves trigger swift changes in the diet and life-history of a freshwater snail (2020)
- Antimicrobial peptide and sequence variation along a latitudinal gradient in two anurans (2020)
- Chytrid fungus dynamics and infections associated with movement distances in a red-listed amphibian (2020)
- Occurrence of Batrachochytrium dendrobatidis in Sweden (2020)
- Parental effects influence life history traits and covary with an environmental cline in common frog populations (2020)
- Urban environment and reservoir host species are associated with Batrachochytrium dendrobatidis infection prevalence in the common toad (2019)
- Post-glacial colonization routes coincide with a life-history breakpoint along a latitudinal gradient (2019)
- Genetic basis of amphibian larval development along a latitudinal gradient (2019)
- Latitudinal divergence in a widespread amphibian: Contrasting patterns of neutral and adaptive genomic variation (2019)
- Signatures of historical selection on MHC reveal different selection patterns in the moor frog (Rana arvalis) (2018)
- Development and worldwide use of non-lethal, and minimal population-level impact, protocols for the isolation of amphibian chytrid fungi (2018)
- Effects of host species and environmental factors on the prevalence of Batrachochytrium dendrobatidis in northern Europe (2018)
- Interacting effects of predation risk and resource level on escape speed of amphibian Larvae along a latitudinal gradient (2018)
- Recent Asian origin of chytrid fungi causing global amphibian declines (2018)
- Can heat waves change the trophic role of the world's most invasive crayfish? (2017)
- Drift, selection, or migration? (2017)
- Experience buffers extrinsic mortality in a group-living bird species (2017)
- Maximum thermal tolerance trades off with chronic tolerance of high temperature in contrasting thermal populations of Radix balthica (2017)
- Intraspecific priority effects modify compensatory responses to changes in hatching phenology in an amphibian (2017)
- Compensating for delayed hatching reduces offspring immune response and increases life-history costs (2017)
- Warm vegetarians? (2016)
- Is one defence enough? (2016)
- Divergence of gastropod life history in contrasting thermal environments in a geothermal lake (2016)
- Genetic divergence and isolation by thermal environment in geothermal populations of an aquatic invertebrate (2016)
- Developmental plasticity increases at the northern range margin in a warm-dependent amphibian (2016)
- Transgenerational effects and impact of compensatory responses to changes in breeding phenology on antipredator defenses (2016)
- Molecular phenotyping of maternally mediated parallel adaptive divergence within Rana arvalis and Rana temporaria (2016)
- Local divergence of thermal reaction norms among amphibian populations is affected by pond temperature variation (2015)
- Acid stress mediated adaptive divergence in ion channel function during embryogenesis in Rana arvalis (2015)
- Mechanistic basis of adaptive maternal effects (2015)
- Multifarious selection through environmental change (2014)
- Rapid evolution of constitutive and inducible defenses against an invasive predator (2014)
- Morphological and life-history responses of anurans to predation by an invasive crayfish (2014)
- Compensatory growth strategies are affected by the strength of environmental time constraints in anuran larvae (2014)
- AFLPs and Mitochondrial Haplotypes Reveal Local Adaptation to Extreme Thermal Environments in a Freshwater Gastropod (2014)
- Transgenerational phenotypic plasticity links breeding phenology with offspring life-history (2014)
- Do anuran larvae respond behaviourally to chemical cues from an invasive crayfish predator? (2013)
- Larval life history and anti-predator strategies are affected by breeding phenology in an amphibian (2013)
- Fine-grained adaptive divergence in an amphibian (2013)
- Adaptive divergence in body size overrides the effects of plasticity across natural habitats in the brown trout (2013)
- Time constraints and flexibility of growth strategies (2012)
- Geographic variation in corticosterone response to chronic predator stress in tadpoles (2012)
- The quantitative genetic basis of adaptive divergence in the moor frog (Rana arvalis) and its implications for gene flow (2012)
- Effects of the disinfectant Virkon S on early life-stages of the moor frog (Rana arvalis) (2012)
- Adaptive Divergence in Moor Frog (Rana Arvalis) Populations Along an Acidification Gradient (2012)
- Seasonality determines patterns of growth and age structure over a geographic gradient in an ectothermic vertebrate (2012)
- Reversibility of predator-induced plasticity and its effect at a life-history switch point (2012)
- Sex differences in age structure, growth rate and body size of common frogs Rana temporaria in the subarctic (2012)
- Strong divergence in trait means but not in plasticity across hatchery and wild populations of sea-run brown trout Salmo trutta (2012)
- Differences in body mass, health status and genetic variation between insular and mainland brown hares (Lepus europaeus) in Sweden (2012)
- Allen's rule revisited (2011)
- First-generation linkage map for the common frog Rana temporaria reveals sex-linkage group (2011)
- Is growth hormone expression correlated with variation in growth rate along a latitudinal gradient in Rana temporaria? (2011)
- Effects of predator exposure on Hsp70 expression and survival in tadpoles of the Common Frog (Rana temporaria) (2011)
- Adaptive divergence of the moor frog (Rana arvalis) along an acidification gradient (2011)
- Costs and benefits of defences induced by predators differing in dangerousness (2011)
- Genetic analysis of differentiation among breeding ponds reveals a candidate gene for local adaptation in Rana arvalis (2011)
- Population divergence of life history traits in the endangered green toad (2011)
- Brain plasticity over the metamorphic boundary (2011)
- Increasing melanism along a latitudinal gradient in a widespread amphibian (2010)
- Predation- and competition-mediated brain plasticity in Rana temporaria tadpoles (2010)
- Interactions between the information content of different chemical cues affect induced defences in tadpoles (2010)
- Developmental threshold model challenged by temperature (2010)
- Are high-latitude individuals superior competitors? (2010)
- Nonlethal injury caused by an invasive alien predator and its consequences for an anuran tadpole (2010)
- Compensating for delayed hatching across consecutive life-history stages in an amphibian (2010)
- Climatic adaptation in an isolated and genetically impoverished amphibian population (2010)
- Local selection modifies phenotypic divergence among Rana temporaria populations in the presence of gene flow (2010)
- The effects of selection, drift and genetic variation on life-history trait divergence among insular populations of natterjack toad, Bufo calamita (2010)
- Fitness costs associated with low genetic variation are reduced in a harsher environment in amphibian island populations (2010)
- Genetic structure in peripheral populations of the natterjack toad, Bufo calamita, as revealed by AFLP (2010)
- Contrasting effects of environmental factors during larval stage on morphological plasticity in post-metamorphic frogs (2010)
- Body temperature, size, nuptial colouration and mating success in male Moor Frogs (Rana arvalis) (2009)
- Physiological variation along a geographical gradient (2009)
- Microgeographic variation in the effects of larval temperature environment on juvenile morphology and locomotion in the pool frog (2009)
- Microgeographic variation in temperature-induced plasticity in an isolated amphibian metapopulation (2009)
- Intraspecific variation of temperature-induced effects on metamorphosis in the pool frog (Rana lessonae) (2009)
- The interaction of multiple environmental stressors affects adaptation to a novel habitat in the natterjack toad Bufo calamita (2009)
- Complex patterns of geographic variation in heat tolerance and Hsp70 expression levels in the common frog Rana temporaria (2009)
- Short-term dominance (2009)
- Antipredator defenses along a latitudinal gradient in Rana temporaria (2008)
- Population origin, development and temperature of development affect the amounts of HSP70, HSP90 and the putative hypoxia-inducible factor in the tadpoles of the common frog Rana temporaria (2008)
- Growing with kin does not bring benefits to tadpoles in a genetically impoverished amphibian population (2008)
- Geographic variation in maternal investment (2008)
- The bold and the variable (2008)
- Maternally determined adaptation to acidity in Rana arvalis (2007)
- Adaptive plasticity in stressful environments (2007)
- Flexible defense strategies (2007)
- Population divergence in growth rate and antipredator defences in Rana arvalis. (2006)
- Do dominants have higher heterozygosity? Social status and genetic variation in brown trout, Salmo trutta (2006)
- Does testis weight decline towards the Subarctic? A case study on the common frog, Rana temporaria (2005)
- Quantitative genetics of larval life-history traits in Rana temporaria in different environmental conditions (2005)
- Do common frogs (Rana temporaria) follow Bergmann’s rule? (2005)
- Environmental and population dependency of genetic variability-fitness correlations in Rana temporaria. (2005)
- Proximate causes of adaptive growth rates: growth efficiency variation among latitudinal populations of Rana temporaria. (2005)
- Maternal investment in egg size: environment- and population-specific effects on offspring performance (2005)
- Common pesticide increases costs of antipredator defenses in Rana temporaria tadpoles (2005)
- Population differentiation in G matrix structure due to natural selection in Rana temporaria (2004)
- Temporal variation in predation risk (2004)
- Heads or tails? Variation in tadpole body proportions in response to temperature and food stress. (2004)
- Variation in the degree and costs of adaptive phenotypic plasticity among Rana temporaria populations (2004)
- Local adaptation and genetics of acid-stress tolerance in the moor frog, Rana arvalis (2004)
- Are the effects of kinship modified by environmental conditions in Rana temporaria tadpoles? (2004)
- High degree of population subdivision in a widespread amphibian (2004)
- Timing an ontogenetic niche shift: responses of emerging salmon alevins to chemical cues from predators and competitors (2003)
- Latitudinal and temperature-dependent variation in embryonic development and growth in Rana temporaria (2003)
- Latitudinal countergradient variation in the common frog (Rana temporaria) developmental rates (2003)
- Effects of ultraviolet-B radiation on behaviour and growth of three species of amphibian larvae (2003)
- Effects of ultraviolet-B radiation on metamorphic traits in the common frog Rana temporaria (2003)
- Latitudinal divergence of common frog (Rana temporaria) life-history traits by natural selection (2003)
- Geographic variation in acid stress tolerance of the moor frog, Rana arvalis. II. Adaptive maternal effects (2003)
- Does jelly envelope protect the common frog Rana temporaria embryos from UV-B radiation? (2003)
- Geographic variation in acid stress tolerance of the moor frog, Rana arvalis. I. Local adaptation (2003)
- Sire coloration influences ofspring survival under predation risk in the moorfrog (2003)
- Aggresiveness is associated with genetic diversity in landlocked salmon (Salmo salar) (2003)
- Maternal and genetic contributions to geographical variation in Rana temporaria larval life-history traits (2002)
- Local adaptation of gastropod life history to contrasting thermal environments in a geothermal lake
- Body size mediates latitudinal population differences in response to Bd infection in two amphibian species
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