Leif Andersson
Professor at Department of Medical Biochemistry and Microbiology; Genetics and Genomics; Leif Andersson
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- Leif.Andersson@imbim.uu.se
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- BMC
Husargatan 3
752 37 UPPSALA - Postal address:
- Box 582
751 23 UPPSALA
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Publications
Recent publications
Part of Genome Biology, 2025
- DOI for Regulatory and disruptive variants in the CLCN2 gene are associated with modified skin color pattern phenotypes in the corn snake
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Skin regional specification and higher-order HoxC regulation
Part of Science Advances, 2025
- DOI for Skin regional specification and higher-order HoxC regulation
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Part of Scientific Reports, 2025
- DOI for Population genomic analysis identifies the complex structural variation at the fibromelanosis (FM) locus in chicken
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Part of Nature Communications, 2024
- DOI for An intronic copy number variation in Syntaxin 17 determines speed of greying and melanoma incidence in Grey horses
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Part of Molecular biology and evolution, 2024
- DOI for Conservation of Affinity Rather Than Sequence Underlies a Dynamic Evolution of the Motif-Mediated p53/MDM2 Interaction in Ray-Finned Fishes
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Part of Genome Biology, 2025
- DOI for Regulatory and disruptive variants in the CLCN2 gene are associated with modified skin color pattern phenotypes in the corn snake
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Skin regional specification and higher-order HoxC regulation
Part of Science Advances, 2025
- DOI for Skin regional specification and higher-order HoxC regulation
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Part of Scientific Reports, 2025
- DOI for Population genomic analysis identifies the complex structural variation at the fibromelanosis (FM) locus in chicken
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Part of Nature Communications, 2024
- DOI for An intronic copy number variation in Syntaxin 17 determines speed of greying and melanoma incidence in Grey horses
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Part of Molecular biology and evolution, 2024
- DOI for Conservation of Affinity Rather Than Sequence Underlies a Dynamic Evolution of the Motif-Mediated p53/MDM2 Interaction in Ray-Finned Fishes
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Part of Marine Ecology Progress Series, p. 227-240, 2024
- DOI for Discriminating populations of Atlantic herring mixing in the Norwegian Sea feeding ground using single nucleotide polymorphisms (SNPs)
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Selection against domestication alleles in introduced rabbit populations
Part of Nature Ecology & Evolution, 2024
Part of Genome Biology and Evolution, 2024
- DOI for Limited Parallelism in Genetic Adaptation to Brackish Water Bodies in European Sprat and Atlantic Herring
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Part of Poultry Science, 2024
- DOI for Research Note: Phenotypic trends for the multigenerational advanced intercross of the Virginia body weight lines of chickens
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Part of Evolutionary Applications, 2024
- DOI for Adaptation to seasonal reproduction and environment-associated factors drive temporal and spatial differentiation in northwest Atlantic herring despite gene flow
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Part of BMC Genomics, 2024
- DOI for Copy number variation and elevated genetic diversity at immune trait loci in Atlantic and Pacific herring
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Evolution of fast-growing piscivorous herring in the young Baltic Sea
Part of Nature Communications, 2024
- DOI for Evolution of fast-growing piscivorous herring in the young Baltic Sea
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Part of Evolutionary Applications, 2024
- DOI for Genetic Stock Identification Reveals Mismatches Between Management Areas and Population Genetic Structure in a Migratory Pelagic Fish
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Part of Molecular Therapy Nucleic Acids, 2024
- DOI for Targeting ZC3H11A elicits immunogenic cancer cell death through augmentation of antigen presentation and interferon response
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The origin and maintenance of supergenes contributing to ecological adaptation in Atlantic herring
Part of Nature Communications, 2024
- DOI for The origin and maintenance of supergenes contributing to ecological adaptation in Atlantic herring
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Ablation of ZC3H11A causes early embryonic lethality and dysregulation of metabolic processes
Part of Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America, 2023
- DOI for Ablation of ZC3H11A causes early embryonic lethality and dysregulation of metabolic processes
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Part of Journal of Biological Chemistry, 2023
- DOI for The RNA-binding protein ZC3H11A interacts with the nuclear poly(A)-binding protein PABPN1 and alters polyadenylation of viral transcripts
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Community-wide genome sequencing reveals 30 years of Darwin's finch evolution
Part of Science, p. 1427-+, 2023
Part of Molecular biology and evolution, 2023
- DOI for Low Mutation Load in a Supergene Underpinning Alternative Male Mating Strategies in Ruff (Calidris pugnax)
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Part of Evolutionary Applications, p. 1201-1219, 2023
- DOI for The genomic basis and environmental correlates of local adaptation in the Atlantic horse mackerel (Trachurus trachurus)
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Part of Genome Biology and Evolution, 2023
- DOI for A Long-Standing Hybrid Population Between Pacific and Atlantic Herring in a Subarctic Fjord of Norway
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Part of Systematic Biology, 2023
- DOI for Introgression Underlies Phylogenetic Uncertainty But Not Parallel Plumage Evolution in a Recent Songbird Radiation
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Part of ICES Journal of Marine Science, p. 173-184, 2023
- DOI for Mixed-stock analysis of Atlantic herring (Clupea harengus): a tool for identifying management units and complex migration dynamics
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A frame-shift mutation in COMTD1 is associated with impaired pheomelanin pigmentation in chicken
Part of PLOS Genetics, 2023
- DOI for A frame-shift mutation in COMTD1 is associated with impaired pheomelanin pigmentation in chicken
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Spatiotemporal variations in retrovirus-host interactions among Darwin’s finches
Part of Nature Communications, 2022
- DOI for Spatiotemporal variations in retrovirus-host interactions among Darwin’s finches
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Rapid adaptive radiation of Darwin's finches depends on ancestral genetic modules
Part of Science Advances, 2022
- DOI for Rapid adaptive radiation of Darwin's finches depends on ancestral genetic modules
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Part of G3, 2022
- DOI for Hmga2 deficiency is associated with allometric growth retardation, infertility, and behavioral abnormalities in mice
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Part of Royal Society Open Science, 2022
- DOI for A baseline for the genetic stock identification of Atlantic herring, Clupea harengus, in ICES Divisions 6.a, 7.b-c
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ZC3H11A loss of function enhances NF-κB signaling through defective IκBα protein expression
Part of Frontiers in Immunology, 2022
- DOI for ZC3H11A loss of function enhances NF-κB signaling through defective IκBα protein expression
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Gregor Johann Mendel and the development of modern evolutionary biology
Part of Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America, 2022
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Part of eNeuro, 2022
- DOI for Hop Mice Display Synchronous Hindlimb Locomotion and a Ventrally Fused Lumbar Spinal Cord Caused by a Point Mutation in Ttc26
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A multispecies BCO2 beak color polymorphism in the Darwin's finch radiation
Part of Current Biology, p. 5597-56040000000, 2021
- DOI for A multispecies BCO2 beak color polymorphism in the Darwin's finch radiation
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The crest phenotype in domestic chicken is caused by a 197 bp duplication in the intron of HOXC10
Part of G3, 2021
- DOI for The crest phenotype in domestic chicken is caused by a 197 bp duplication in the intron of HOXC10
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Asymmetric introgression reveals the genetic architecture of a plumage trait
Part of Nature Communications, 2021
- DOI for Asymmetric introgression reveals the genetic architecture of a plumage trait
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Part of Communications Biology, 2021
- DOI for Functional differences between TSHR alleles associate with variation in spawning season in Atlantic herring
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Porcine ZBED6 regulates growth of skeletal muscle and internal organs via multiple targets
Part of PLOS Genetics, 2021
- DOI for Porcine ZBED6 regulates growth of skeletal muscle and internal organs via multiple targets
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A loss-of-function mutation in RORB disrupts saltatorial locomotion in rabbits
Part of PLOS Genetics, 2021
- DOI for A loss-of-function mutation in RORB disrupts saltatorial locomotion in rabbits
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Ecological adaptation in European eels is based on phenotypic plasticity
Part of Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America, 2021
- DOI for Ecological adaptation in European eels is based on phenotypic plasticity
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Part of Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America, 2021
- DOI for Cis-acting mutation affecting GJA5 transcription is underlying the Melanotic within-feather pigmentation pattern in chickens
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Part of ICES Journal of Marine Science, p. 694-703, 2021
Part of Molecular biology and evolution, p. 4238-4251, 2021
- DOI for A Chromosome-Level Assembly of Blunt Snout Bream (Megalobrama amblycephala) Genome Reveals an Expansion of Olfactory Receptor Genes in Freshwater Fish
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Part of Diabetologia, p. 2292-2305, 2021
- DOI for ZBED6 counteracts high-fat diet-induced glucose intolerance by maintaining beta cell area and reducing excess mitochondrial activation
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Part of Pigment Cell & Melanoma Research, p. 1015-1028, 2021
- DOI for The feather pattern autosomal barring in chicken is strongly associated with segregation at the MC1R locus
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ZBED6 regulates Igf2 expression partially through its regulation of miR483 expression
Part of Scientific Reports, 2021
- DOI for ZBED6 regulates Igf2 expression partially through its regulation of miR483 expression
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Part of Biomolecules, 2020
- DOI for Structure and Characterization of Phosphoglucomutase 5 from Atlantic and Baltic Herring: An Inactive Enzyme with Intact Substrate Binding
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Part of Molecular biology and evolution, p. 2477-2486, 2020
Reconstruction of the birth of a male sex chromosome present in Atlantic herring
Part of Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America, p. 24359-24368, 2020
- DOI for Reconstruction of the birth of a male sex chromosome present in Atlantic herring
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The importance of the ZBED6-IGF2 axis for metabolic regulation in mouse myoblast cells
Part of The FASEB Journal, p. 10250-10266, 2020
- DOI for The importance of the ZBED6-IGF2 axis for metabolic regulation in mouse myoblast cells
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Part of Genome Biology and Evolution, p. 1918-1928, 2020
Female-biased gene flow between two species of Darwin’s finches
Part of Nature Ecology & Evolution, p. 979-986, 2020
Part of Marine Ecology Progress Series, p. 141-152, 2020
Part of eLIFE, 2020
- DOI for Ecological adaptation in Atlantic herring is associated with large shifts in allele frequencies at hundreds of loci
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Part of Frontiers in Marine Science, 2020
- DOI for Comparison of Otolith Microstructure of Herring Larvae and Sibling Adults Reared Under Identical Early Life Conditions
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Part of International Journal of Molecular Sciences, 2019
- DOI for Avian Expression Patterns and Genomic Mapping Implicate Leptin in Digestion and TNF in Immunity, Suggesting That Their Interacting Adipokine Role Has Been Acquired Only in Mammals
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Part of Ecology and Evolution, p. 4888-4896, 2019
- DOI for A comparison of the association between large haplotype blocks under selection and the presence/absence of inversions
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Part of Mobile DNA, 2019
- DOI for Characterization of the endogenous retrovirus insertion in CYP19A1 associated with henny feathering in chicken
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Recurrent convergent evolution at amino acid residue 261 in fish rhodopsin
Part of Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America, p. 18473-18478, 2019
- DOI for Recurrent convergent evolution at amino acid residue 261 in fish rhodopsin
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Part of Genome Research, p. 1919-1928, 2019
- DOI for A chromosome-level assembly of the Atlantic herring: detection of a supergene and other signals of selection
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Exploring a Pool-seq-only approach for gaining population genomic insights in nonmodel species
Part of Ecology and Evolution, p. 11448-11463, 2019
- DOI for Exploring a Pool-seq-only approach for gaining population genomic insights in nonmodel species
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Genetics of adaptation in modern chicken
Part of PLOS Genetics, 2019
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Identification and validation of genetic variants predictive of gait in standardbred horses
Part of PLOS Genetics, 2019
- DOI for Identification and validation of genetic variants predictive of gait in standardbred horses
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Part of The Journal of Poultry Science, p. 245-252, 2019
- DOI for Glucose Tolerance and Plasma Non-Esterified Fatty Acid Levels in Chickens Selected for Low Body Weight, Red Junglefowl, and their Reciprocal Cross
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Genetic origin and salinity history influence the reproductive success of Atlantic herring
Part of Marine Ecology Progress Series, p. 81-94, 2019
- DOI for Genetic origin and salinity history influence the reproductive success of Atlantic herring
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Part of Pigment Cell & Melanoma Research, p. 381-390, 2019
Part of Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America, p. 5633-5642, 2019
Part of The FASEB Journal, p. 88-100, 2019
Elevated proportions of deleterious genetic variation in domestic animals and plants
Part of Genome Biology and Evolution, p. 276-290, 2018
- DOI for Elevated proportions of deleterious genetic variation in domestic animals and plants
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Part of BMC Genomics, 2018
- DOI for Comparative omics and feeding manipulations in chicken indicate a shift of the endocrine role of visceral fat towards reproduction
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Fisher's quantitative genetic model and the molecular genetics of multifactorial traits
Part of Journal of Animal Breeding and Genetics, p. 391-392, 2018
A genomic map of clinal variation across the European rabbit hybrid zone
Part of Molecular Ecology, p. 1457-1478, 2018
Genomic signatures of 60 years of bidirectional selection for 8-week body weight in chickens
Part of Poultry Science, p. 781-790, 2018
- DOI for Genomic signatures of 60 years of bidirectional selection for 8-week body weight in chickens
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Part of PLOS ONE, 2018
- DOI for Genetic factors have a major effect on growth, number of vertebrae and otolith shape in Atlantic herring (Clupea harengus)
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Rapid hybrid speciation in Darwin's finches
Part of Science, p. 224-228, 2018
Part of Journal of Animal Breeding and Genetics, p. 300-310, 2018
Changes in brain architecture are consistent with altered fear processing in domestic rabbits
Part of Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America, p. 7380-7385, 2018
Part of Physiological Reports, 2018
- DOI for A potential regulatory region near the EDN3 gene may control both harness racing performance and coat color variation in horses
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Part of Journal of Applied Genetics, p. 193-201, 2018
Multiple nuclear-replicating viruses require the stress-induced protein ZC3H11A for efficient growth
Part of Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America, 2018
Part of Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America, 2018
- DOI for The ZBED6-IGF2 axis has a major effect on growth of skeletal muscle and internal organs in placental mammals
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Association analysis of KIT, MITF, and PAX3 variants with white markings in Spanish horses
Part of Animal Genetics, p. 349-352, 2017
Part of Genetics, p. 955-965, 2017
Part of Genome Research, p. 1004-1015, 2017
- DOI for Gene flow, ancient polymorphism, and ecological adaptation shape the genomic landscape of divergence among Darwin's finches
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Mapping of leptin and its syntenic genes to chicken chromosome 1p
Part of BMC Genetics, 2017
- DOI for Mapping of leptin and its syntenic genes to chicken chromosome 1p
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Part of Animal Genetics, p. 694-697, 2017
Part of PLOS Genetics, 2017
- DOI for The evolution of Sex-linked barring alleles in chickens involves both regulatory and coding changes in CDKN2A
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Part of Genome Biology, 2017
- DOI for Correspondence on Lovell et al.: identification of chicken genes previously assumed to be evolutionarily lost
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Moderate nucleotide diversity in the Atlantic herring is associated with a low mutation rate
Part of eLIFE, 2017
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The evolutionary history of the DMRT3 'Gait keeper' haplotype
Part of Animal Genetics, p. 551-559, 2017
Part of PLOS ONE, 2017
- DOI for Lack of significant associations with early career performance suggest no link between the DMRT3 "Gait Keeper" mutation and precocity in Coldblooded trotters
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Genetic Basis for Red Coloration in Birds
Part of Integrative and Comparative Biology, 2017
Y Chromosome Uncovers the Recent Oriental Origin of Modern Stallions
Part of Current Biology, p. 2029-2035, 2017
Part of Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America, 2017
Part of Current Biology, 2016
Adaptive radiation of Darwin's finches revisited using whole genome sequencing
Part of Bioessays, p. 14-20, 2016
Part of General and Comparative Endocrinology, p. 69-78, 2016
Genetic Basis for Red Coloration in Birds
Part of Current Biology, p. 1427-1434, 2016
Part of Nature Genetics, p. 84-88, 2016
- DOI for Structural genomic changes underlie alternative reproductive strategies in the ruff (Philomachus pugnax)
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Part of G3, p. 2213-2223, 2016
- DOI for Large Deletions at the SHOX Locus in the Pseudoautosomal Region Are Associated with Skeletal Atavism in Shetland Ponies
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Part of Royal Society Open Science, 2016
- DOI for A novel MC1R allele for black coat colour reveals the Polynesian ancestry and hybridization patterns of Hawaiian feral pigs
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The domesticated brain: genetics of brain mass and brain structure in an avian species
Part of Scientific Reports, 2016
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Part of Nature Genetics, p. 152-158, 2016
Duplication of chicken defensin7 gene generated by gene conversion and homologous recombination
Part of Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America, p. 13815-13820, 2016
The genetic basis for ecological adaptation of the Atlantic herring revealed by genome sequencing
Part of eLIFE, 2016
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Part of G3, p. 311-319, 2016
- DOI for Quantitative Trait Locus and Genetical Genomics Analysis Identifies Putatively Causal Genes for Fecundity and Brooding in the Chicken
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Part of Scientific Reports, 2016
- DOI for Knock-down of ZBED6 in insulin-producing cells promotes N-cadherin junctions between beta-cells and neural crest stem cells in vitro
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Part of Endocrinology, p. 737-751, 2016
A beak size locus in Darwin’s finches facilitated character displacement during a drought
Part of Science, p. 470-474, 2016
Part of Diabetologia, 2016
Part of Scientific Reports, 2015
- DOI for Amelanism in the corn snake is associated with the insertion of an LTR-retrotransposon in the OCA2 gene
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Part of PLOS ONE, 2015
- DOI for The Effect of a Mutation in the Thyroid Stimulating Hormone Receptor (TSHR) on Development, Behaviour and TH Levels in Domesticated Chickens
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Evolution of Darwin's finches and their beaks revealed by genome sequencing
Part of Nature, 2015
Part of PLOS Genetics, 2015
- DOI for A Genomic Duplication is Associated with Ectopic Eomesodermin Expression in the Embryonic Chicken Comb and Two Duplex-comb Phenotypes
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Transcriptional modulator ZBED6 affects cell cycle and growth of human colorectal cancer cells
Part of Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America, p. 7743-7748, 2015
Bovine NK-lysin: Copy number variation and functional diversification
Part of Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America, 2015
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Part of PLOS Genetics, 2015
- DOI for Genetic Regulation of Bone Metabolism in the Chicken: Similarities and Differences to Mammalian Systems
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Part of Biology Letters, 2015
- DOI for Mitogenomic analysis of a 50-generation chicken pedigree reveals a rapid rate of mitochondrial evolution and evidence for paternal mtDNA inheritance
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Part of PLOS ONE, 2015
- DOI for Dominant Red Coat Color in Holstein Cattle Is Associated with a Missense Mutation in the Coatomer Protein Complex, Subunit Alpha (COPA) Gene
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Part of Genome Biology, 2015
- DOI for Coordinated international action to accelerate genome-to-phenome with FAANG, the Functional Annotation of Animal Genomes project
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Part of Animal Genetics, p. 418-425, 2015
Part of Livestock Science, p. 33-39, 2015
Part of Animal Genetics, p. 676-682, 2015
- DOI for Microphthalmia-associated transcription factor mutations are associated with white-spotted coat color in swamp buffalo
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When pigs fly, UCP1 makes heat
Part of MOLECULAR METABOLISM, p. 359-362, 2015
The DMRT3 'Gait keeper' mutation affects performance of Nordic and Standardbred trotters
Part of Journal of Animal Science, p. 4279-4286, 2014
Part of Molecular Ecology, p. 2275-2286, 2014
A cis-Regulatory Mutation of PDSS2 Causes Silky-Feather in Chickens
Part of PLOS Genetics, 2014
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Rabbit genome analysis reveals a polygenic basis for phenotypic change during domestication
Part of Science, p. 1074-1079, 2014
Constitutive activation of the ERK pathway in melanoma and skin melanocytes in Grey horses
Part of BMC Cancer, p. 857, 2014
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Establishing the validity of domestication genes using DNA from ancient chickens
Part of Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America, p. 6184-6189, 2014
ZBED6 Modulates the Transcription of Myogenic Genes in Mouse Myoblast Cells
Part of PLOS ONE, 2014
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Establishment and characterization of a primary and a metastatic melanoma cell line from Grey horses
Part of In vitro Cellular & Developmental Biology-Animal, p. 56-65, 2014
Worldwide frequency distribution of the 'Gait keeper' mutation in the DMRT3 gene
Part of Animal Genetics, p. 274-282, 2014
Current perspectives and the future of domestication studies
Part of Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America, p. 6139-6146, 2014
Part of Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America, p. 15997-16002, 2013
Part of Physiological Genomics, p. 367-376, 2013
ZBED Evolution: Repeated Utilization of DNA Transposons as Regulators of Diverse Host Functions
Part of PLOS ONE, 2013
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Molecular consequences of animal breeding
Part of Current Opinion in Genetics and Development, p. 295-301, 2013
Complex Inheritance of Melanoma and Pigmentation of Coat and Skin in Grey Horses
Part of PLOS Genetics, 2013
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Evolutionary genomics: Detecting selection
Part of Nature, p. 325-326, 2013
Recalibrating Equus evolution using the genome sequence of an early Middle Pleistocene horse
Part of Nature, p. 74-+, 2013
Part of Developmental and Comparative Immunology, p. 352-359, 2012
Copy number expansion of the STX17 duplication in melanoma tissue from Grey horses
Part of BMC Genomics, p. 365, 2012
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Part of BMC Genomics, p. 59, 2012
Copy number expansion of the STX17 duplication in melanoma tissue from Grey horses
Part of BMC Genomics, p. 365, 2012
Strong signatures of selection in the domestic pig genome
Part of Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America, p. 19529-19536, 2012
Part of PLOS ONE, 2012
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Part of Reproduction in domestic animals, p. 31-36, 2012
Part of Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America, p. 19345-19350, 2012
Part of PLOS Genetics, 2012
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The Crest Phenotype in Chicken Is Associated with Ectopic Expression of HOXC8 in Cranial Skin
Part of PLOS ONE, 2012
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Part of PLOS Genetics, 2012
- DOI for A Sexual Ornament in Chickens Is Affected by Pleiotropic Alleles at HAO1 and BMP2, Selected during Domestication
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Rethinking dog domestication by integrating genetics, archeology, and biogeography
Part of Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America, p. 8878-8883, 2012
Mutations in DMRT3 affect locomotion in horses and spinal circuit function in mice
Part of Nature, p. 642-646, 2012
Part of Pigment Cell & Melanoma Research, p. 28-36, 2012
Part of Genetical Research, p. 255-266, 2012
Fine mapping and replication of QTL in outbred chicken advanced intercross lines
Part of Genetics Selection Evolution, p. 3, 2011
Characterisation of five candidate genes within the ETEC F4ab/ac candidate region in pigs
Part of BMC Research Notes, p. 225, 2011
The Dark brown plumage color in chickens is caused by an 8.3-kb deletion upstream of SOX10
Part of Pigment Cell & Melanoma Research, p. 268-274, 2011
Part of PLoS Genetics, 2011
Part of Neurogenetics, p. 211-221, 2011
Part of Heredity, p. 712-713, 2011
The receptor locus for Escherichia coli F4ab/F4ac in the pig maps distal to the MUC4-LMLN region
Part of Mammalian Genome, p. 122-129, 2011
Part of PLoS Genetics, 2011
Part of PLoS Genetics, 2011
Inactivation of Pmel Alters Melanosome Shape But Has Only a Subtle Effect on Visible Pigmentation
Part of PLoS Genetics, 2011
Whole genome resequencing reveals loci under selection during chicken domestication
Part of Nature, p. 587-591, 2010
Sex-linked barring in chickens is controlled by the CDKN2A/B tumour suppressor locus
Part of Pigment Cell and Melanoma Research, p. 521-530, 2010
Genotype at the PMEL17 locus affects social and explorative behaviour in chickens
Part of British Poultry Science, p. 170-177, 2010
Genetic analysis of metabolic traits in an intercross between body weight-selected chicken lines
Part of Physiological Genomics, p. 20-22, 2010
The genetic architecture of domestication in the chicken: effects of pleiotropy and linkage
Part of Molecular Ecology, p. 5140-5156, 2010
ZBED6: the birth of a new transcription factor in the common ancestor of placental mammals
Part of Transcription, p. 144-148, 2010
Part of Animal Genetics, p. 21-25, 2010
Part of Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America, p. 7686-7691, 2010
Part of Retrovirology, p. 68, 2009
Genetic analysis of an F2 intercross between two chicken lines divergently selected for body-weight
Part of BMC Genomics, p. 248, 2009
Part of Journal of neuroendocrinology, p. 208-216, 2009
Copy number variation in intron 1 of SOX5 causes the Pea-comb phenotype in chickens
Part of PLoS Genetics, 2009
Part of Genome Research, p. 510-519, 2009
Part of PLoS biology, 2009
Genome Sequence, Comparative Analysis, and Population Genetics of the Domestic Horse
Part of Science, p. 865-867, 2009
Part of PLoS Genetics, 2009
Genetic architecture of tameness in a rat model of animal domestication
Part of Genetics, p. 541-554, 2009
Refined localization of the Escherichia coli F4ab/F4ac receptor locus on pig chromosome 13
Part of Animal Genetics, p. 749-752, 2009
Part of Poultry Science, p. 1162-1166, 2009
Part of Genetica, p. 341-349, 2009
Studying phenotypic evolution in domestic animals: a walk in the footsteps of Charles Darwin.
Part of Cold Spring Harbor Symposia on Quantitative Biology, p. 319-25, 2009
Contrasting mode of evolution at a coat color locus in wild and domestic pigs
Part of PLoS Genetics, 2009
Part of Forskning & Framsteg, p. 40-43, 2008
Part of BMC Genetics, p. 22, 2008
Identification of the yellow skin gene reveals a hybrid origin of the domestic chicken
Part of PLoS Genetics, 2008
Part of Nature Genetics, p. 1004-1009, 2008
The genetic architecture of a female sexual ornament
Part of Evolution, p. 86-98, 2008
Part of BMC Genomics, p. 208, 2007
Part of Nature Genetics, p. 1318-1320, 2007
Part of Journal of Bone and Mineral Research, p. 375-384, 2007
A high-resolution linkage map for the Z chromosome in chicken reveals hot spots for recombination
Part of Cytogenetic and Genome Research, p. 22-29, 2007
Efficient mapping of mendelian traits in dogs through genome-wide association
Part of Nature Genetics, p. 1321-1328, 2007
Gene copy number detection in animal studies
Part of Methods in Molecular Biology, p. 147-156, 2007
Part of Behavior Genetics, p. 399-407, 2007
Mutations in SLC45A2 Cause Plumage Color Variation in Chicken and Japanese Quail
Part of Genetics, p. 867-877, 2007
A missense mutation in PMEL17 is associated with the Silver coat color in the horse
Part of BMC Genetics, p. 46, 2006
Part of BMC Genetics, p. 17, 2006
Identification of Antibodies against HAI-1 and Integrin {alpha}6{beta}4 as
Part of Journal of Histochemistry and Cytochemistry, p. 754-752, 2006
Part of Animal Genetics, p. 156-162, 2006
Part of Diabetes, p. 2051-2058, 2006
Part of Animal Genetics, p. 459-464, 2006
Part of Animal Genetics, p. 529-534, 2006
Epistasis and the release of genetic variation during long-term selection.
Part of Nat Genet, p. 418-20, 2006
Part of BMC Genet, p. 17, 2006
Part of PLoS Genetics, p. 1178-1181, 2006
Part of Physiol Genomics, p. 216-23, 2006
Avian models with spontaneous autoimmune diseases.
Part of Adv Immunol, p. 71-117, 2006
Part of J Biol Chem, p. 7244-52, 2006
Part of Anim Genet, p. 359-62, 2006
Part of Mamm Genome, p. 58-66, 2006
Progress from chicken genetics to the chicken genome.
Part of Poult Sci, p. 2050-60, 2006
Part of Proc Biol Sci, p. 1803-10, 2006
Feather pecking in chickens is genetically related to behavioural and developmental traits
Part of Physiology and Behavior, p. 52-60, 2005
Part of Animal Genetics, p. 288-296, 2005
5'-AMP-activated protein kinase regulates skeletal muscle glycogen content and ergogenics
Part of The FASEB Journal, p. 773-779, 2005
Part of Anim Genet, p. 337-45, 2005
Part of Diabetes, p. 3484-9, 2005
Comparative linkage mapping of the Grey coat colour gene in horses.
Part of Anim Genet, p. 390-5, 2005
Part of Am J Vet Res, p. 1197-201, 2005
Part of Cytogenet Genome Res, p. 79-87, 2005
Part of Diabetologia, p. 2354-64, 2005
Worldwide phylogeography of wild boar reveals multiple centers of pig domestication.
Part of Science, p. 1618-21, 2005
Part of Genet Res, p. 115-25, 2005
Genetic analysis of anal atresia in pigs: evidence for segregation at two main loci.
Part of Mamm Genome, p. 164-70, 2005
Part of Ann N Y Acad Sci, p. 357-9, 2005
Part of Ambio, p. 320-4, 2005
Part of Nature, p. 695-716, 2004
A genetic variation map for chicken with 2.8 million single-nucleotide polymorphisms.
Part of Nature, p. 717-22, 2004
Assignment of fourteen microsatellite markers to the chicken linkage map
Part of Poultry Science, p. 1825-1831, 2004
Part of Journal of Biological Chemistry, p. 38441-38447, 2004
Chicken genomics: Feather-pecking and victim pigmentation
Part of Nature, p. 645-6, 2004
Part of Genetics, p. 1507-18, 2004
High-resolution comparative mapping of pig Chromosome 4, emphasizing the FAT1 region.
Part of Mamm Genome, p. 717-31, 2004
Part of Am J Physiol Endocrinol Metab, 2004
Detection of sequence polymorphisms in red junglefowl and White Leghorn ESTs.
Part of Anim Genet, p. 391-6, 2004
Domestic-animal genomics: deciphering the genetics of complex traits.
Part of Nat Rev Genet, p. 202-12, 2004
Part of Genomics, p. 1021-9, 2004
Part of Genet Res, p. 95-101, 2004
Part of Animal Genetics, p. 264-274, 2003
A Global Search Reveals Epistatic Interaction Between QTL for Early Growth in the Chicken
Part of Genome Research, p. 413-421, 2003
Melanocortin 1-receptor (MC1R) mutations are associated with plumage colour in chicken
Part of Animal Genetics, p. 241-248, 2003
Molecular characterization and mutational screening of the PRKAG3 gene in the horse
Part of Cytogenetic and Genome Research, p. 211-216, 2003
Part of Cytogenet Genome Res, p. 157-62, 2003
Full pedigree quantitative trait locus analysis in commercial pigs using variance components.
Part of J Anim Sci, p. 2155-63, 2003
Part of Cold Spring Harb Symp Quant Biol, p. 179-87, 2003
Part of Behavior Genetics, p. 423-433, 2002
Part of Animal Genetics, p. 155-157, 2002
Part of Yi Chuan Xue Bao, p. 322-325, 2002
A large duplication associated with dominant white color in pigs originated
Part of Mamm Genome, p. 569-77, 2002
Part of Genomics, p. 297-303, 2001
Part of Breast Cancer Research and Treatment, p. 197-210, 2000
Articles, review/survey
How Fish Population Genomics Can Promote Sustainable Fisheries: A Road Map
Part of Annual Review of Animal Biosciences, p. 1-20, 2024
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The role of G protein-coupled receptors and their ligands in animal domestication
Part of Animal Genetics, p. 893-906, 2024
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White horses - non-coding sequences drive premature hair greying and predisposition to melanoma
Part of Upsala Journal of Medical Sciences, 2024
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Part of Frontiers in Marine Science, 2023
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Mutations in Domestic Animals Disrupting or Creating Pigmentation Patterns
Part of Frontiers in Ecology and Evolution, 2020
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Domestic animals as models for biomedical research
Part of Upsala Journal of Medical Sciences, p. 1-11, 2016
How selective sweeps in domestic animals provide new insight into biological mechanisms
Part of Journal of Internal Medicine, p. 1-14, 2012
Part of The Veterinary Journal, p. 155-159, 2011
Chapters in book
Domestic Animals: A Treasure Trove for Comparative Genomics
Part of Comparative Genomics, p. 341-362, Taylor & Francis Group, 2007
Part of Encyclopedia of Genetics, Genomics, Proteomics and Bioinformatics, p. 1171-1183, John Wiley & Sons Ltd. Chichester, 2005
Conference papers
Automatic rat brain segmentation from MRI using statistical shape models and random forest
Part of MEDICAL IMAGING 2019, 2019
Positional identification of structural and regulatory quantative trait nucleotides in livestock
Part of Cold Spring Harbor symposia on quantitative biology., p. 179-187, 2004
Melanocortin Receptor Variants with Phenotypic Effects in Horse, Pig and Chicken
Part of The melanocortin system, p. 313-318, 2003
Manuscripts (preprints)
Multiple viruses rely on the stress-induced protein ZC3H11A for efficient replication
2017
The Plumage Colour Dark brown in Chicken is caused by an 8 kb Deletion Upstream of SOX10
Candidate genes for several bone QTL in chicken revealed by gene expression analysis
A frameshift mutation in COMTD1 specifically dilutes pheomelanin pigmentation in chicken