• Contrasting genomic consequences of anthropogenic reintroduction and natural recolonization in high-arctic wild reindeer 

      Burnett, Hamish Andrew; Bieker, Vanessa Carina; Le Moullec, Mathilde; Peeters, Bart; Rosvold, Jørgen; Pedersen, Åshild Ønvik; Dalén, Love; Loe, Leif Egil; Jensen, Henrik; Hansen, Brage Bremset; Martin, Michael David (Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2023)
      Anthropogenic reintroduction can supplement natural recolonization in reestablishing a species' distribution and abundance. However, both reintroductions and recolonizations can give rise to founder effects that reduce ...
    • Editorial: Herbarium Collection-Based Plant Evolutionary Genetics and Genomics 

      Bakker, Freek T.; Bieker, Vanessa Carina; Martin, Michael David (Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2020)
      Over the past centuries and especially the last decades, herbarium collections world-wide have amassed an estimated 350 million specimens of plants and fungi, deposited in 3,400 herbaria world-wide (Soltis, 2017). Many of ...
    • Implications and future prospects for evolutionary analyses of DNA in historical herbarium collections 

      Bieker, Vanessa Carina; Martin, Michael David (Journal article, 2018)
      Global herbarium collections house a vast number of plant specimens stretching back over centuries. They include rare and extinct species, important historical collections, and valuable type specimens that could help to ...
    • 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 ...
    • Low Prevalence of Lactase Persistence in Bronze Age Europe Indicates Ongoing Strong Selection over the Last 3,000 Years 

      Burger, Joachim; Link, Vivian; Blöcher, Jens; Schulz, Anna; Sell, Christian; Pochon, Zoé; Diekmann, Yoan; Zegarac, Aleksandra; Hofmanová, Zuzana; Winkelbach, Laura; Reyna-Blanco, Carlos S.; Bieker, Vanessa Carina; Orschiedt, Jörg; Brinker, Ute; Scheu, Amelie; Leuenberger, Christoph; Bertino, Thomas S.; Bollongino, Ruth; Lidke, Gundula; Stefanovic, Sofija; Jantzen, Detlef; Kaiser, Elke; Terberger, Thomas; Thomas, Mark G.; Veeramah, Krishna R.; Wegmann, Daniel (Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2020)
      Lactase persistence (LP), the continued expression of lactase into adulthood, is the most strongly selected single gene trait over the last 10,000 years in multiple human populations. It has been posited that the primary ...
    • 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 ...
    • Multiple paths toward repeated phenotypic evolution in the spiny-leg adaptive radiation (Tetragnatha; Hawai'i) 

      Cerca, José; Cotoras, Darko; Santander, Cindy G.; Bieker, Vanessa Carina; Hutchins, Leke; Morin-Lagos, Jaime; Prada, Carlos; Kennedy, Susan M.; Krehenwinkel, Henrik; Rominger, Andrew J.; Meier, Joana Isabel; Dimitrov, Dimitar; Struck, Torsten H; Gillespie, Rosemary G (Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2023)
      The repeated evolution of phenotypes provides clear evidence for the role of natural selection in driving evolutionary change. However, the evolutionary origin of repeated phenotypes can be difficult to disentangle as it ...
    • 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 ...
    • 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 ...
    • Travel Tales of a Worldwide Weed: Genomic Signatures of Plantago major L. Reveal Distinct Genotypic Groups With Links to Colonial Trade Routes 

      Iwanycki Ahlstrand, Natalie; Gopalakrishnan, Shyam; Vieira, Filipe G.; Bieker, Vanessa Carina; Meudt, Heidi M.; Dunbar-Co, Stephanie; Rothfels, Carl J.; Martinez-Swatson, Karen Agatha; Maldonado, Carla; Hassemer, Gustavo; Shipunov, Alexey; Bowers, M. Deane; Gardner, Elliot; Xu, Maonian; Ghorbani, Abdolbaset; Amano, Makoto; Grace, Olwen M.; Pringle, James S.; Bishop, Madonna; Manzanilla, Vincent; Cotrim, Helena; Blaney, Sean; Zubov, Dimitri; Choi, Hong-Keun; Yesil, Yeter; Bennett, Bruce; Vimolmangkang, Sornkanok; El-Seedi, Hesham R.; Staub, Peter O.; Li, Zhu; Boldbaatar, Delgerbat; Hislop, Michael; Caddy, Laura J.; Muasya, A. Muthama; Saslis-Lagoudakis, C. Haris; Gilbert, M. Thomas P.; Zerega, Nyree J. C.; Rønsted, Nina (Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2022)
      Retracing pathways of historical species introductions is fundamental to understanding the factors involved in the successful colonization and spread, centuries after a species’ establishment in an introduced range. Numerous ...
    • 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 ...