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2023 [in press] Elina Immonen, Ahmed Sayadi, Biljana Stojković, Uroš Savković, Mirko Đorđević,7 Johanna Liljestrand-Rönn, R. Axel W. Wiberg, Göran Arnqvist. Experimental life history evolution results in sex specific evolution of gene expression in seed beetles. Genome Biology and Evolution XX: XX-XX.
2022
R. Axel W. Wiberg*, Gudrun Viktorin & Lukas Schärer. Gene presence/absence patterns and their relation to differences in mating strategies in Macrostomum. Evolution 76: 3054-3066. PDF
Leonor R. Rodrigues1, Martyna K. Zwoinska1, R. Axel W. Wiberg1, Rhonda R. Snook. (2022). The genetic basis and adult reproductive consequences of developmental thermal plasticity. Journal of Animal Ecology 91: 1119-1134. PDF
Jeremias N. Brand, Gudrun Viktorin, R. Axel W. Wiberg, Christian Beisel & Lukas Schärer. (2022). Large-scale phylogenomics of the genus Macrostomum (Platyhelminthes) reveals cryptic diversity and novel sexual traits. Molecular Phylogenetics and Evolution 166: 107296.PDF
2021
R. Axel W. Wiberg*, Jeremias N. Brand & Lukas Schärer. (2021). Faster rates of molecular sequence evolution in reproduction-related genes and in species with hypodermic sperm morphologies. Molecular Biology and Evolution. 38: 5685-5703. PDF
R. Axel W. Wiberg*, Venera, Tyukmaeva, Anneli Hoikkala, Michael G. Ritchie, & Maaria Kankare. (2021). Cold adaptation drives population genomic divergence in the ecological specialist, Drosophila montana. Molecular Ecology. 30: 3783-3796. PDF
R. Axel W. Wiberg*, Paris Veltsos, Rhonda R. Snook & Michael G. Ritchie. (2021). Experimental evolution confirms signatures of sexual selection in genomic divergence. Evolution Letters. 5: 214-229. PDF
Nicolas Dussex1, Verena E. Kutschera1, R. Axel W. Wiberg1, Darren Parker, Gavin R. Hunt, Russell D. Gray, Kim Rutherford, Hideaki Abe, Rob Fleischer, Christian Rutz, Michael G. Ritchie, Jochen B.W. Wolf, Neil J. Gemmell. (2021). A genome-wide investigation of adaptations related to tool use behaviour in New Caledonian and Hawaiian crows. Molecular Ecology. 30: 973-986. PDF
2020
Rosalind L. Murray, Elizabeth J. Herridge, Rob W. Ness, R. Axel W. Wiberg & Luc F. Bussière. (2020). Competition for access to mates predicts female-specific ornamentation and male investment in relative testis size. Evolution. 74:1741-1754. PDF
Martin Kapun, Maite G. Barrón, Fabian Staubach, Darren J. Obbard, R. Axel W. Wiberg, Jorge Vieira, Clément Goubert, Omar Rota-Stabelli, Maaria Kankare, María Bogaerts-Márquez, Annabelle Haudry, Lena Waidele, Iryna Kozeretska, Elena G. Pasyukova, Volker Loeschcke, Marta Pascual, Cristina P. Vieira, Svitlana Serga, Catherine Montchamp-Moreau, Jessica Abbott, Patricia Gibert, Damiano Porcelli, Nico Posnien, Alejandro Sánchez-Gracia, Sonja Grath, Élio Sucena, Alan O. Bergland, Maria Pilar Garcia Guerreiro, Banu Sebnem Onder, Eliza Argyridou, Lain Guio, Mads, Fristrup Schou, Bart Deplancke, Cristina Vieira, Michael G. Ritchie, Bas J. Zwaan, Eran Tauber, Dorcas J. Orengo, Eva Puerma, Montserrat Aguadé, Paul S. Schmidt, John Parsch, Andrea J. Betancourt, Thomas Flatt & Josefa González. (2020). Genomic analysis of European Drosophila melanogaster populations reveals longitudinal structure, continent-wide selection, and previously unknown DNA viruses. Molecular Biology and Evolution. 37: 2661–2678. PDF
Jeremias N. Brand, R. Axel W. Wiberg, Robert Pjeta, Philip Bertemes, Christian Beisel, Peter Ladurner & Lukas Schärer. (2020). RNA-Seq of three free-living flatworm species suggests rapid evolution of reproduction-related genes. BMC Genomics 21: 462. PDF
2019
Verena E. Kutschera, Jelmer W. Poelstra, Nicolas Dussex, Neil J. Gemmell, Gavin R. Hunt, Michael G. Ritchie, Christian Rutz, R. Axel W. Wiberg & Jochen B. W. Wolf. (2019). Purifying selection in corvids is less efficient on islands. Molecular Biology and Evolution. 37: 469-474. PDF
Hannele Kauranen, Johanna Kinnunen, Anna-Lotta Hiillos, Pekka Lankinen, David Hopkins, R. Axel W. Wiberg, Michael G. Ritchie & Anneli Hoikkala. (2019). Selection for reproduction under short photoperiods changes diapause-associated traits and induces widespread genomic divergence. Journal of Experimental Biology 222: jeb205831. PDF
2018
Darren J. Parker, R. Axel W. Wiberg, Urmi Trivedi, Venera I. Tyukmaeva, Karim Gharbi, Roger K. Butlin, Anneli Hoikkala, Maaria Kankare & Michael G.Ritchie. (2018). Inter- and intra-specific genomic divergence in Drosophila montana shows evidence for cold adaptation. Genome Biology and Evolution. 10: 2086-2101. PDF
2017
R. Axel W. Wiberg*, Michael B. Morrisey, Oscar E. Gaggiotti, Michael G. Ritchie. (2017). Identifying consistent allele frequency differences in studies of stratified populations. Methods in Ecology and Evolution 8: 1899-1909. PDF
2016
R. Axel W. Wiberg, Andrew R. Scobie, Stuart W. A’Hara, Richard A. Ennos, Joan E. Cottrell (2016). The genetic consequences of long term habitat fragmentation on a self-incompatible clonal plant, Linnaea borealis L. Biological Conservation 201: 405-413. PDF
2015
Christopher B. Cunningham, Lexiang Ji, R. Axel W. Wiberg, Jennifer Shelton, Elizabeth C. McKinney , Darren J. Parker, Richard B. Meagher, Kyle M. Benowitz, Eileen M. Roy-Zokan, Michael G. Ritchie, Susan J. Brown, Robert J. Schmitz, Allen J. Moore. (2015). The genome and methylome of a beetle with complex social behavior, Nicrophorus vespilloides (Coleoptera: Silphidae). Genome Biology and Evolution 7:3383-3396. PDF
R. Axel W. Wiberg*, Daniel L. Halligan, Rob W. Ness, Anamaria Necsulea, Henrik Kaessmann, Peter D. Keightley. (2015). Assessing recent selection and functionality at long non-coding RNA loci in the mouse genome. Genome Biology and Evolution 7: 2432-2444. PDF
Preprints [preprint] R. Axel W. Wiberg*, Tom A. R. Price, Nina Wedell & Michael G. Ritchie. Identifying genomic markers associated with female re-mating rate in Drosophila pseudoobscura by replicated bulk segregant analysis. bioRxiv. doi: https://doi.org/10.1101/2020.04.20.049940
[preprint] R. Axel W. Wiberg*, Rosalind L. Murray, Elizabeth Herridge, Darryl T. Gwynne & Luc F. Bussière. Deceptive female display signals drive coevolution of remarkable eye dimorphism among dance flies (Diptera: Empididae). bioRxiv. doi: https://doi.org/10.1101/2022.03.14.484300