Dr Kevin Parsons

  • Senior Lecturer (Evolution & Diversity)

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2025

Parsons, Kevin ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-3355-3587, Adams, Colin ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-2470-9754 and Bean, Colin ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-3502-0995 (2025) Foraging and thermally-induced phenotypic plasticity interact in the most northerly distributed freshwater fish. Biology Letters, (Accepted for Publication)

Ouellet-Fagg, Christine L., Easton, Anne A., Parsons, Kevin J. ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-3355-3587, Danzmann, Roy G. and Ferguson, Moira M. (2025) Complex and dynamic gene-by-age and gene-by-environment interactions underlie functional morphological variation in adaptive divergence in Arctic Charr (Salvelinus alpinus). Evolution and Development, 27(1), e70000. (doi: 10.1111/ede.70000) (PMID:39723482) (PMCID:PMC11670044)

2024

Stansfield, Corin and Parsons, Kevin ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-3355-3587 (2024) Developmental bias as a cause and consequence of adaptive radiation and divergence. Frontiers in Ecology and Evolution, 12, 1453566. (doi: 10.3389/fcell.2024.1453566)

Brachmann, Matthew ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-3870-0996 and Parsons, Kevin ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-3355-3587 (2024) Adaptive divergence and radiations: insights from evo-devo. In: Reference Module in Life Sciences. Elsevier. ISBN 9780128096338 (doi: 10.1016/B978-0-443-15750-9.00012-4)

Smith, Bethany, Costa, Ana P.B., Kristjansson, Bjarni K. and Parsons, Kevin J. ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-3355-3587 (2024) Experimental evidence for adaptive divergence in response to a warmed habitat reveals roles for morphology, allometry, and parasite resistance. Ecology and Evolution, 14(2), e10907. (doi: 10.1002/ece3.10907) (PMID:38333102) (PMCID:PMC10850817)

2023

McWhinnie, Kirsty, Negi, Deepti, Tanner, Elizabeth and Parsons, Kevin J. ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-3355-3587 (2023) Functional trait plasticity diverges between sexes in African cichlids: A contribution toward ecological sexual dimorphism? Ecology and Evolution, 13(11), e10702. (doi: 10.1002/ece3.10702) (PMID:38034329) (PMCID:PMC10682861)

Pilakouta, N. et al. (2023) Testing the predictability of morphological evolution in contrasting thermal environments. Evolution, 77(1), pp. 239-253. (doi: 10.1093/evolut/qpac018) (PMID:36622731)

Pilakouta, Natalie ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-8503-520X, Killen, Shaun S. ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-4949-3988, Kristjánsson, Bjarni K., Skúlason, Skúli, Lindström, Jan ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-5630-6680, Metcalfe, Neil B. ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-1970-9349 and Parsons, Kevin J. ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-3355-3587 (2023) Geothermal stickleback populations prefer cool water despite multigenerational exposure to a warm environment. Ecology and Evolution, 13(1), e9654. (doi: 10.1002/ece3.9654) (PMID:36644700) (PMCID:PMC9831902)

Pilakouta, N. et al. (2023) A warmer environment can reduce sociability in an ectotherm. Global Change Biology, 29(1), pp. 206-214. (doi: 10.1111/gcb.16451) (PMID:36259414)

2022

Brachmann, Matthew K. ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-3870-0996, Parsons, Kevin ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-3355-3587, Skúlason, Skúli, Gaggiotti, Oscar and Ferguson, Moira (2022) Variation in the genomic basis of parallel phenotypic and ecological divergence in benthic and pelagic morphs of Icelandic Arctic charr (Salvelinus alpinus). Molecular Ecology, 31(18), pp. 4688-4706. (doi: 10.1111/mec.16625) (PMID:35861579)

McWhinnie, Kirsty, Gibson, Jeremy, Gislason, Magnus, Tanner, Elizabeth ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-2257-0218, Windmill, James, Albertson, R. Craig and Parsons, Kevin ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-3355-3587 (2022) Assessing the levels of functional adaptation: finite element analysis reveals species, hybrid, and sexual variation in the biomechanics of African cichlid mandibles. Evolutionary Biology, 49(2), pp. 205-220. (doi: 10.1007/s11692-022-09566-0)

Thambithurai, Davide, Racz, Anita, Lindstrom, Jan ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-5630-6680, Parsons, Kevin J. ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-3355-3587 and Killen, Shaun S. ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-4949-3988 (2022) Simulated trapping and trawling exert similar selection on fish morphology. Ecology and Evolution, 12(2), e8596. (doi: 10.1002/ece3.8596) (PMID:35169454) (PMCID:PMC8840878)

2021

Crespel, Amélie, Miller, Toby, Rácz, Anita, Parsons, Kevin ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-3355-3587, Lindström, Jan ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-5630-6680 and Killen, Shaun ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-4949-3988 (2021) Density influences the heritability and genetic correlations of fish behaviour under trawling-associated selection. Evolutionary Applications, 14(10), pp. 2527-2540. (doi: 10.1111/eva.13279) (PMCID:PMC8549612)

Campbell, Calum S., Adams, Colin E. ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-2470-9754, Bean, Colin W. ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-3502-0995, Pilakouta, Natalie ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-8503-520X and Parsons, Kevin J. ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-3355-3587 (2021) Evolvability under climate change: bone development and shape plasticity are heritable and correspond with performance in Arctic charr (Salvelinus alpinus). Evolution and Development, 23(4), pp. 333-350. (doi: 10.1111/ede.12379) (PMID:34010514)

Parsons, Kevin J. ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-3355-3587 (2021) Conservation biology meets evo-devo: how understanding the emergence of variation can inform its management. Evolution and Development, 23(4), pp. 269-272. (doi: 10.1111/ede.12389) (PMID:34478229)

Brachmann, Matthew K. ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-3870-0996, Parsons, Kevin ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-3355-3587, Skúlason, Skúli and Ferguson, Moira M. (2021) The interaction of resource use and gene flow on the phenotypic divergence of benthic and pelagic morphs of Icelandic Arctic charr (Salvelinus alpinus). Ecology and Evolution, 11(12), pp. 7315-7334. (doi: 10.1002/ece3.7563) (PMID:34188815) (PMCID:PMC8216915)

2020

Parsons, Kevin ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-3355-3587, Rigg, Anders, Conith, A.J., Kitchener, A. C., Harris, S. and Zhu, Haoyu (2020) Skull morphology diverges between urban and rural populations of red foxes mirroring patterns of domestication and macroevolution. Proceedings of the Royal Society of London Series B: Biological Sciences, 287(1928), 20200763. (doi: 10.1098/rspb.2020.0763) (PMID:32486981) (PMCID:PMC7341913)

Pilakouta, Natalie ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-8503-520X, Killen, Shaun S. ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-4949-3988, Kristjánsson, Bjarni N., Skúlason, Skúli, Lindström, Jan ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-5630-6680, Metcalfe, Neil B. ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-1970-9349 and Parsons, Kevin J. ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-3355-3587 (2020) Multigenerational exposure to elevated temperatures leads to a reduction in standard metabolic rate in the wild. Functional Ecology, 34(6), pp. 1205-1214. (doi: 10.1111/1365-2435.13538) (PMID:32612318) (PMCID:PMC7318562)

2019

Skulason, S. et al. (2019) A way forward with eco evo devo: an extended theory of resource polymorphism with postglacial fishes as model systems. Biological Reviews, 94(5), pp. 1786-1808. (doi: 10.1111/brv.12534) (PMID:31215138) (PMCID:PMC6852119)

Parsons, Kevin J. ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-3355-3587, McWhinnie, Kirsty, Pilakouta, Natalie ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-8503-520X and Walker, Lynsey (2019) Does phenotypic plasticity initiate developmental bias? Evolution and Development, (doi: 10.1111/ede.12304) (PMID:31348849) (PMCID:PMC7004013)

McWhinnie, Kirsty and Parsons, Kevin J. ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-3355-3587 (2019) Shaping up? A direct comparison between 2D and low-cost 3D shape analysis using African Cichlid mandibles. Environmental Biology of Fishes, 102(7), pp. 927-938. (doi: 10.1007/s10641-019-00879-2)

Armstrong, Tiffany, Khursigara, Alexis J., Killen, Shaun S. ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-4949-3988, Fearnley, Hannah, Parsons, Kevin J. ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-3355-3587 and Esbaugh, Andrew J. (2019) Oil exposure alters social group cohesion in fish. Scientific Reports, 9, 13520. (doi: 10.1038/s41598-019-49994-1) (PMID:31534177) (PMCID:PMC6751191)

Thambithurai, Davide, Crespel, Amelie, Norin, Tommy, Racz, Anita, Lindstrom, Jan ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-5630-6680, Parsons, Kevin J. ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-3355-3587 and Killen, Shaun S. ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-4949-3988 (2019) Hypoxia alters vulnerability to capture and the potential for trait-based selection in a scaled-down trawl fishery. Conservation Physiology, 7(1), coz082. (doi: 10.1093/conphys/coz082) (PMID:31803472) (PMCID:PMC6880855)

2018

Thambithurai, Davide, Hollins, Jack, Van Leeuwen, Travis, Rácz, Anita, Lindström, Jan ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-5630-6680, Parsons, Kevin ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-3355-3587 and Killen, Shaun S. ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-4949-3988 (2018) Shoal size as a key determinant of vulnerability to capture under a simulated fishery scenario. Ecology and Evolution, 8(13), pp. 6505-6514. (doi: 10.1002/ece3.4107) (PMID:30038752) (PMCID:PMC6053581)

Hollins, Jack, Thambithurai, Davide, Köeck, Barbara ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-7142-364X, Crespel, Amelie, Bailey, David M. ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-0824-8823, Cooke, Steven J., Lindström, Jan ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-5630-6680, Parsons, Kevin J. ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-3355-3587 and Killen, Shaun S. ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-4949-3988 (2018) A physiological perspective on fisheries-induced evolution. Evolutionary Applications, 11(5), pp. 561-576. (doi: 10.1111/eva.12597) (PMID:29875803) (PMCID:PMC5978952)

Parsons, Kevin J. ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-3355-3587, Son, Young H., Crespel, Amelie, Thambithurai, Davide, Killen, Shaun ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-4949-3988, Harris, Matthew P. and Albertson, R. Craig (2018) Conserved but flexible modularity in the zebrafish skull: implications for craniofacial evolvability. Proceedings of the Royal Society of London Series B: Biological Sciences, 285(1877), 20172671. (doi: 10.1098/rspb.2017.2671) (PMID:29669899) (PMCID:PMC5936725)

2017

Campbell, Calum S., Adams, Colin E. ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-2470-9754, Bean, Colin W. ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-3502-0995 and Parsons, Kevin J. ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-3355-3587 (2017) Conservation evo-devo: preserving biodiversity by understanding its origins. Trends in Ecology and Evolution, 32(10), pp. 746-759. (doi: 10.1016/j.tree.2017.07.002) (PMID:28797609)

2016

Parsons, Kevin J. ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-3355-3587, Concannon, Moira, Navon, Dina, Wang, Jason, Ea, Ilene, Groveas, Kiran, Campbell, Calum and Albertson, R. Craig (2016) Foraging environment determines the genetic architecture and evolutionary potential of trophic morphology in cichlid fishes. Molecular Ecology, 25(24), pp. 6012-6023. (doi: 10.1111/mec.13801) (PMID:27516345)

Parsons, Kevin J. ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-3355-3587 (2016) Adaptive radiations: Insights from Evo-Devo. In: Kliman, Richard M. (ed.) Encyclopedia of Evolutionary Biology. Elsevier, pp. 37-45. ISBN 9780128004265 (doi: 10.1016/B978-0-12-800049-6.00141-4)

2015

Smith, Andrew J., Nelson-Maney, Nathan, Parsons, Kevin J. ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-3355-3587, Cooper, W. James and Albertson, R. Craig (2015) Body shape evolution in sunfishes: divergent paths to accelerated rates of speciation in the centrarchidae. Evolutionary Biology, 42(3), pp. 283-295. (doi: 10.1007/s11692-015-9322-y)

Parsons, Kevin ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-3355-3587, Wang, Jason, Anderson, Graeme and Albertson, R. Craig (2015) Nested levels of adaptive divergence: the genetic basis of craniofacial divergence and ecological sexual dimorphism. G3: Genes, Genomes, Genetics, 5(8), pp. 1613-1624. (doi: 10.1534/g3.115.018226) (PMID:26038365) (PMCID:PMC4528318)

2014

Albertson, R.Craig, Powder, Kara E., Hu, Yinan, Coyle, Kaitlin P., Roberts, Reade B. and Parsons, Kevin J. ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-3355-3587 (2014) Genetic basis of continuous variation in the levels and modular inheritance of pigmentation in cichlid fishes. Molecular Ecology, 23(21), pp. 5135-5150. (doi: 10.1111/mec.12900)

Hu, Yinan, Parsons, Kevin J. ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-3355-3587 and Albertson, R. Craig (2014) Evolvability of the cichlid jaw: new tools provide insights into the genetic basis of phenotypic integration. Evolutionary Biology, 44(1), pp. 145-153. (doi: 10.1007/s11692-013-9254-3)

Küttner, Eva, Parsons, Kevin J. ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-3355-3587, Easton, Anne A., Skúlason, Skuli, Danzmann, Roy G. and Ferguson, Moira M. (2014) Hidden genetic variation evolves with ecological specialization: the genetic basis of phenotypic plasticity in Arctic charr ecomorphs. Evolution and Development, 16(4), pp. 247-257. (doi: 10.1111/ede.12087) (PMID:24920458)

Parsons, Kevin J. ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-3355-3587, Trent Taylor, A., Powder, Kara E. and Albertson, R. Craig (2014) Wnt signalling underlies the evolution of new phenotypes and craniofacial variability in Lake Malawi cichlids. Nature Communications, 5, p. 3629. (doi: 10.1038/ncomms4629)

2013

Parsons, K.J. ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-3355-3587 and Albertson, R.C. (2013) Unifying and generalizing the two strands of evo-devo. Trends in Ecology and Evolution, 28(10), pp. 584-591. (doi: 10.1016/j.tree.2013.06.009)

2012

Parsons, K.J. ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-3355-3587, Márquez, E. and Albertson, R.C. (2012) Constraint and opportunity: the genetic basis and evolution of modularity in the cichlid mandible. American Naturalist, 179(1), pp. 64-78. (doi: 10.1086/663200)

Brzozowski, F., Roscoe, J., Parsons, K. ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-3355-3587 and Albertson, C. (2012) Sexually dimorphic levels of color trait integration and the resolution of sexual conflict in Lake Malawi cichlids. Journal of Experimental Zoology Part B: Molecular and Developmental Evolution, 318(4), pp. 268-278. (doi: 10.1002/jez.b.22443)

2011

Parsons, K.J. ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-3355-3587, Andreeva, V., Cooper, W.J., Yelick, P.C. and Albertson, R.C. (2011) Morphogenesis of the zebrafish jaw: development beyond the embryo. Methods in Cell Biology, 101, pp. 225-248. (doi: 10.1016/B978-0-12-387036-0.00011-6)

Parsons, K.J. ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-3355-3587, Cooper, W.J. and Albertson, R.C. (2011) Modularity of the oral jaws is linked to repeated changes in the craniofacial shape of African cichlids. International Journal of Evolutionary Biology, 2011, pp. 1-10. (doi: 10.4061/2011/641501)

Parsons, K.J. ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-3355-3587, Sheets, H.D., Skulason, S. and Ferguson, M.M. (2011) Phenotypic plasticity, heterochrony and ontogenetic repatterning during juvenile development of divergent Arctic charr (Salvelinus alpinus). Journal of Evolutionary Biology, 24(8), pp. 1640-1652. (doi: 10.1111/j.1420-9101.2011.02301.x)

Parsons, K.J. ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-3355-3587, Son, Y.H. and Albertson, R.C. (2011) Hybridization promotes evolvability in African cichlids: connections between transgressive segregation and phenotypic integration. Evolutionary Biology, 38(3), pp. 306-315. (doi: 10.1007/s11692-011-9126-7)

2010

Cooper, W.J., Parsons, K. ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-3355-3587, McIntyre, A., Kern, B., McGee-Moore, A. and Albertson, R.C. (2010) Bentho-pelagic divergence of cichlid feeding architecture was prodigious and consistent during multiple adaptive radiations within African rift-lakes. PLoS ONE, 5(3), e9551. (doi: 10.1371/journal.pone.0009551) (PMID:20221400) (PMCID:PMC2833203)

Parsons, K.J. ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-3355-3587, Skúlason, S. and Ferguson, M. (2010) Morphological variation over ontogeny and environments in resource polymorphic arctic charr (Salvelinus alpinus). Evolution and Development, 12(3), pp. 246-257. (doi: 10.1111/j.1525-142X.2010.00410.x)

2009

Parsons, K.J. ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-3355-3587 and Albertson, R.C. (2009) Roles for Bmp4 and CaM1 in shaping the jaw: evo-devo and beyond. Annual Review of Genetics, 43(1), pp. 369-388. (doi: 10.1146/annurev-genet-102808-114917)

Parsons, K.J. ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-3355-3587, Cooper, W.J. and Albertson, R.C. (2009) Limits of principal components analysis for producing a common trait space: implications for inferring selection, contingency, and chance in evolution. PLoS ONE, 4(11), e7957. (doi: 10.1371/journal.pone.0007957) (PMID:19956767) (PMCID:PMC2776347)

2008

Riopel, C., Robinson, B.W. and Parsons, K.J. ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-3355-3587 (2008) Analyzing nested variation in the body form of Lepomid sunfishes. Environmental Biology of Fishes, 82(4), pp. 409-420. (doi: 10.1007/s10641-007-9303-9)

2007

Parsons, K.J. ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-3355-3587 and Robinson, B.W. (2007) Foraging performance of diet-induced morphotypes in pumpkinseed sunfish (Lepomis gibbosus) favours resource polymorphism. Journal of Evolutionary Biology, 20(2), pp. 673-684. (doi: 10.1111/j.1420-9101.2006.01249.x)

2006

Parsons, K.J. ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-3355-3587 and Robinson, B.W. (2006) Replicated evolution of integrated plastic responses during early adaptive divergence. Evolution, 60(4), pp. 801-813. (doi: 10.1111/j.0014-3820.2006.tb01158.x)

2005

Gray, S.M., Robinson, B.W. and Parsons, K.J. ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-3355-3587 (2005) Testing alternative explanations of character shifts against ecological character displacement in brook sticklebacks (Culaea inconstans) that coexist with ninespine sticklebacks (Pungitius pungitius). Oecologia, 146(1), pp. 25-35. (doi: 10.1007/s00442-005-0184-3)

2003

Parsons, K.J. ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-3355-3587, Robinson, B.W. and Hrbek, T. (2003) Getting into shape: an empirical comparison of traditional truss-based morphometric methods with a newer geometric method applied to New World cichlids. Environmental Biology of Fishes, 67(4), pp. 417-431. (doi: 10.1023/A:1025895317253)

2002

Robinson, B.W. and Parsons, K.J. ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-3355-3587 (2002) Changing times, spaces, and faces: tests and implications of adaptive morphological plasticity in the fishes of northern postglacial lakes. Canadian Journal of Fisheries and Aquatic Sciences, 59(11), pp. 1819-1833. (doi: 10.1139/F02-144)

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Articles

Parsons, Kevin ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-3355-3587, Adams, Colin ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-2470-9754 and Bean, Colin ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-3502-0995 (2025) Foraging and thermally-induced phenotypic plasticity interact in the most northerly distributed freshwater fish. Biology Letters, (Accepted for Publication)

Ouellet-Fagg, Christine L., Easton, Anne A., Parsons, Kevin J. ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-3355-3587, Danzmann, Roy G. and Ferguson, Moira M. (2025) Complex and dynamic gene-by-age and gene-by-environment interactions underlie functional morphological variation in adaptive divergence in Arctic Charr (Salvelinus alpinus). Evolution and Development, 27(1), e70000. (doi: 10.1111/ede.70000) (PMID:39723482) (PMCID:PMC11670044)

Stansfield, Corin and Parsons, Kevin ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-3355-3587 (2024) Developmental bias as a cause and consequence of adaptive radiation and divergence. Frontiers in Ecology and Evolution, 12, 1453566. (doi: 10.3389/fcell.2024.1453566)

Smith, Bethany, Costa, Ana P.B., Kristjansson, Bjarni K. and Parsons, Kevin J. ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-3355-3587 (2024) Experimental evidence for adaptive divergence in response to a warmed habitat reveals roles for morphology, allometry, and parasite resistance. Ecology and Evolution, 14(2), e10907. (doi: 10.1002/ece3.10907) (PMID:38333102) (PMCID:PMC10850817)

McWhinnie, Kirsty, Negi, Deepti, Tanner, Elizabeth and Parsons, Kevin J. ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-3355-3587 (2023) Functional trait plasticity diverges between sexes in African cichlids: A contribution toward ecological sexual dimorphism? Ecology and Evolution, 13(11), e10702. (doi: 10.1002/ece3.10702) (PMID:38034329) (PMCID:PMC10682861)

Pilakouta, N. et al. (2023) Testing the predictability of morphological evolution in contrasting thermal environments. Evolution, 77(1), pp. 239-253. (doi: 10.1093/evolut/qpac018) (PMID:36622731)

Pilakouta, Natalie ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-8503-520X, Killen, Shaun S. ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-4949-3988, Kristjánsson, Bjarni K., Skúlason, Skúli, Lindström, Jan ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-5630-6680, Metcalfe, Neil B. ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-1970-9349 and Parsons, Kevin J. ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-3355-3587 (2023) Geothermal stickleback populations prefer cool water despite multigenerational exposure to a warm environment. Ecology and Evolution, 13(1), e9654. (doi: 10.1002/ece3.9654) (PMID:36644700) (PMCID:PMC9831902)

Pilakouta, N. et al. (2023) A warmer environment can reduce sociability in an ectotherm. Global Change Biology, 29(1), pp. 206-214. (doi: 10.1111/gcb.16451) (PMID:36259414)

Brachmann, Matthew K. ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-3870-0996, Parsons, Kevin ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-3355-3587, Skúlason, Skúli, Gaggiotti, Oscar and Ferguson, Moira (2022) Variation in the genomic basis of parallel phenotypic and ecological divergence in benthic and pelagic morphs of Icelandic Arctic charr (Salvelinus alpinus). Molecular Ecology, 31(18), pp. 4688-4706. (doi: 10.1111/mec.16625) (PMID:35861579)

McWhinnie, Kirsty, Gibson, Jeremy, Gislason, Magnus, Tanner, Elizabeth ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-2257-0218, Windmill, James, Albertson, R. Craig and Parsons, Kevin ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-3355-3587 (2022) Assessing the levels of functional adaptation: finite element analysis reveals species, hybrid, and sexual variation in the biomechanics of African cichlid mandibles. Evolutionary Biology, 49(2), pp. 205-220. (doi: 10.1007/s11692-022-09566-0)

Thambithurai, Davide, Racz, Anita, Lindstrom, Jan ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-5630-6680, Parsons, Kevin J. ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-3355-3587 and Killen, Shaun S. ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-4949-3988 (2022) Simulated trapping and trawling exert similar selection on fish morphology. Ecology and Evolution, 12(2), e8596. (doi: 10.1002/ece3.8596) (PMID:35169454) (PMCID:PMC8840878)

Crespel, Amélie, Miller, Toby, Rácz, Anita, Parsons, Kevin ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-3355-3587, Lindström, Jan ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-5630-6680 and Killen, Shaun ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-4949-3988 (2021) Density influences the heritability and genetic correlations of fish behaviour under trawling-associated selection. Evolutionary Applications, 14(10), pp. 2527-2540. (doi: 10.1111/eva.13279) (PMCID:PMC8549612)

Campbell, Calum S., Adams, Colin E. ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-2470-9754, Bean, Colin W. ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-3502-0995, Pilakouta, Natalie ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-8503-520X and Parsons, Kevin J. ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-3355-3587 (2021) Evolvability under climate change: bone development and shape plasticity are heritable and correspond with performance in Arctic charr (Salvelinus alpinus). Evolution and Development, 23(4), pp. 333-350. (doi: 10.1111/ede.12379) (PMID:34010514)

Parsons, Kevin J. ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-3355-3587 (2021) Conservation biology meets evo-devo: how understanding the emergence of variation can inform its management. Evolution and Development, 23(4), pp. 269-272. (doi: 10.1111/ede.12389) (PMID:34478229)

Brachmann, Matthew K. ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-3870-0996, Parsons, Kevin ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-3355-3587, Skúlason, Skúli and Ferguson, Moira M. (2021) The interaction of resource use and gene flow on the phenotypic divergence of benthic and pelagic morphs of Icelandic Arctic charr (Salvelinus alpinus). Ecology and Evolution, 11(12), pp. 7315-7334. (doi: 10.1002/ece3.7563) (PMID:34188815) (PMCID:PMC8216915)

Parsons, Kevin ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-3355-3587, Rigg, Anders, Conith, A.J., Kitchener, A. C., Harris, S. and Zhu, Haoyu (2020) Skull morphology diverges between urban and rural populations of red foxes mirroring patterns of domestication and macroevolution. Proceedings of the Royal Society of London Series B: Biological Sciences, 287(1928), 20200763. (doi: 10.1098/rspb.2020.0763) (PMID:32486981) (PMCID:PMC7341913)

Pilakouta, Natalie ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-8503-520X, Killen, Shaun S. ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-4949-3988, Kristjánsson, Bjarni N., Skúlason, Skúli, Lindström, Jan ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-5630-6680, Metcalfe, Neil B. ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-1970-9349 and Parsons, Kevin J. ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-3355-3587 (2020) Multigenerational exposure to elevated temperatures leads to a reduction in standard metabolic rate in the wild. Functional Ecology, 34(6), pp. 1205-1214. (doi: 10.1111/1365-2435.13538) (PMID:32612318) (PMCID:PMC7318562)

Skulason, S. et al. (2019) A way forward with eco evo devo: an extended theory of resource polymorphism with postglacial fishes as model systems. Biological Reviews, 94(5), pp. 1786-1808. (doi: 10.1111/brv.12534) (PMID:31215138) (PMCID:PMC6852119)

Parsons, Kevin J. ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-3355-3587, McWhinnie, Kirsty, Pilakouta, Natalie ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-8503-520X and Walker, Lynsey (2019) Does phenotypic plasticity initiate developmental bias? Evolution and Development, (doi: 10.1111/ede.12304) (PMID:31348849) (PMCID:PMC7004013)

McWhinnie, Kirsty and Parsons, Kevin J. ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-3355-3587 (2019) Shaping up? A direct comparison between 2D and low-cost 3D shape analysis using African Cichlid mandibles. Environmental Biology of Fishes, 102(7), pp. 927-938. (doi: 10.1007/s10641-019-00879-2)

Armstrong, Tiffany, Khursigara, Alexis J., Killen, Shaun S. ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-4949-3988, Fearnley, Hannah, Parsons, Kevin J. ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-3355-3587 and Esbaugh, Andrew J. (2019) Oil exposure alters social group cohesion in fish. Scientific Reports, 9, 13520. (doi: 10.1038/s41598-019-49994-1) (PMID:31534177) (PMCID:PMC6751191)

Thambithurai, Davide, Crespel, Amelie, Norin, Tommy, Racz, Anita, Lindstrom, Jan ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-5630-6680, Parsons, Kevin J. ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-3355-3587 and Killen, Shaun S. ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-4949-3988 (2019) Hypoxia alters vulnerability to capture and the potential for trait-based selection in a scaled-down trawl fishery. Conservation Physiology, 7(1), coz082. (doi: 10.1093/conphys/coz082) (PMID:31803472) (PMCID:PMC6880855)

Thambithurai, Davide, Hollins, Jack, Van Leeuwen, Travis, Rácz, Anita, Lindström, Jan ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-5630-6680, Parsons, Kevin ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-3355-3587 and Killen, Shaun S. ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-4949-3988 (2018) Shoal size as a key determinant of vulnerability to capture under a simulated fishery scenario. Ecology and Evolution, 8(13), pp. 6505-6514. (doi: 10.1002/ece3.4107) (PMID:30038752) (PMCID:PMC6053581)

Hollins, Jack, Thambithurai, Davide, Köeck, Barbara ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-7142-364X, Crespel, Amelie, Bailey, David M. ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-0824-8823, Cooke, Steven J., Lindström, Jan ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-5630-6680, Parsons, Kevin J. ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-3355-3587 and Killen, Shaun S. ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-4949-3988 (2018) A physiological perspective on fisheries-induced evolution. Evolutionary Applications, 11(5), pp. 561-576. (doi: 10.1111/eva.12597) (PMID:29875803) (PMCID:PMC5978952)

Parsons, Kevin J. ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-3355-3587, Son, Young H., Crespel, Amelie, Thambithurai, Davide, Killen, Shaun ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-4949-3988, Harris, Matthew P. and Albertson, R. Craig (2018) Conserved but flexible modularity in the zebrafish skull: implications for craniofacial evolvability. Proceedings of the Royal Society of London Series B: Biological Sciences, 285(1877), 20172671. (doi: 10.1098/rspb.2017.2671) (PMID:29669899) (PMCID:PMC5936725)

Campbell, Calum S., Adams, Colin E. ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-2470-9754, Bean, Colin W. ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-3502-0995 and Parsons, Kevin J. ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-3355-3587 (2017) Conservation evo-devo: preserving biodiversity by understanding its origins. Trends in Ecology and Evolution, 32(10), pp. 746-759. (doi: 10.1016/j.tree.2017.07.002) (PMID:28797609)

Parsons, Kevin J. ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-3355-3587, Concannon, Moira, Navon, Dina, Wang, Jason, Ea, Ilene, Groveas, Kiran, Campbell, Calum and Albertson, R. Craig (2016) Foraging environment determines the genetic architecture and evolutionary potential of trophic morphology in cichlid fishes. Molecular Ecology, 25(24), pp. 6012-6023. (doi: 10.1111/mec.13801) (PMID:27516345)

Smith, Andrew J., Nelson-Maney, Nathan, Parsons, Kevin J. ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-3355-3587, Cooper, W. James and Albertson, R. Craig (2015) Body shape evolution in sunfishes: divergent paths to accelerated rates of speciation in the centrarchidae. Evolutionary Biology, 42(3), pp. 283-295. (doi: 10.1007/s11692-015-9322-y)

Parsons, Kevin ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-3355-3587, Wang, Jason, Anderson, Graeme and Albertson, R. Craig (2015) Nested levels of adaptive divergence: the genetic basis of craniofacial divergence and ecological sexual dimorphism. G3: Genes, Genomes, Genetics, 5(8), pp. 1613-1624. (doi: 10.1534/g3.115.018226) (PMID:26038365) (PMCID:PMC4528318)

Albertson, R.Craig, Powder, Kara E., Hu, Yinan, Coyle, Kaitlin P., Roberts, Reade B. and Parsons, Kevin J. ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-3355-3587 (2014) Genetic basis of continuous variation in the levels and modular inheritance of pigmentation in cichlid fishes. Molecular Ecology, 23(21), pp. 5135-5150. (doi: 10.1111/mec.12900)

Hu, Yinan, Parsons, Kevin J. ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-3355-3587 and Albertson, R. Craig (2014) Evolvability of the cichlid jaw: new tools provide insights into the genetic basis of phenotypic integration. Evolutionary Biology, 44(1), pp. 145-153. (doi: 10.1007/s11692-013-9254-3)

Küttner, Eva, Parsons, Kevin J. ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-3355-3587, Easton, Anne A., Skúlason, Skuli, Danzmann, Roy G. and Ferguson, Moira M. (2014) Hidden genetic variation evolves with ecological specialization: the genetic basis of phenotypic plasticity in Arctic charr ecomorphs. Evolution and Development, 16(4), pp. 247-257. (doi: 10.1111/ede.12087) (PMID:24920458)

Parsons, Kevin J. ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-3355-3587, Trent Taylor, A., Powder, Kara E. and Albertson, R. Craig (2014) Wnt signalling underlies the evolution of new phenotypes and craniofacial variability in Lake Malawi cichlids. Nature Communications, 5, p. 3629. (doi: 10.1038/ncomms4629)

Parsons, K.J. ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-3355-3587 and Albertson, R.C. (2013) Unifying and generalizing the two strands of evo-devo. Trends in Ecology and Evolution, 28(10), pp. 584-591. (doi: 10.1016/j.tree.2013.06.009)

Parsons, K.J. ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-3355-3587, Márquez, E. and Albertson, R.C. (2012) Constraint and opportunity: the genetic basis and evolution of modularity in the cichlid mandible. American Naturalist, 179(1), pp. 64-78. (doi: 10.1086/663200)

Brzozowski, F., Roscoe, J., Parsons, K. ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-3355-3587 and Albertson, C. (2012) Sexually dimorphic levels of color trait integration and the resolution of sexual conflict in Lake Malawi cichlids. Journal of Experimental Zoology Part B: Molecular and Developmental Evolution, 318(4), pp. 268-278. (doi: 10.1002/jez.b.22443)

Parsons, K.J. ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-3355-3587, Andreeva, V., Cooper, W.J., Yelick, P.C. and Albertson, R.C. (2011) Morphogenesis of the zebrafish jaw: development beyond the embryo. Methods in Cell Biology, 101, pp. 225-248. (doi: 10.1016/B978-0-12-387036-0.00011-6)

Parsons, K.J. ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-3355-3587, Cooper, W.J. and Albertson, R.C. (2011) Modularity of the oral jaws is linked to repeated changes in the craniofacial shape of African cichlids. International Journal of Evolutionary Biology, 2011, pp. 1-10. (doi: 10.4061/2011/641501)

Parsons, K.J. ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-3355-3587, Sheets, H.D., Skulason, S. and Ferguson, M.M. (2011) Phenotypic plasticity, heterochrony and ontogenetic repatterning during juvenile development of divergent Arctic charr (Salvelinus alpinus). Journal of Evolutionary Biology, 24(8), pp. 1640-1652. (doi: 10.1111/j.1420-9101.2011.02301.x)

Parsons, K.J. ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-3355-3587, Son, Y.H. and Albertson, R.C. (2011) Hybridization promotes evolvability in African cichlids: connections between transgressive segregation and phenotypic integration. Evolutionary Biology, 38(3), pp. 306-315. (doi: 10.1007/s11692-011-9126-7)

Cooper, W.J., Parsons, K. ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-3355-3587, McIntyre, A., Kern, B., McGee-Moore, A. and Albertson, R.C. (2010) Bentho-pelagic divergence of cichlid feeding architecture was prodigious and consistent during multiple adaptive radiations within African rift-lakes. PLoS ONE, 5(3), e9551. (doi: 10.1371/journal.pone.0009551) (PMID:20221400) (PMCID:PMC2833203)

Parsons, K.J. ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-3355-3587, Skúlason, S. and Ferguson, M. (2010) Morphological variation over ontogeny and environments in resource polymorphic arctic charr (Salvelinus alpinus). Evolution and Development, 12(3), pp. 246-257. (doi: 10.1111/j.1525-142X.2010.00410.x)

Parsons, K.J. ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-3355-3587 and Albertson, R.C. (2009) Roles for Bmp4 and CaM1 in shaping the jaw: evo-devo and beyond. Annual Review of Genetics, 43(1), pp. 369-388. (doi: 10.1146/annurev-genet-102808-114917)

Parsons, K.J. ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-3355-3587, Cooper, W.J. and Albertson, R.C. (2009) Limits of principal components analysis for producing a common trait space: implications for inferring selection, contingency, and chance in evolution. PLoS ONE, 4(11), e7957. (doi: 10.1371/journal.pone.0007957) (PMID:19956767) (PMCID:PMC2776347)

Riopel, C., Robinson, B.W. and Parsons, K.J. ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-3355-3587 (2008) Analyzing nested variation in the body form of Lepomid sunfishes. Environmental Biology of Fishes, 82(4), pp. 409-420. (doi: 10.1007/s10641-007-9303-9)

Parsons, K.J. ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-3355-3587 and Robinson, B.W. (2007) Foraging performance of diet-induced morphotypes in pumpkinseed sunfish (Lepomis gibbosus) favours resource polymorphism. Journal of Evolutionary Biology, 20(2), pp. 673-684. (doi: 10.1111/j.1420-9101.2006.01249.x)

Parsons, K.J. ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-3355-3587 and Robinson, B.W. (2006) Replicated evolution of integrated plastic responses during early adaptive divergence. Evolution, 60(4), pp. 801-813. (doi: 10.1111/j.0014-3820.2006.tb01158.x)

Gray, S.M., Robinson, B.W. and Parsons, K.J. ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-3355-3587 (2005) Testing alternative explanations of character shifts against ecological character displacement in brook sticklebacks (Culaea inconstans) that coexist with ninespine sticklebacks (Pungitius pungitius). Oecologia, 146(1), pp. 25-35. (doi: 10.1007/s00442-005-0184-3)

Parsons, K.J. ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-3355-3587, Robinson, B.W. and Hrbek, T. (2003) Getting into shape: an empirical comparison of traditional truss-based morphometric methods with a newer geometric method applied to New World cichlids. Environmental Biology of Fishes, 67(4), pp. 417-431. (doi: 10.1023/A:1025895317253)

Robinson, B.W. and Parsons, K.J. ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-3355-3587 (2002) Changing times, spaces, and faces: tests and implications of adaptive morphological plasticity in the fishes of northern postglacial lakes. Canadian Journal of Fisheries and Aquatic Sciences, 59(11), pp. 1819-1833. (doi: 10.1139/F02-144)

Book Sections

Brachmann, Matthew ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-3870-0996 and Parsons, Kevin ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-3355-3587 (2024) Adaptive divergence and radiations: insights from evo-devo. In: Reference Module in Life Sciences. Elsevier. ISBN 9780128096338 (doi: 10.1016/B978-0-443-15750-9.00012-4)

Parsons, Kevin J. ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-3355-3587 (2016) Adaptive radiations: Insights from Evo-Devo. In: Kliman, Richard M. (ed.) Encyclopedia of Evolutionary Biology. Elsevier, pp. 37-45. ISBN 9780128004265 (doi: 10.1016/B978-0-12-800049-6.00141-4)

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Grants

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

  • Developing an evolutionary model for metabolic syndrome: understanding energy sparing adaptations in geothermal populations of stickleback
    Biotechnology and Biological Sciences Research Council
    2022 - 2026
     
  • Reimbursement of publication costs
    University of Massachusetts
    2018 - 2020
     
  • The predictability and limits of evolution to increased temperature: insights from a natural 'experiment'
    Natural Environment Research Council
    2016 - 2020
     
  • Does climate change limit evolutionary potential? Examining the impact of increased temperature on bone development
    The Carnegie Trust for the Universities of Scotland
    2015 - 2016
     
  • Anticipating the Potential for High Conservation Value Fishes to Respond to Climate Change
    Glasgow Natural History Society
    2014 - 2015
     
  • Testing the genomic and phenotypic basis of adaptive divergence in Arctic charr (Salvelinus alpinus)
    The Royal Society
    2013 - 2014
     
  • Using a sequenced-based genetic map to assess genome-wide genetic variation between ecomorphs of Scottish Arctic charr
    Wellcome Trust
    2012 - 2014
     

Supervision

  • Negi, Deepti
    Arrival of the fittest: examining the underlying mechanisms of fish bone development
  • Stansfield, Corin
    Examining the patterns and mechanisms of developmental bias: a major force in evolution and disease

Research datasets

Jump to: 2021
Number of items: 1.

2021

Crespel, A., Miller, T., Rácz, A., Parsons, K. , Lindstrom, J. and Killen, S. (2021) Density influences the heritability and genetic correlations of fish behaviour under trawling-associated selection. [Data Collection]

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