Professor Kathryn Elmer

  • Professor (Evolution & Diversity)

telephone: 6617
email: Kathryn.Elmer@glasgow.ac.uk

Graham Kerr Building, room 402

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ORCID iDhttps://orcid.org/0000-0002-9219-7001

Research interests

Background

 

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ResearcherID D-7734-2013


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I am a member of Scottish Crucible and the Alexander von Humboldt Network

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Research Interests

My primary motivation is to understand the role of natural selection and the environment in the diversification of species. By focusing on replicate geographical contexts and benefiting from our burgeoning ability to "genomicize" ecological model systems, I endeavour to address long-standing questions about evolution in new ways. My research program is built upon two major hierarchies of questions:

  1. How does natural selection act on the genomic and phenotypic variability of populations to promote speciation? How and when can we discern selective from non-selective factors in evolution?
  2. What is the role of intrinsic properties of taxa (e.g. genetic variation, genome architecture) in the potential for adaptation and speciation?

To answer these questions I pursue an integrated genetic, genomic, and ecological approach in a comparative framework. In particular, I focus on parallel adaptive radiations, especially of "ichs and herps". Such closely related taxa in a radiation represent phylogenetically-controlled "speciation in action", from the initial stages of population divergence through to behavioural and genetic isolation. We apply a range of genomic tools, especially population genomics using next-generation sequence data, ecological transcriptomics, and whole genome structural comparisons.

 

Current Projects

This represents a selection of my research interests and projects, many conducted in collaboration with undergraduate, Masters and PhD students. Please contact me if you wish further information or, for students, wish to discuss ideas for tailoring your own project within our team.
 
Ecological genomics of adaptive polymorphisms
A great challenge of evolutionary biology is that many processes occur on long timescales and are difficult to study or replicate. Therefore, I am especially fascinated by parallel evolution, or the repeated evolution of phenotypically similar species in spatially isolated but similar environments. In those cases we can use these ‘natural experiments’ to dissect the ecological, phenotypic, and genetic mechanisms and responses in diversification (see e.g. Elmer & Meyer (2011) Adaptation in the age of ecological genomics: insights from parallelism and convergence. Trends in Ecology & Evolution, 26, 298–306). Of particular interest are ecologically relevant trophic phenotypes and colour variants. We are pursuing this research with two models: primarily adaptive radiations of northern freshwater salmonids such as Arctic charr and European whitefish (e.g. Elmer, K. R., 2016. Genomic tools for new insights to variation, adaptation, and evolution in the salmonid fishes: a perspective for charr. Hydrobiologia) and also evolutionary radiations of salamanders. Work in collaboration with researchers at the University of Konstanz focuses on trophic and colour variants in parallel radiations of crater lake cichlid fishes (e.g. Kusche et al. 2015 Sympatric ecological divergence associated with a colour polymorphism, BMC Biology; Elmer et al. 2014 Parallel evolution of Nicaraguan crater lake cichlid fishes by non-parallel routes. Nature Communications).

Funding (partial list): Marie Curie Career Integration Grant (FP7) including studentship (prev H. Recknagel, currently A. Jacobs); Catalyst Fund, Wellcome Trust Institutional Strategic Support (Univ. Glasgow); Pilot Funding, Wellcome Trust Institutional Strategic Support (Univ. Glasgow); BBSRC-DTP studentship to M. Carruthers (with C. Adams); NERC Studentship to J. Burgon (with B. Mable).

 

‌The genetics of major evolutionary transitions
Life history variations provide key insights to species ecology and evolution across changing landscapes. We are studying the evolutionary history, comparative genomics, and ecological genomics of live-bearing vs egg-laying in squamate lizards. We are combining field research, experimental approaches on captive populations, and genomics of landscape patterns and deep evolutionary variations.

Funding (partial list): Lord Kelvin Adam Smith studentship to H. Recknagel (Univ. Glasgow, with N. Kamenos in Geography); NERC Standard Grant (RCUK).

 
Speciation in megadiverse groups
Species rich groups provide a good system to test demography and environment in speciation because there are numerous lineages to assess as replicates. For example, the forests on the slopes of the Andes mountains are a famous but poorly understood ‘biodiversity hotspot’. I have inferred evolutionary histories of morphological stasis despite deep genetic divergence (cryptic species) in species complexes of frogs and salamanders. We found that species branching was much older than expected and may have been promoted by ancient landscape changes (e.g. Elmer KR, Dávila JA, Lougheed SC (2007) Cryptic diversity and deep divergence in an upper Amazonian frog, Eleutherodactylus ockendeni. BMC Evolutionary Biology; Elmer, K. R., R. M. Bonett, D. B. Wake, and S. C. Lougheed. 2013. Early Miocene origin and cryptic diversification of South American salamanders. BMC Evolutionary Biology).

Research groups

Publications

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Number of items: 84.

2025

Strowbridge, Nicholas, Vieites, David R., Ritchie, Michael G. and Elmer, Kathryn R. ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-9219-7001 (2025) Contributions of epigenomic and epitranscriptomic methylation to animal colouration. Trends in Genetics, (doi: 10.1016/j.tig.2025.04.010) (PMID:40436685) (In Press)

Denizli, Irem, Monteiro, Ana, Elmer, Kathryn R. ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-9219-7001 and Stevenson, Tyler J. ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-2644-9685 (2025) Photoperiod-driven testicular DNA methylation in gonadotropin and sex steroid receptor promoters in Siberian hamsters. Journal of Comparative Physiology A: Neuroethology, Sensory, Neural, and Behavioral Physiology, (doi: 10.1007/s00359-025-01733-w) (PMID:39954063) (Early Online Publication)

Elmer, Kathryn R. ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-9219-7001 and Clobert, Jean (2025) Dollo’s law of irreversibility in the post-genomic age. Trends in Ecology and Evolution, 40(2), pp. 136-146. (doi: 10.1016/j.tree.2024.09.010) (PMID:39443236)

Hunter, Darren C., Clobert, Jean and Elmer, Kathryn R. ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-9219-7001 (2025) Parity-specific differences in spatial genetics and dispersal in the common lizard. Journal of Evolutionary Biology, 38(1), pp. 70-82. (doi: 10.1093/jeb/voae133) (PMID:39432763)

2024

Smout, John Laurence, Bain, Maureen M. ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-4980-5099, McLaughlin, Mark ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-5317-2090 and Elmer, Kathryn R. ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-9219-7001 (2024) Common lizard primary oviduct cell culture: a model system for the genetic and cellular basis of oviparity and viviparity. Experimental Cell Research, 442(1), p. 114196. (doi: 10.1016/j.yexcr.2024.114196) (PMID:39117090)

Hussain, Robert, Recknagel, Hans ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-2728-0690 and Elmer, Kathryn R. ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-9219-7001 (2024) Higher locomotor costs of pregnancy in viviparous compared to oviparous common lizards (Zootoca vivipara). Ecology and Evolution, 14(8), e70171. (doi: 10.1002/ece3.70171) (PMCID:PMC11327608)

Elmer, Kathryn R. ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-9219-7001, Fenton, Sam ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-5011-0329, Jacobs, Arne ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-7635-5447, Bean, Colin W. ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-3502-0995 and Adams, Colin E. ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-2470-9754 (2024) Genomic underpinnings of head and body shape in Arctic charr ecomorph pairs. Molecular Ecology, 33(7), e17305. (doi: 10.1111/mec.17305) (PMID:38421099)

Recknagel, Hans ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-2728-0690, Leitão, Henrique G. and Elmer, Kathryn R. ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-9219-7001 (2024) Genetic basis and expression of ventral colour in polymorphic common lizards. Molecular Ecology, 33(5), e17278. (doi: 10.1111/mec.17278) (PMID:38268086)

Tiddy, Isabelle C., Schneider, Kevin and Elmer, Kathryn R. ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-9219-7001 (2024) Environmental correlates of adaptive diversification in post‐glacial freshwater fishes. Journal of Fish Biology, 104(3), pp. 517-535. (doi: 10.1111/jfb.15621) (PMID:37984834)

Fenton, Sam, Bean, Colin W. ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-3502-0995, Martin, Samuel A.M., Poultney, Samuel J., Adams, Colin E. ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-2470-9754 and Elmer, Kathryn R. ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-9219-7001 (2024) Ecological opportunity leads to higher diversity and probability of trophic specialisation in Arctic charr. Evolutionary Journal of the Linnean Society, 3(1), kzae014. (doi: 10.1093/evolinnean/kzae014)

2023

Recknagel, Hans ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-2728-0690, Harvey, William, Layton, Megan and Elmer, Kathryn R. ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-9219-7001 (2023) Common lizard microhabitat selection varies by sex, parity mode, and colouration. BMC Ecology and Evolution, 23(1), 47. (doi: 10.1186/s12862-023-02158-2) (PMID:37667183) (PMCID:PMC10478496)

San‐Jose, L. M. et al. (2023) Investigating the genetic basis of vertebrate dispersal combining RNA-seq, RAD-seq and quantitative genetics. Molecular Ecology, 32(12), pp. 3060-3075. (doi: 10.1111/mec.16916) (PMID:36872057)

Fenton, Sam ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-5011-0329, Elmer, Kathryn R. ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-9219-7001, Bean, Colin W. ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-3502-0995 and Adams, Colin E. ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-2470-9754 (2023) How glaciation impacted evolutionary history and contemporary genetic diversity of flora and fauna in the British Isles. Scottish Geographical Journal, 139(3-4), pp. 445-465. (doi: 10.1080/14702541.2023.2231407)

2021

Crespel, Amélie, Schneider, Kevin, Miller, Toby, Rácz, Anita, Jacobs, Arne ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-7635-5447, Lindström, Jan ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-5630-6680, Elmer, Kathryn R. ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-9219-7001 and Killen, Shaun S. ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-4949-3988 (2021) Genomic basis of fishing-associated selection varies with population density. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America, 118(51), e2020833118. (doi: 10.1073/pnas.2020833118) (PMID:34903645) (PMCID:PMC8713780)

Crotti, Marco, Bean, Colin W. ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-3502-0995, Gowans, Andy R.D., Winfield, Ian J., Butowska, Magdalena, Wanzenböck, Josef, Bondarencko, Galina, Præbel, Kim, Adams, Colin E. ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-2470-9754 and Elmer, Kathryn R. ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-9219-7001 (2021) Complex and divergent histories gave rise to genome-wide divergence patterns amongst European whitefish (Coregonus lavaretus). Journal of Evolutionary Biology, 34(12), pp. 1954-1969. (doi: 10.1111/jeb.13948) (PMID:34653264) (PMCID:PMC9251650)

Recknagel, Hans ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-2728-0690, Carruthers, Madeleine, Yurchenko, Andrey A., Nokhbatolfoghahai, Mohsen, Kamenos, Nicholas A. ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-3434-0807, Bain, Maureen M. ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-4980-5099 and Elmer, Kathryn R. ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-9219-7001 (2021) The functional genetic architecture of egg-laying and live-bearing reproduction in common lizards. Nature Ecology and Evolution, 5(11), pp. 1546-1556. (doi: 10.1038/s41559-021-01555-4) (PMID:34621056)

Crotti, Marco, Yohannes, Elizabeth, Winfield, Ian J., Lyle, Alex A., Adams, Colin E. ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-2470-9754 and Elmer, Kathryn R. ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-9219-7001 (2021) Rapid adaptation through genomic and epigenomic responses following translocations in an endangered salmonid. Evolutionary Applications, 14(10), pp. 2470-2489. (doi: 10.1111/eva.13267) (PMID:34745338) (PMCID:PMC8549615)

Jacobs, Arne ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-7635-5447 and Elmer, Kathryn R. ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-9219-7001 (2021) Alternative splicing and gene expression play contrasting roles in the parallel phenotypic evolution of a salmonid fish. Molecular Ecology, 30(20), pp. 4955-4969. (doi: 10.1111/mec.15817) (PMID:33502030) (PMCID:PMC8653899)

Recknagel, Hans ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-2728-0690, Kamenos, Nicholas A. ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-3434-0807 and Elmer, Kathryn R. ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-9219-7001 (2021) Evolutionary origins of viviparity consistent with palaeoclimate and lineage diversification. Journal of Evolutionary Biology, 34(7), pp. 1167-1176. (doi: 10.1111/jeb.13886) (PMID:34107111)

Schneider, Kevin, White, Tom J., Mitchell, Sonia ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-1536-2066, Adams, Colin E. ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-2470-9754, Reeve, Richard ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-2589-8091 and Elmer, Kathryn R. ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-9219-7001 (2021) Pitfalls and virtues of population genetic summary statistics: detecting selective sweeps in recent divergences. Journal of Evolutionary Biology, 34(6), pp. 893-909. (doi: 10.1111/jeb.13738) (PMID:33185292)

Burgon, J. D. et al. (2021) Phylogenomic inference of species and subspecies diversity in the Palearctic salamander genus Salamandra. Molecular Phylogenetics and Evolution, 157, 107063. (doi: 10.1016/j.ympev.2020.107063) (PMID:33387650)

2020

Yurchenko, Andrey A., Recknagel, Hans ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-2728-0690 and Elmer, Kathryn ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-9219-7001 (2020) Chromosome-level assembly of the common lizard (Zootoca vivipara) genome. Genome Biology and Evolution, 12(11), pp. 1953-1960. (doi: 10.1093/gbe/evaa161) (PMID:32835354) (PMCID:PMC7643610)

Crotti, Marco, Adams, Colin E. ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-2470-9754 and Elmer, Kathryn ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-9219-7001 (2020) Population genomic SNPs from epigenetic RADs: gaining genetic and epigenetic data from a single established next-generation sequencing approach. Methods in Ecology and Evolution, 11(7), pp. 839-849. (doi: 10.1111/2041-210X.13395)

Burgon, James D. ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-7035-6614, Vieites, David R., Jacobs, Arne ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-7635-5447, Weidt, Stefan K., Gunter, Helen M., Steinfartz, Sebastian, Burgess, Karl, Marble, Barbara K. and Elmer, Kathryn R. ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-9219-7001 (2020) Functional colour genes and signals of selection in colour polymorphic salamanders. Molecular Ecology, 29(7), pp. 1284-1299. (doi: 10.1111/mec.15411) (PMID:32159878)

Jacobs, A. et al. (2020) Parallelism in eco-morphology and gene expression despite variable evolutionary and genomic backgrounds in a Holarctic fish. PLoS Genetics, 16(4), e1008658. (doi: 10.1371/journal.pgen.1008658) (PMID:32302300) (PMCID:PMC7164584)

Li, Chao, Wang, Junjie, Chen, Jiaqi, Schneider, Kevin, Veettil, Radhakrishnan K., Elmer, Kathryn R. ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-9219-7001 and Zhao, Jun (2020) Native bighead carp Hypophthalmichthys nobilis and silver carp Hypophthalmichthys molitrix populations in the Pearl River are threatened by Yangtze River introductions as revealed by mitochondrial DNA. Journal of Fish Biology, 96(3), pp. 651-662. (doi: 10.1111/jfb.14253) (PMID:31919843)

Crotti, M. et al. (2020) Geographic hierarchical population genetic structuring in British European whitefish (Coregonus lavaretus) and its implications for conservation. Conservation Genetics, 21, pp. 927-939. (doi: 10.1007/s10592-020-01298-y)

2019

McLennan, D., Recknagel, H. ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-2728-0690, Elmer, K.R. ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-9219-7001 and Monaghan, P. ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-2430-0326 (2019) Distinct telomere differences within a reproductively bimodal common lizard population. Functional Ecology, 33(10), pp. 1917-1927. (doi: 10.1111/1365-2435.13408) (PMID:31762528) (PMCID:PMC6853248)

Koene, J. Peter, Crotti, Marco, Elmer, Kathryn R. ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-9219-7001 and Adams, Colin E. ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-2470-9754 (2019) Differential selection pressures result in a rapid divergence of donor and refuge populations of a high conservation value freshwater fish Coregonus lavaretus (L.). Evolutionary Ecology, 33(4), pp. 533-548. (doi: 10.1007/s10682-019-09995-y)

Recknagel, Hans ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-2728-0690 and Elmer, Kathryn R. ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-9219-7001 (2019) Differential reproductive investment in co-occurring oviparous and viviparous common lizards (Zootoca vivipara) and implications for life-history trade-offs with viviparity. Oecologia, 190(1), pp. 85-98. (doi: 10.1007/s00442-019-04398-w) (PMID:31062164) (PMCID:PMC6535419)

Goudarzi, Forough, Hemami, Mahmoud-Reza, Rancilhac, Loïs, Malekian, Mansoureh, Fakheran, Sima, Elmer, Kathryn R. ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-9219-7001 and Steinfartz, Sebastian (2019) Geographic separation and genetic differentiation of populations are not coupled with niche differentiation in threatened Kaiser's spotted newt (Neurergus kaiseri). Scientific Reports, 9, 6239. (doi: 10.1038/s41598-019-41886-8) (PMID:30996234) (PMCID:PMC6470216)

Rancilhac, Loïs, Goudarzi, Forough, Gehara, Marcelo, Hemami, Mahmoud-Reza, Elmer, Kathryn R. ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-9219-7001, Vences, Miguel and Steinfarz, Sebastian (2019) Phylogeny and species delimitation of near Eastern Neurergus newts (Salamandridae) based on genome-wide RADseq data analysis. Molecular Phylogenetics and Evolution, 133, pp. 189-197. (doi: 10.1016/j.ympev.2019.01.003) (PMID:30659915)

Dinis, M. et al. (2019) Allopatric diversification and evolutionary melting pot in a North African Palearctic relict: the biogeographic history of Salamandra algira. Molecular Phylogenetics and Evolution, 130, pp. 81-91. (doi: 10.1016/j.ympev.2018.10.018) (PMID:30321698)

Jacobs, Arne ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-7635-5447, Carruthers, Madeleine, Eckmann, Reiner, Yohannes, Elizabeth, Adams, Colin E. ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-2470-9754, Behrmann-Godel, Jasminca and Elmer, Kathryn R. ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-9219-7001 (2019) Rapid niche expansion by selection on functional genomic variation after ecosystem recovery. Nature Ecology and Evolution, 3(1), pp. 77-86. (doi: 10.1038/s41559-018-0742-9) (PMID:30510178)

Schneider, Kevin, Adams, Colin E. ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-2470-9754 and Elmer, Kathryn R. ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-9219-7001 (2019) Parallel selection on ecologically relevant gene functions in the transcriptomes of highly diversifying salmonids. BMC Genomics, 20, 1010. (doi: 10.1186/s12864-019-6361-2) (PMID:31870285) (PMCID:PMC6929470)

2018

Recknagel, Hans ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-2728-0690, Kamenos, Nick ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-3434-0807 and Elmer, Kathryn R. ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-9219-7001 (2018) Common lizards break Dollo’s law of irreversibility: genome-wide phylogenomics support a single origin of viviparity and re-evolution of oviparity. Molecular Phylogenetics and Evolution, 127, pp. 579-588. (doi: 10.1016/j.ympev.2018.05.029) (PMID:29803948)

Jacobs, Arne, Hughes, Martin R., Robinson, Paige C., Adams, Colin E. ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-2470-9754 and Elmer, Kathryn R. ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-9219-7001 (2018) The genetic architecture underlying the evolution of a rare piscivorous life history form in brown trout after secondary contact and strong introgression. Genes, 9(6), 280. (doi: 10.3390/genes9060280) (PMID:29857499) (PMCID:PMC6026935)

Jacobs, A., De Noia, M., Praebel, K., Kanstad-Hanssen, Ø., Paterno, M., Jackson, D., McGinnity, P., Sturm, A., Elmer, K. ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-9219-7001 and Llewellyn, M.S. ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-9856-1591 (2018) Genetic fingerprinting of salmon louse (Lepeophtheirus salmonis) populations in the North-East Atlantic using a random forest classification approach. Scientific Reports, 8, 1203. (doi: 10.1038/s41598-018-19323-z) (PMID:29352185) (PMCID:PMC5775277)

Lehtonen, T.K., Elmer, K.R. ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-9219-7001, Lappalainen, M. and Meyer, A. (2018) Genetic evidence for panmixia in a colony-breeding crater lake cichlid fish. Scientific Reports, 8, 1166. (doi: 10.1038/s41598-018-19266-5) (PMID:29348515) (PMCID:PMC5773479)

Carruthers, Madeleine, Yurchenko, Andrey A., Augley, Julian J., Adams, Colin E. ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-2470-9754, Herzyk, Pawel ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-7439-292X and Elmer, Kathryn R. ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-9219-7001 (2018) De novo transcriptome assembly, annotation and comparison of four ecological and evolutionary model salmonid fish species. BMC Genomics, 19, 32. (doi: 10.1186/s12864-017-4379-x) (PMID:29310597) (PMCID:PMC5759245)

Recknagel, Hans ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-2728-0690, Layton, Megan, Carey, Ruth, Leitao, Henrique, Sutherland, Mark and Elmer, Kathryn R. ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-9219-7001 (2018) Melanism in common lizards (Squamata: Lacertidae: Zootoca vivipara): new evidence for a rare but widespread ancestral polymorphism. Herpetology Notes, 11, pp. 607-612.

Waddell, Emily H., Crotti, Marco, Lougheed, Stephen C., Cannatella, David C. and Elmer, Kathryn R. ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-9219-7001 (2018) Hierarchies of evolutionary radiation in the worlds most species rich vertebrate group the Neotropical Pristimantis leaf litter frogs. Systematics and Biodiversity, 16(8), pp. 807-819. (doi: 10.1080/14772000.2018.1503202)

Woodford, Luke, Bianco, Giovanni, Ivanova, Yoana, Dale, Maeve, Elmer, Kathryn ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-9219-7001, Rae, Fiona, Larcombe, Stephen D., Helm, Barbara, Ferguson, Heather M. ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-9625-5176 and Baldini, Francesco ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-5904-4070 (2018) Vector species-specific association between natural Wolbachia infections and avian malaria in black fly populations. Scientific Reports, 8, 4188. (doi: 10.1038/s41598-018-22550-z) (PMID:29520067) (PMCID:PMC5843599)

2017

Jacobs, Arne, Womack, Robyn, Chen, Mel, Gharbi, Karim and Elmer, Kathryn R. ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-9219-7001 (2017) Significant synteny and colocalization of ecologically relevant quantitative trait loci within and across species of salmonid fishes. Genetics, 207(2), pp. 741-754. (doi: 10.1534/genetics.117.300093) (PMID:28760747)

Rodríguez, A. et al. (2017) Inferring the shallow phylogeny of true salamanders (Salamandra) by multiple phylogenomic approaches. Molecular Phylogenetics and Evolution, 115, pp. 16-26. (doi: 10.1016/j.ympev.2017.07.009) (PMID:28716741)

Torres-Dowdall, Julián, Pierotti, Michele E.R., Härer, Andreas, Karagic, Nidal, Woltering, Joost M., Henning, Frederico, Elmer, Kathryn R. ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-9219-7001 and Meyer, Axel (2017) Rapid and parallel adaptive evolution of the visual system of Neotropical Midas cichlid fishes. Molecular Biology and Evolution, 34(10), pp. 2469-2485. (doi: 10.1093/molbev/msx143) (PMID:28444297)

Elmer, K.R. ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-9219-7001 (2017) Barrier loci and progress towards evolutionary generalities. Journal of Evolutionary Biology, 30(8), pp. 1491-1493. (doi: 10.1111/jeb.13104) (PMID:28786186)

Recknagel, Hans ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-2728-0690, Hooker, Oliver E., Adams, Colin E. ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-2470-9754 and Elmer, Kathryn R. ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-9219-7001 (2017) Ecosystem size predicts eco-morphological variability in a postglacial diversification. Ecology and Evolution, 7(15), pp. 5560-5570. (doi: 10.1002/ece3.3013)

2016

Elmer, Kathryn R. ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-9219-7001 (2016) Genomic tools for new insights to variation, adaptation, and evolution in the salmonid fishes: a perspective for charr. Hydrobiologia, 783(1), pp. 191-208. (doi: 10.1007/s10750-015-2614-5)

Fruciano, Carmelo, Franchini, Paolo, Kovacova, Viera, Elmer, Kathryn ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-9219-7001, Henning, Frederico and Meyer, Axel (2016) Genetic linkage of distinct adaptive traits in sympatrically speciating crater lake cichlid fish. Nature Communications, 7, 12736. (doi: 10.1038/ncomms12736) (PMID:27597183) (PMCID:PMC5025864)

2015

Recknagel, Hans ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-2728-0690, Jacobs, Arne, Herzyk, Pawel ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-7439-292X and Elmer, Kathryn R. ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-9219-7001 (2015) Double-digest RAD sequencing using Ion Proton semiconductor platform (ddRADseq-ion) with nonmodel organisms. Molecular Ecology Resources, 15(6), pp. 1316-1329. (doi: 10.1111/1755-0998.12406) (PMID:25808755)

Kusche, Henrik, Elmer, Kathryn R. ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-9219-7001 and Meyer, Axel (2015) Sympatric ecological divergence associated with a color polymorphism. BMC Biology, 13(1), 82. (doi: 10.1186/s12915-015-0192-7) (PMID:26437665) (PMCID:PMC4594650)

Recknagel, Hans ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-2728-0690, Amos, Amy and Elmer, Kathryn R. ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-9219-7001 (2015) Morphological and ecological variation among populations and subspecies of Burbot (Lota lota [L, 1758]) from the Mackenzie River Delta, Canada. Canadian Field-Naturalist, 128(4), pp. 377-384.

Torres-Dowdall, J., Henning, F., Elmer, K.R. ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-9219-7001 and Meyer, A. (2015) Ecological and lineage-specific factors drive the molecular evolution of rhodopsin in cichlid fishes. Molecular Biology and Evolution, 32(11), pp. 2876-2882. (doi: 10.1093/molbev/msv159) (PMID:26187436)

2014

Recknagel, Hans ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-2728-0690, Elmer, Kathryn R. ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-9219-7001 and Meyer, Axel (2014) Crater lake habitat predicts morphological diversity in adaptive radiations of cichild fishes. Evolution, 68(7), pp. 2145-2155. (doi: 10.1111/evo.12412)

Franchini, Paolo, Fruciano, Carmelo, Spreitzer, Maria L., Jones, Julia C., Elmer, Kathryn R. ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-9219-7001, Henning, Frederico and Meyer, Axel (2014) Genomic architecture of ecologically divergent body shape in a pair of sympatric crater lake cichlid fishes. Molecular Ecology, 23(7), pp. 1828-1845. (doi: 10.1111/mec.12590)

Kusche, Henrik, Recknagel, Hans, Elmer, Kathryn Rebecca ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-9219-7001 and Meyer, Axel (2014) Crater lake cichlids individually specialize along the benthic-limnetic axis. Ecology and Evolution, 4(7), pp. 1127-1139. (doi: 10.1002/ece3.1015)

Elmer, Kathryn R. ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-9219-7001, Fan, Shaohua, Kusche, Henrik, Luise Spreitzer, Maria, Kautt, Andreas F., Franchini, Paolo and Meyer, Axel (2014) Parallel evolution of Nicaraguan crater lake cichlid fishes via non-parallel routes. Nature Communications, 5, (doi: 10.1038/ncomms6168)

2013

Recknagel, H. ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-2728-0690, Elmer, K.R. ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-9219-7001, Noonan, B.P., Raselimanana, A.P., Meyer, A. and Vences, M. (2013) Multi-gene phylogeny of Madagascar’s plated lizards, Zonosaurus and Tracheloptychus (Squamata: Gerrhosauridae). Molecular Phylogenetics and Evolution, 69(3), pp. 1215-1221. (doi: 10.1016/j.ympev.2013.06.013)

Recknagel, H., Kusche, H., Elmer, K.R. ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-9219-7001 and Meyer, A. (2013) Two new endemic species in the Midas cichlid species complex from Nicaraguan crater lakes: Amphilophus tolteca and Amphilophus viridis (Perciformes, Cichlidae). Aqua, International Journal of Ichthyology, 19(4), pp. 207-224.

Manousaki, Tereza, Hull, Pincelli M., Kusche, Henrik, Machado-Schiaffino, Gonzalo, Franchini, Paolo, Harrod, Chris, Elmer, Kathryn R. ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-9219-7001 and Meyer, Axel (2013) Parsing parallel evolution: ecological divergence and differential gene expression in the adaptive radiations of thick-lipped Midas cichlid fishes from Nicaragua. Molecular Ecology, 22(3), pp. 650-669. (doi: 10.1111/mec.12034)

Elmer, Kathryn R. ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-9219-7001, Lehtonen, Topi K., Fan, Shaohua and Meyer, Axel (2013) Crater lake Colonization by Neotropical Cichlid Fishes. Evolution, 67(1), pp. 281-288. (doi: 10.1111/j.1558-5646.2012.01755.x)

Elmer, Kathryn R ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-9219-7001, Bonett, Ronald M, Wake, David B and Lougheed, Stephen C (2013) Early miocene origin and cryptic diversification of South American salamanders. BMC Evolutionary Biology, 13(59), (doi: 10.1186/1471-2148-13-59)

Recknagel, Hans ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-2728-0690, Elmer, Kathryn R. ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-9219-7001 and Meyer, Axel (2013) A hybrid genetic linkage map of two ecologically and morphologically divergent Midas Cichlid fishes (Amphilophus spp.) obtained by massively parallel DNA sequencing (ddRADSeq). G3: Genes, Genomes, Genetics, 3(1), pp. 65-74. (doi: 10.1534/g3.112.003897)

2012

Kautt, Andreas F., Elmer, Kathryn R. ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-9219-7001 and Meyer, Axel (2012) Genomic signatures of divergent selection and speciation patterns in a ‘natural experiment’, the young parallel radiations of Nicaraguan crater lake cichlid fishes. Molecular Ecology, 21(19), pp. 4770-4786. (doi: 10.1111/j.1365-294X.2012.05738.x)

Elmer, Kathryn R. ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-9219-7001, Recknagel, Hans ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-2728-0690, Thompson, Amy and Meyer, Axel (2012) Asymmetric admixture and morphological variability at a suture zone: parapatric burbot subspecies (Pisces) in the Mackenzie River basin, Canada. Hydrobiologia, 683(1), pp. 217-229. (doi: 10.1007/s10750-011-0959-y)

Fan, Shaohua, Elmer, Kathryn R. ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-9219-7001 and Meyer, Axel (2012) Genomics of adaptation and speciation in cichlid fishes: recent advances and analyses in African and Neotropical lineages. Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences, 367(1587), pp. 385-394. (doi: 10.1098/rstb.2011.0247)

2011

Fan, Shaohua, Elmer, Kathryn R. ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-9219-7001 and Meyer, Axel (2011) Positive Darwinian selection drives the evolution of the morphology-related gene, EPCAM, in particularly species-rich lineages of African Cichlid fishes. Journal of Molecular Evolution, 73(1-2), pp. 1-9. (doi: 10.1007/s00239-011-9452-5)

Elmer, Kathryn R. ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-9219-7001 and Meyer, Axel (2011) Adaptation in the age of ecological genomics: insights from parallelism and convergence. Trends in Ecology and Evolution, 26(6), pp. 298-306. (doi: 10.1016/j.tree.2011.02.008)

Angienda, Paul O., Lee, Hyuk Je, Elmer, Kathryn R. ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-9219-7001, Abila, Romulus, Waindi, Eliud N. and Meyer, Axel (2011) Genetic structure and gene flow in an endangered native tilapia fish (Oreochromis esculentus) compared to invasive Nile tilapia (Oreochromis niloticus) in Yala swamp, East Africa. Conservation Genetics, 12(1), pp. 243-255. (doi: 10.1007/s10592-010-0136-2)

2010

Elmer, K.R. ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-9219-7001, Kusche, H., Lehtonen, T.K. and Meyer, A. (2010) Local variation and parallel evolution: morphological and genetic diversity across a species complex of neotropical crater lake cichlid fishes. Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences, 365(1547), pp. 1763-1782. (doi: 10.1098/rstb.2009.0271)

Elmer, Kathryn R. ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-9219-7001 and Meyer, Axel (2010) Sympatric speciation without borders? Molecular Ecology, 19(10), pp. 1991-1993. (doi: 10.1111/j.1365-294X.2010.04612.x)

Elmer, K.R. ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-9219-7001, Fan, S., Gunter, H.M., Jones, J.C., Boekhoff, S., Kuraku, S. and Meyer, A. (2010) Rapid evolution and selection inferred from the transcriptomes of sympatric crater lake cichlid fishes. Molecular Ecology, 19(Sup s1), pp. 197-211. (doi: 10.1111/j.1365-294X.2009.04488.x)

Elmer, K.R. ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-9219-7001, Lehtonen, T.K., Kautt, A.F., Harrod, C. and Meyer, A. (2010) Rapid sympatric ecological differentiation of crater lake cichlid fishes within historic times. BMC Biology, 8(1), p. 60. (doi: 10.1186/1741-7007-8-60)

2009

Elmer, Kathryn R. ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-9219-7001, Lehtonen, Topi K. and Meyer, Axel (2009) Color assortative mating contributes to sympatric divergence of neotropical cichlid fish. Evolution, 63(10), pp. 2750-2757. (doi: 10.1111/j.1558-5646.2009.00736.x)

Elmer, K.R. ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-9219-7001, Reggio, C., Wirth, T., Verheyen, E., Salzburger, W. and Meyer, A. (2009) Pleistocene desiccation in East Africa bottlenecked but did not extirpate the adaptive radiation of Lake Victoria haplochromine cichlid fishes. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America, 106(32), pp. 13404-13409. (doi: 10.1073/pnas.0902299106)

Elmer, K.R. ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-9219-7001, Thompson, L.R. and Meyer, A. (2009) Similar levels of diversity and population Structure in superflock and non-superflock cichlid fishes from Lake Victoria, Africa. Tropical Freshwater Biology, 18(2), (doi: 10.4314/tfb.v18i2.63288)

2008

Elmer, Kathryn R. ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-9219-7001 and Cannatella, David C. (2008) Three new species of leaflitter frogs from the upper Amazon forests: cryptic diversity within Pristimantis “ockendeni” (Anura: Strabomantidae) in Ecuador. Zootaxa, 1784, pp. 11-38.

Elmer, Kathryn R. ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-9219-7001, Van Houdt, Jeroen K.J., Meyer, Axel and Volckaert, Filip A.M. (2008) Population genetic structure of North American burbot (Lota lota maculosa) across the Nearctic and at its contact zone with Eurasian burbot (Lota lota lota). Canadian Journal of Fisheries and Aquatic Sciences, 65(11), pp. 2412-2426. (doi: 10.1139/F08-173)

2007

Elmer, K.R. ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-9219-7001, Dávila, J.A. and Lougheed, S.C. (2007) Applying new inter-individual approaches to assess fine-scale population genetic diversity in a neotropical frog, Eleutherodactylus ockendeni. Heredity, 99(5), pp. 506-515. (doi: 10.1038/sj.hdy.6801025)

Elmer, Kathryn R. ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-9219-7001, Dávila, José A. and Lougheed, Stephen C. (2007) Cryptic diversity and deep divergence in an upper Amazonian leaflitter frog, Eleutherodactylus ockendeni. BMC Evolutionary Biology, 7(247), (doi: 10.1186/1471-2148-7-247)

2006

Elmer, Kathryn R. ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-9219-7001, Davilia, Jose A. and Lougheed, Stephen C. (2006) Isolation of simple and compound polymorphic tetranucleotide microsatellites for the neotropical leaflitter frog Eleutherodactylus ockendeni (Leptodactylidae). Molecular Ecology Notes, 6(3), pp. 891-893. (doi: 10.1111/j.1471-8286.2006.01389.x)

2004

Elmer, Kathryn ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-9219-7001 (2004) Geographic Distribution. Eleutherodactylus librarius. Herpetological Review, 35(1), p. 77.

2000

Elmer, Kathryn ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-9219-7001 (2000) Education and Earth. Queen's Quarterly, 107(65),

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Strowbridge, Nicholas, Vieites, David R., Ritchie, Michael G. and Elmer, Kathryn R. ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-9219-7001 (2025) Contributions of epigenomic and epitranscriptomic methylation to animal colouration. Trends in Genetics, (doi: 10.1016/j.tig.2025.04.010) (PMID:40436685) (In Press)

Denizli, Irem, Monteiro, Ana, Elmer, Kathryn R. ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-9219-7001 and Stevenson, Tyler J. ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-2644-9685 (2025) Photoperiod-driven testicular DNA methylation in gonadotropin and sex steroid receptor promoters in Siberian hamsters. Journal of Comparative Physiology A: Neuroethology, Sensory, Neural, and Behavioral Physiology, (doi: 10.1007/s00359-025-01733-w) (PMID:39954063) (Early Online Publication)

Elmer, Kathryn R. ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-9219-7001 and Clobert, Jean (2025) Dollo’s law of irreversibility in the post-genomic age. Trends in Ecology and Evolution, 40(2), pp. 136-146. (doi: 10.1016/j.tree.2024.09.010) (PMID:39443236)

Hunter, Darren C., Clobert, Jean and Elmer, Kathryn R. ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-9219-7001 (2025) Parity-specific differences in spatial genetics and dispersal in the common lizard. Journal of Evolutionary Biology, 38(1), pp. 70-82. (doi: 10.1093/jeb/voae133) (PMID:39432763)

Smout, John Laurence, Bain, Maureen M. ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-4980-5099, McLaughlin, Mark ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-5317-2090 and Elmer, Kathryn R. ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-9219-7001 (2024) Common lizard primary oviduct cell culture: a model system for the genetic and cellular basis of oviparity and viviparity. Experimental Cell Research, 442(1), p. 114196. (doi: 10.1016/j.yexcr.2024.114196) (PMID:39117090)

Hussain, Robert, Recknagel, Hans ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-2728-0690 and Elmer, Kathryn R. ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-9219-7001 (2024) Higher locomotor costs of pregnancy in viviparous compared to oviparous common lizards (Zootoca vivipara). Ecology and Evolution, 14(8), e70171. (doi: 10.1002/ece3.70171) (PMCID:PMC11327608)

Elmer, Kathryn R. ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-9219-7001, Fenton, Sam ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-5011-0329, Jacobs, Arne ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-7635-5447, Bean, Colin W. ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-3502-0995 and Adams, Colin E. ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-2470-9754 (2024) Genomic underpinnings of head and body shape in Arctic charr ecomorph pairs. Molecular Ecology, 33(7), e17305. (doi: 10.1111/mec.17305) (PMID:38421099)

Recknagel, Hans ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-2728-0690, Leitão, Henrique G. and Elmer, Kathryn R. ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-9219-7001 (2024) Genetic basis and expression of ventral colour in polymorphic common lizards. Molecular Ecology, 33(5), e17278. (doi: 10.1111/mec.17278) (PMID:38268086)

Tiddy, Isabelle C., Schneider, Kevin and Elmer, Kathryn R. ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-9219-7001 (2024) Environmental correlates of adaptive diversification in post‐glacial freshwater fishes. Journal of Fish Biology, 104(3), pp. 517-535. (doi: 10.1111/jfb.15621) (PMID:37984834)

Fenton, Sam, Bean, Colin W. ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-3502-0995, Martin, Samuel A.M., Poultney, Samuel J., Adams, Colin E. ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-2470-9754 and Elmer, Kathryn R. ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-9219-7001 (2024) Ecological opportunity leads to higher diversity and probability of trophic specialisation in Arctic charr. Evolutionary Journal of the Linnean Society, 3(1), kzae014. (doi: 10.1093/evolinnean/kzae014)

Recknagel, Hans ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-2728-0690, Harvey, William, Layton, Megan and Elmer, Kathryn R. ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-9219-7001 (2023) Common lizard microhabitat selection varies by sex, parity mode, and colouration. BMC Ecology and Evolution, 23(1), 47. (doi: 10.1186/s12862-023-02158-2) (PMID:37667183) (PMCID:PMC10478496)

San‐Jose, L. M. et al. (2023) Investigating the genetic basis of vertebrate dispersal combining RNA-seq, RAD-seq and quantitative genetics. Molecular Ecology, 32(12), pp. 3060-3075. (doi: 10.1111/mec.16916) (PMID:36872057)

Fenton, Sam ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-5011-0329, Elmer, Kathryn R. ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-9219-7001, Bean, Colin W. ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-3502-0995 and Adams, Colin E. ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-2470-9754 (2023) How glaciation impacted evolutionary history and contemporary genetic diversity of flora and fauna in the British Isles. Scottish Geographical Journal, 139(3-4), pp. 445-465. (doi: 10.1080/14702541.2023.2231407)

Crespel, Amélie, Schneider, Kevin, Miller, Toby, Rácz, Anita, Jacobs, Arne ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-7635-5447, Lindström, Jan ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-5630-6680, Elmer, Kathryn R. ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-9219-7001 and Killen, Shaun S. ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-4949-3988 (2021) Genomic basis of fishing-associated selection varies with population density. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America, 118(51), e2020833118. (doi: 10.1073/pnas.2020833118) (PMID:34903645) (PMCID:PMC8713780)

Crotti, Marco, Bean, Colin W. ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-3502-0995, Gowans, Andy R.D., Winfield, Ian J., Butowska, Magdalena, Wanzenböck, Josef, Bondarencko, Galina, Præbel, Kim, Adams, Colin E. ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-2470-9754 and Elmer, Kathryn R. ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-9219-7001 (2021) Complex and divergent histories gave rise to genome-wide divergence patterns amongst European whitefish (Coregonus lavaretus). Journal of Evolutionary Biology, 34(12), pp. 1954-1969. (doi: 10.1111/jeb.13948) (PMID:34653264) (PMCID:PMC9251650)

Recknagel, Hans ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-2728-0690, Carruthers, Madeleine, Yurchenko, Andrey A., Nokhbatolfoghahai, Mohsen, Kamenos, Nicholas A. ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-3434-0807, Bain, Maureen M. ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-4980-5099 and Elmer, Kathryn R. ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-9219-7001 (2021) The functional genetic architecture of egg-laying and live-bearing reproduction in common lizards. Nature Ecology and Evolution, 5(11), pp. 1546-1556. (doi: 10.1038/s41559-021-01555-4) (PMID:34621056)

Crotti, Marco, Yohannes, Elizabeth, Winfield, Ian J., Lyle, Alex A., Adams, Colin E. ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-2470-9754 and Elmer, Kathryn R. ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-9219-7001 (2021) Rapid adaptation through genomic and epigenomic responses following translocations in an endangered salmonid. Evolutionary Applications, 14(10), pp. 2470-2489. (doi: 10.1111/eva.13267) (PMID:34745338) (PMCID:PMC8549615)

Jacobs, Arne ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-7635-5447 and Elmer, Kathryn R. ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-9219-7001 (2021) Alternative splicing and gene expression play contrasting roles in the parallel phenotypic evolution of a salmonid fish. Molecular Ecology, 30(20), pp. 4955-4969. (doi: 10.1111/mec.15817) (PMID:33502030) (PMCID:PMC8653899)

Recknagel, Hans ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-2728-0690, Kamenos, Nicholas A. ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-3434-0807 and Elmer, Kathryn R. ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-9219-7001 (2021) Evolutionary origins of viviparity consistent with palaeoclimate and lineage diversification. Journal of Evolutionary Biology, 34(7), pp. 1167-1176. (doi: 10.1111/jeb.13886) (PMID:34107111)

Schneider, Kevin, White, Tom J., Mitchell, Sonia ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-1536-2066, Adams, Colin E. ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-2470-9754, Reeve, Richard ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-2589-8091 and Elmer, Kathryn R. ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-9219-7001 (2021) Pitfalls and virtues of population genetic summary statistics: detecting selective sweeps in recent divergences. Journal of Evolutionary Biology, 34(6), pp. 893-909. (doi: 10.1111/jeb.13738) (PMID:33185292)

Burgon, J. D. et al. (2021) Phylogenomic inference of species and subspecies diversity in the Palearctic salamander genus Salamandra. Molecular Phylogenetics and Evolution, 157, 107063. (doi: 10.1016/j.ympev.2020.107063) (PMID:33387650)

Yurchenko, Andrey A., Recknagel, Hans ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-2728-0690 and Elmer, Kathryn ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-9219-7001 (2020) Chromosome-level assembly of the common lizard (Zootoca vivipara) genome. Genome Biology and Evolution, 12(11), pp. 1953-1960. (doi: 10.1093/gbe/evaa161) (PMID:32835354) (PMCID:PMC7643610)

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Goudarzi, Forough, Hemami, Mahmoud-Reza, Rancilhac, Loïs, Malekian, Mansoureh, Fakheran, Sima, Elmer, Kathryn R. ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-9219-7001 and Steinfartz, Sebastian (2019) Geographic separation and genetic differentiation of populations are not coupled with niche differentiation in threatened Kaiser's spotted newt (Neurergus kaiseri). Scientific Reports, 9, 6239. (doi: 10.1038/s41598-019-41886-8) (PMID:30996234) (PMCID:PMC6470216)

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Lehtonen, T.K., Elmer, K.R. ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-9219-7001, Lappalainen, M. and Meyer, A. (2018) Genetic evidence for panmixia in a colony-breeding crater lake cichlid fish. Scientific Reports, 8, 1166. (doi: 10.1038/s41598-018-19266-5) (PMID:29348515) (PMCID:PMC5773479)

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Waddell, Emily H., Crotti, Marco, Lougheed, Stephen C., Cannatella, David C. and Elmer, Kathryn R. ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-9219-7001 (2018) Hierarchies of evolutionary radiation in the worlds most species rich vertebrate group the Neotropical Pristimantis leaf litter frogs. Systematics and Biodiversity, 16(8), pp. 807-819. (doi: 10.1080/14772000.2018.1503202)

Woodford, Luke, Bianco, Giovanni, Ivanova, Yoana, Dale, Maeve, Elmer, Kathryn ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-9219-7001, Rae, Fiona, Larcombe, Stephen D., Helm, Barbara, Ferguson, Heather M. ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-9625-5176 and Baldini, Francesco ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-5904-4070 (2018) Vector species-specific association between natural Wolbachia infections and avian malaria in black fly populations. Scientific Reports, 8, 4188. (doi: 10.1038/s41598-018-22550-z) (PMID:29520067) (PMCID:PMC5843599)

Jacobs, Arne, Womack, Robyn, Chen, Mel, Gharbi, Karim and Elmer, Kathryn R. ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-9219-7001 (2017) Significant synteny and colocalization of ecologically relevant quantitative trait loci within and across species of salmonid fishes. Genetics, 207(2), pp. 741-754. (doi: 10.1534/genetics.117.300093) (PMID:28760747)

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Torres-Dowdall, Julián, Pierotti, Michele E.R., Härer, Andreas, Karagic, Nidal, Woltering, Joost M., Henning, Frederico, Elmer, Kathryn R. ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-9219-7001 and Meyer, Axel (2017) Rapid and parallel adaptive evolution of the visual system of Neotropical Midas cichlid fishes. Molecular Biology and Evolution, 34(10), pp. 2469-2485. (doi: 10.1093/molbev/msx143) (PMID:28444297)

Elmer, K.R. ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-9219-7001 (2017) Barrier loci and progress towards evolutionary generalities. Journal of Evolutionary Biology, 30(8), pp. 1491-1493. (doi: 10.1111/jeb.13104) (PMID:28786186)

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Elmer, Kathryn R. ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-9219-7001 (2016) Genomic tools for new insights to variation, adaptation, and evolution in the salmonid fishes: a perspective for charr. Hydrobiologia, 783(1), pp. 191-208. (doi: 10.1007/s10750-015-2614-5)

Fruciano, Carmelo, Franchini, Paolo, Kovacova, Viera, Elmer, Kathryn ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-9219-7001, Henning, Frederico and Meyer, Axel (2016) Genetic linkage of distinct adaptive traits in sympatrically speciating crater lake cichlid fish. Nature Communications, 7, 12736. (doi: 10.1038/ncomms12736) (PMID:27597183) (PMCID:PMC5025864)

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Kusche, Henrik, Elmer, Kathryn R. ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-9219-7001 and Meyer, Axel (2015) Sympatric ecological divergence associated with a color polymorphism. BMC Biology, 13(1), 82. (doi: 10.1186/s12915-015-0192-7) (PMID:26437665) (PMCID:PMC4594650)

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Torres-Dowdall, J., Henning, F., Elmer, K.R. ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-9219-7001 and Meyer, A. (2015) Ecological and lineage-specific factors drive the molecular evolution of rhodopsin in cichlid fishes. Molecular Biology and Evolution, 32(11), pp. 2876-2882. (doi: 10.1093/molbev/msv159) (PMID:26187436)

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Franchini, Paolo, Fruciano, Carmelo, Spreitzer, Maria L., Jones, Julia C., Elmer, Kathryn R. ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-9219-7001, Henning, Frederico and Meyer, Axel (2014) Genomic architecture of ecologically divergent body shape in a pair of sympatric crater lake cichlid fishes. Molecular Ecology, 23(7), pp. 1828-1845. (doi: 10.1111/mec.12590)

Kusche, Henrik, Recknagel, Hans, Elmer, Kathryn Rebecca ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-9219-7001 and Meyer, Axel (2014) Crater lake cichlids individually specialize along the benthic-limnetic axis. Ecology and Evolution, 4(7), pp. 1127-1139. (doi: 10.1002/ece3.1015)

Elmer, Kathryn R. ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-9219-7001, Fan, Shaohua, Kusche, Henrik, Luise Spreitzer, Maria, Kautt, Andreas F., Franchini, Paolo and Meyer, Axel (2014) Parallel evolution of Nicaraguan crater lake cichlid fishes via non-parallel routes. Nature Communications, 5, (doi: 10.1038/ncomms6168)

Recknagel, H. ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-2728-0690, Elmer, K.R. ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-9219-7001, Noonan, B.P., Raselimanana, A.P., Meyer, A. and Vences, M. (2013) Multi-gene phylogeny of Madagascar’s plated lizards, Zonosaurus and Tracheloptychus (Squamata: Gerrhosauridae). Molecular Phylogenetics and Evolution, 69(3), pp. 1215-1221. (doi: 10.1016/j.ympev.2013.06.013)

Recknagel, H., Kusche, H., Elmer, K.R. ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-9219-7001 and Meyer, A. (2013) Two new endemic species in the Midas cichlid species complex from Nicaraguan crater lakes: Amphilophus tolteca and Amphilophus viridis (Perciformes, Cichlidae). Aqua, International Journal of Ichthyology, 19(4), pp. 207-224.

Manousaki, Tereza, Hull, Pincelli M., Kusche, Henrik, Machado-Schiaffino, Gonzalo, Franchini, Paolo, Harrod, Chris, Elmer, Kathryn R. ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-9219-7001 and Meyer, Axel (2013) Parsing parallel evolution: ecological divergence and differential gene expression in the adaptive radiations of thick-lipped Midas cichlid fishes from Nicaragua. Molecular Ecology, 22(3), pp. 650-669. (doi: 10.1111/mec.12034)

Elmer, Kathryn R. ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-9219-7001, Lehtonen, Topi K., Fan, Shaohua and Meyer, Axel (2013) Crater lake Colonization by Neotropical Cichlid Fishes. Evolution, 67(1), pp. 281-288. (doi: 10.1111/j.1558-5646.2012.01755.x)

Elmer, Kathryn R ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-9219-7001, Bonett, Ronald M, Wake, David B and Lougheed, Stephen C (2013) Early miocene origin and cryptic diversification of South American salamanders. BMC Evolutionary Biology, 13(59), (doi: 10.1186/1471-2148-13-59)

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Kautt, Andreas F., Elmer, Kathryn R. ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-9219-7001 and Meyer, Axel (2012) Genomic signatures of divergent selection and speciation patterns in a ‘natural experiment’, the young parallel radiations of Nicaraguan crater lake cichlid fishes. Molecular Ecology, 21(19), pp. 4770-4786. (doi: 10.1111/j.1365-294X.2012.05738.x)

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Fan, Shaohua, Elmer, Kathryn R. ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-9219-7001 and Meyer, Axel (2012) Genomics of adaptation and speciation in cichlid fishes: recent advances and analyses in African and Neotropical lineages. Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences, 367(1587), pp. 385-394. (doi: 10.1098/rstb.2011.0247)

Fan, Shaohua, Elmer, Kathryn R. ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-9219-7001 and Meyer, Axel (2011) Positive Darwinian selection drives the evolution of the morphology-related gene, EPCAM, in particularly species-rich lineages of African Cichlid fishes. Journal of Molecular Evolution, 73(1-2), pp. 1-9. (doi: 10.1007/s00239-011-9452-5)

Elmer, Kathryn R. ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-9219-7001 and Meyer, Axel (2011) Adaptation in the age of ecological genomics: insights from parallelism and convergence. Trends in Ecology and Evolution, 26(6), pp. 298-306. (doi: 10.1016/j.tree.2011.02.008)

Angienda, Paul O., Lee, Hyuk Je, Elmer, Kathryn R. ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-9219-7001, Abila, Romulus, Waindi, Eliud N. and Meyer, Axel (2011) Genetic structure and gene flow in an endangered native tilapia fish (Oreochromis esculentus) compared to invasive Nile tilapia (Oreochromis niloticus) in Yala swamp, East Africa. Conservation Genetics, 12(1), pp. 243-255. (doi: 10.1007/s10592-010-0136-2)

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Elmer, K.R. ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-9219-7001, Fan, S., Gunter, H.M., Jones, J.C., Boekhoff, S., Kuraku, S. and Meyer, A. (2010) Rapid evolution and selection inferred from the transcriptomes of sympatric crater lake cichlid fishes. Molecular Ecology, 19(Sup s1), pp. 197-211. (doi: 10.1111/j.1365-294X.2009.04488.x)

Elmer, K.R. ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-9219-7001, Lehtonen, T.K., Kautt, A.F., Harrod, C. and Meyer, A. (2010) Rapid sympatric ecological differentiation of crater lake cichlid fishes within historic times. BMC Biology, 8(1), p. 60. (doi: 10.1186/1741-7007-8-60)

Elmer, Kathryn R. ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-9219-7001, Lehtonen, Topi K. and Meyer, Axel (2009) Color assortative mating contributes to sympatric divergence of neotropical cichlid fish. Evolution, 63(10), pp. 2750-2757. (doi: 10.1111/j.1558-5646.2009.00736.x)

Elmer, K.R. ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-9219-7001, Reggio, C., Wirth, T., Verheyen, E., Salzburger, W. and Meyer, A. (2009) Pleistocene desiccation in East Africa bottlenecked but did not extirpate the adaptive radiation of Lake Victoria haplochromine cichlid fishes. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America, 106(32), pp. 13404-13409. (doi: 10.1073/pnas.0902299106)

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Elmer, Kathryn R. ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-9219-7001 and Cannatella, David C. (2008) Three new species of leaflitter frogs from the upper Amazon forests: cryptic diversity within Pristimantis “ockendeni” (Anura: Strabomantidae) in Ecuador. Zootaxa, 1784, pp. 11-38.

Elmer, Kathryn R. ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-9219-7001, Van Houdt, Jeroen K.J., Meyer, Axel and Volckaert, Filip A.M. (2008) Population genetic structure of North American burbot (Lota lota maculosa) across the Nearctic and at its contact zone with Eurasian burbot (Lota lota lota). Canadian Journal of Fisheries and Aquatic Sciences, 65(11), pp. 2412-2426. (doi: 10.1139/F08-173)

Elmer, K.R. ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-9219-7001, Dávila, J.A. and Lougheed, S.C. (2007) Applying new inter-individual approaches to assess fine-scale population genetic diversity in a neotropical frog, Eleutherodactylus ockendeni. Heredity, 99(5), pp. 506-515. (doi: 10.1038/sj.hdy.6801025)

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Elmer, Kathryn R. ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-9219-7001, Davilia, Jose A. and Lougheed, Stephen C. (2006) Isolation of simple and compound polymorphic tetranucleotide microsatellites for the neotropical leaflitter frog Eleutherodactylus ockendeni (Leptodactylidae). Molecular Ecology Notes, 6(3), pp. 891-893. (doi: 10.1111/j.1471-8286.2006.01389.x)

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Grants

Grants and Awards listed are those received whilst working with the University of Glasgow.

  • Investigating Introgressive Hybridisation Between UK Populations of Vendace (Coregonus albula) and European Whitefish (Coregonus lavaretus)
    Fisheries Society of the British Isles
    2025 - 2026
     
  • Sex-specific fitness landscapes in the evolution of egg-laying vs live-birth
    Natural Environment Research Council
    2024 - 2028
     
  • How to lose your gut: Genomic insights from parasitism loss in lampreys
    Leverhulme Trust
    2020 - 2023
     
  • Using reproductive mode evolution to reveal its genetic basis.
    Natural Environment Research Council
    2020 - 2023
     
  • Genomic selection on live-bearing and egg-laying
    Leverhulme Trust
    2020 - 2023
     
  • The evolutionary history and genomic basis of the unique European lamprey diversity in Loch Lomond.
    Glasgow Natural History Society
    2020 - 2021
     
  • Evolutionary genomics of lamprey in Scotland
    The Carnegie Trust for the Universities of Scotland
    2019 - 2020
     
  • Liolaemus sequencing
    Centro Científico Tecnológico CENPAT
    2019 - 2020
     
  • The effect of different reproductive trajectories on maternal telomere length.
    Glasgow Natural History Society
    2017 - 2018
     
  • The genomic signature of contemporary divergence of European whitefish in Lake Constance
    Fisheries Society of the British Isles
    2016 - 2016
     
  • From egg-laying to live-bearing: Unravelling the genetics of a major evolutionary transition
    Natural Environment Research Council
    2016 - 2019
     
  • Genetics Society Hereditary Fieldwork Grant
    The Genetics Society
    2015 - 2015
     
  • Environmental and genomic drivers of diversity in Scottish fishes of high natural heritage value
    The Carnegie Trust for the Universities of Scotland
    2015 - 2016
     
  • Genome-wide phylogenetic analysis of a diverse Palaearctic salamander lineage, Salamandra spp.
    The Linnean Society of London
    2015 - 2016
     
  • Imaging chromatophore ultrastructure in a colour polymorphic lineage of European Fire Salamander (Salamandra salamandra)
    Glasgow Natural History Society
    2014 - 2015
     
  • Colouration biodiversity within and across environments: an example from the adaptive radiation of fire salamanders
    The Royal Society
    2014 - 2014
     
  • GEN ECOL ADAPT: Adaptation genomics of trophic polymorphism
    European Commission
    2013 - 2016
     
  • The role of gene expression in phenotypic plasticity and adaptive divergence (ISSF Catalyst)
    Wellcome Trust
    2013 - 2015
     

Supervision

  • Bacigalupo Bacigalupo, Antonella Eugenia
    Genomic basis for adaptation in triatomines, vectors of Chagas disease
  • Denizli, Irem
    Uncovering genomic basis of seasonal biology
  • Ewing, Scott Fraser
    Characterising circadian and photoreceptor signalling pathway mutants and the effect of novel light treatments on Arabidopsis thaliana and Ocimum basilicum.
  • Philip, Joris
    Molecular mechanisms of repeated adaptive divergences in salmonid fishes
  • Strowbridge, Nicholas Robert
    Genetic mechanisms of amphibian colour pattern and toxicity in the natural environment
  • Uzzell, Mary
    Partitioning the Roles of Genetics and Life History in Reproductive Biology
  • Yerli Pineda, Mar
    Harvest-associated selection in ornamental Amazonian fishes
  • Young, Jessica
    How do urban landscapes influence animal dispersal and ecological connectivity?

Teaching

"Ecological Speciation". This is a recommended option for BSc Honours in Marine & Freshwater Biology, MSci in Marine & Freshwater Biology; BSc Honours in Zoology, MSci in Zoology.

Contributing lectures to undergraduate "Evolutionary Biology" and "Animal Diversity"

Research datasets

Jump to: 2024 | 2023 | 2022 | 2021 | 2020 | 2019 | 2018
Number of items: 23.

2024

Smout, J. L., Elmer, K. R. and McLaughlin, M. (2024) Common lizard primary oviduct cell culture: A model system for the genetic and cellular basis of oviparity and viviparity. [Data Collection]

Hunter, D. and Elmer, K. (2024) Parity-specific differences in spatial genetics and dispersal in the common lizard. [Data Collection]

Fenton, S. and Elmer, K. (2024) Ecological opportunity leads to higher diversity and probability of trophic specialisation in Arctic charr. [Data Collection]

Hussain, R., Recknagel, H. and Elmer, K. (2024) Higher locomotor costs of pregnancy in viviparous compared to oviparous common lizards (Zootoca vivipara). [Data Collection]

Crotti, M., Yohannes, E., Winfield, I., Lyle, A., Adams, C. and Elmer, K. (2024) Rapid adaptation through genomic and epigenomic responses following translocations in an endangered salmonid. [Data Collection]

2023

Tiddy, I. and Elmer, K. (2023) Environmental correlates of adaptive diversification in post-glacial freshwater fishes. [Data Collection]

Elmer, K. , Bean, C. , Adams, C. , Jacobs, A. and Fenton, S. (2023) The genomic underpinnings of head and body shape morphology across Arctic charr ecomorph pairs. [Data Collection]

Recknagel, H. , Elmer, K. and Layton, M. (2023) Common lizard microhabitat selection varies by sex, parity mode, and colouration. [Data Collection]

2022

Recknagel, H. , Leitao, H. and Elmer, K. (2022) Genetic basis and expression of ventral colour in polymorphic common lizards. [Data Collection]

2021

Crespel, A., Schneider, K., Miller, T., Racz, A., Jacobs, A., Lindstrom, J. , Elmer, K. and Killen, S. (2021) Genomic basis of fishing-associated selection varies with population density. [Data Collection]

Crotti, M., Yohannes, E., Winfield, I., Lyle, A., Adams, C. and Elmer, K. (2021) Rapid adaptation through genomic and epigenomic responses following translocations in an endangered salmonid. [Data Collection]

Recknagel, H. , Carruthers, M., Yurchenko, A. A., Nokhbatolfoghahai, M., Kamenos, N. , Bain, M. and Elmer, K. (2021) The functional genetic architecture of egg-laying and live-bearing reproduction in common lizards. [Data Collection]

Burgon, J. D., Vences, M., Steinfartz, S., Bogaerts, S., Bonato, L., Donaire-Barroso, D., Martínez-Solano, I., Velo-Antón, G., Vieites, D. R., Mable, B. and Elmer, K. (2021) Phylogenomic inference of species and subspecies diversity in the Palearctic salamander genus Salamandra. [Data Collection]

2020

Jacobs, A. and Elmer, K. (2020) Alternative splicing and gene expression play contrasting roles in the parallel phenotypic evolution of a salmonid fish. [Data Collection]

Crotti, M., Beans, C. W., Gowans, A. R. D., Winfield, I. J., Wanzenboeck, J., Bondarencko, G., Praebel, K., Adams, C. E. and Elmer, K. (2020) Complex and divergent histories gave rise to genome-wide divergence patterns amongst European whitefish (Coregonus lavaretus). [Data Collection]

Crotti, M., Adams, C. , Etheridge, E., Bean, C. , Gowans, A., Knudsen, R., Lyle, A., Maitland, P., Winfield, I., Elmer, K. and Præbel, K. (2020) Geographic hierarchical population genetic structuring in British European whitefish (Coregonus lavaretus) and its implications for conservation. [Data Collection]

Yurchenko, A., Recknagel, H. and Elmer, K. (2020) Chromosome-level assembly of the common lizard (Zootoca vivipara) genome. [Data Collection] (Unpublished)

Crotti, M., Adams, C. and Elmer, K. (2020) Population genomic SNPs from epigenetic RADs: gaining genetic and epigenetic data from a single established next-generation sequencing approach. [Data Collection]

Burgon, J. D., Vieites, D. R., Jacobs, A., Weidt, S., Gunter, H., Steinfartz, S., Burgess, K., Mable, B. and Elmer, K. (2020) Functional colour genes and signals of selection in colour polymorphic salamanders. [Data Collection]

Schneider, K., White, T., Mitchell, S., Adams, C. , Reeve, R. and Elmer, K. (2020) Pitfalls and virtues of population genetic summary statistics: detecting selective sweeps in recent divergences. [Data Collection]

Jacobs, A., Carruthers, M., Yurchenko, A., Gordeeva, N. V., Alekseyev, S. S., Hooker, O., Leong, J. S., Minkley, D. R., Rondeau, E. B., Koop, B. F., Adams, C. and Elmer, K. (2020) Parallelism in eco-morphology and gene expression despite variable evolutionary and genomic backgrounds in a Holarctic fish. [Data Collection]

2019

Schneider, K., Adams, C. and Elmer, K. (2019) Parallel selection on ecologically relevant gene functions in the transcriptomes of highly diversifying salmonids. [Data Collection]

2018

Jacobs, A., Carruthers, M., Eckmann, R., Yohannes, E., Adams, C. , Behrmann-Godel, J. and Elmer, K. (2018) Rapid niche expansion by selection on functional genomic variation after ecosystem recovery. [Data Collection]

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