• Large haploblocks underlie rapid adaptation in the invasive weed Ambrosia artemisiifolia 

      Battlay, Paul; Wilson, Jonathan; Bieker, Vanessa Carina; Lee, Christopher; Prapas, Diana; Petersen, Bent; Craig, Sam; van Boheemen, Lotte; Scalone, Romain; de Silva, Nissanka; Sharma, Amit; Konstantinovic, Bojan; Nurkowski, Kristin; Rieseberg, Loren H.; Connallon, Tim; Martin, Michael David; Hodgins, Kathryn A. (Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2023)
      Adaptation is the central feature and leading explanation for the evolutionary diversification of life. Adaptation is also notoriously difficult to study in nature, owing to its complexity and logistically prohibitive ...
    • Metagenomic analysis of historical herbarium specimens reveals a postmortem microbial community 

      Bieker, Vanessa Carina; Sánchez Barreiro, Fatima; Rasmussen, Jacob Agerbo; Brunier, Marie; Wales, Nathan; Martin, Michael David (Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2020)
      Advances in DNA extraction and next-generation sequencing have made a vast number of historical herbarium specimens available for genomic investigation. These specimens contain not only genomic information from the individual ...
    • Microbiome “Inception”: an Intestinal Cestode Shapes a Hierarchy of Microbial Communities Nested within the Host 

      Brealey, Jaelle; Lecaudey, Laurene Alicia; Kodama, Miyako; Rasmussen, Jacob A.; Sveier, Harald; Dheilly, Nolwenn M.; Martin, Michael David; Limborg, Morten Tønsberg (Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2022)
    • On the origin and evolution of RNA editing in metazoans 

      Zhang, Pei; Zhu, Yuanzhen; Guo, Qunfei; Li, Ji; Zhan, Xiaoyu; Yu, Hao; Xie, Nianxia; Tan, Huishuang; Lundholm, Nina; Garcia-Cuetos, Lydia; Martin, Michael David; Antó Subirats, Meritxell; Su, Yi-Hsien; Ruiz-Trillo, Iñaki; Martindale, Mark Q.; Yu, Jr-Kai; Gilbert, M. Thomas P.; Zhang, Guojie; Li, Qiye (Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2023)
      Extensive adenosine-to-inosine (A-to-I) editing of nuclear-transcribed mRNAs is the hallmark of metazoan transcriptional regulation. Here, by profiling the RNA editomes of 22 species that cover major groups of Holozoa, we ...
    • A paleogenomic investigation of overharvest implications in an endemic wild reindeer subspecies 

      Kellner, Fabian Laszlo; Le Moullec, Mathilde; Ellegaard, Martin Rene; Rosvold, Jørgen; Peeters, Bart; Burnett, Hamish Andrew; Pedersen, Åshild Ønvik; Brealey, Jaelle C.; Dussex, Nicolas; Bieker, Vanessa Carina; Hansen, Brage Bremset; Martin, Michael David (Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2024)
      Overharvest can severely reduce the abundance and distribution of a species and thereby impact its genetic diversity and threaten its future viability. Overharvest remains an ongoing issue for Arctic mammals, which due to ...
    • Phylogenetic Diversity of Arctic Vertebrate Herbivores 

      Skjelbred, Ina Åsnes (Master thesis, 2017)
      Understanding spatial diversity patterns, and factors shaping these patterns, is crucial for conservation planning, and is particularly important in areas undergoing severe climatic change. Traditionally, spatial diversity ...
    • Population genomics of an outbreak of the potato late blight pathogen, Phytophthora infestans, reveals both clonality and high genotypic diversity 

      Maurice, Sundy Ursula Mary Jane; Montes, Melanie; Nielsen, Bent J.; Bødker, Lars; Martin, Michael David; Jønck, Carina; Kjøller, Rasmus; Rosendahl, Søren (Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2019)
      An outbreak of the potato late blight pathogen Phytophthora infestans in Denmark was characterized in order to resolve the population structure and determine to what extent sexual reproduction was occurring. A standard set ...
    • Runs of homozygosity in killer whale genomes provide a global record of demographic histories 

      Foote, Andrew; Hooper, Rebecca; Alexander, Alana; Baird, Robin; Baker, Scott; Ballance, Lisa; Barlow, Jay; Brownlow, Andrew; Collins, Tim; Constantine, Rochelle; Rosa, Luciano Dalla; Davison, Nicholas J.; Durban, John; Esteban, Ruth; Excoffier, Laurent; Forney, Karin A.; Gerrodette, Tim; Gilbert, Marcus Thomas Pius; Guinet, Christophe; Hanson, M. Bradley; Li, Songhai; Martin, Sarah; Martin, Michael David; Robertson, Kelly M.; Samarra, Filipa I.P.; de Stephanis, Renaud; Tavares, Sara B.; Tixier, Paul; Totterdell, John A.; Wade, Paul; Wolf, Jochen B.W.; Fan, Guangyi; Zhang, Yaolei; Morin, Phillip A. (Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2021)
      Runs of homozygosity (ROH) occur when offspring inherit haplotypes that are identical by descent from each parent. Length distributions of ROH are informative about population history; specifically, the probability of ...
    • Spatial patterns of phylogenetic and species diversity of fennoscandian vascular plants in protected areas 

      Matten, Damaris Marina; Mienna, Ida Marielle; Bieker, Vanessa Carina; Mishler, Brent D; Moen, Victoria Stornes; Nygård, Malene Østreng; Vuorinen, Katariina Elsa M; Bendiksby, Mika; Martin, Michael David; Speed, James David Mervyn (Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2023)
      Protected areas are one of the main strategic means for conserving biodiversity. Yet, the design of protected areas usually neglects phylogenetic diversity, an important diversity measure. In this paper we assess the ...
    • Spatiotemporal monitoring of the rare northern dragonhead (Dracocephalum ruyschiana, Lamiaceae) — SNP genotyping and environmental niche modeling herbarium specimens 

      Nygaard, Malene; Kopatz, Alexander; Speed, James David Mervyn; Martin, Michael David; Prestø, Tommy; Kleven, Oddmund; Bendiksby, Mika (Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2022)
      The species we have studied the spatiotemporal genetic change in the northern dragonhead, a plant species that has experienced a drastic population decline and habitat loss in Europe. We have added a temporal perspective ...
    • Trophic interactions and abiotic factors drive functional and phylogenetic structure of vertebrate herbivore communities across the Arctic tundra biome 

      Speed, James David Mervyn; Skjelbred, Ina Åsnes; Barrio, Isabel C.; Martin, Michael David; Berteaux, Dominique; Bueno, Guillermo; Christie, Katie; Forbes, Bruce C.; Forbey, Jennifer; Fortin, Daniel; Grytnes, John-Arvid; Hoset, Katrine Skamfer; Lecomte, Nicolas; Marteinsdottir, Bryndis; Mosbacher, Jesper Bruun; Pedersen, Åshild Ø.; Ravolainen, Virve; Rees, Eileen C.; Skarin, Anna; Sokolova, Natalya; Thornhill, Andrew H; Tombre, Ingunn; Soininen, Eeva M (Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2019)
      Communities are assembled from species that evolve or colonise a given geographic region, and persist in the face of abiotic conditions and interactions with other species. The evolutionary and colonisation histories of ...
    • Uncovering the genomic basis of an extraordinary plant invasion 

      Bieker, Vanessa Carina; Battlay, Paul; Petersen, Bent; Sun, Xin; Wilson, Jonathan; Brealey, Jaelle C.; Bretagnolle, François; Nurkowski, Kristin; Lee, Chris; Sánchez Barreiro, Fatima; Owens, Gregory; Lee, Jacqueline; Kellner, Fabian Laszlo; van Boheeman, Lotte; Gopalakrishnan, Shyam; Gaudeul, Myriam; Mueller-Schaerer, Heinz; Lommen, Suzanne; Karrer, Gerhard; Chauvel, Bruno; Sun, Yan; Konstantinovic, Bojan; Dalén, Love; Poczai, Péter; Rieseberg, Loren H.; Gilbert, Marcus Thomas Pius; Hodgins, Kathryn A.; Martin, Michael David (Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2022)
      Invasive species are a key driver of the global biodiversity crisis, but the drivers of invasiveness, including the role of pathogens, remain debated. We investigated the genomic basis of invasiveness in Ambrosia artemisiifolia ...
    • Using historical herbarium specimens to elucidate the evolutionary genomics of plant invasion 

      Bieker, Vanessa Carina (Doctoral theses at NTNU;2021:77, Doctoral thesis, 2021)
      The world’s herbarium collections contain a vast number of specimens that were collected up to 400 years ago. Due to recent advances in DNA extraction and sequencing, these specimens are now readily available for use in ...