Anna Qvarnström

Publications

Recent publications

• Unclear relationships between mean survival rate and its environmental variance in vertebrates (2024)
• Tracking hybrid viability across life stages in a natural avian contact zone (2024)
• Assortative Mating in an Ecological Context (2023)
• Anthropogenic Change and the Process of Speciation (2023)
• Single-Cell Transcriptomics reveals relaxed evolutionary constraint of spermatogenesis in two passerine birds as compared to mammals (2022)

All publications

Articles

• Unclear relationships between mean survival rate and its environmental variance in vertebrates (2024)
• Tracking hybrid viability across life stages in a natural avian contact zone (2024)
• Assortative Mating in an Ecological Context (2023)
• Anthropogenic Change and the Process of Speciation (2023)
• Single-Cell Transcriptomics reveals relaxed evolutionary constraint of spermatogenesis in two passerine birds as compared to mammals (2022)
• Species-specific song responses emerge as a by-product of tuning to the local dialect (2022)
• The role of introductory alarm calls for song discrimination in Ficedula flycatchers (2021)
• Homage to Felsenstein 1981, or why are there so few/many species? (2021)
• Low Heritability but Significant Early Environmental Effects on Resting Metabolic Rate in a Wild Passerine (2021)
• Low Heritability but Significant Early Environmental Effects on Resting Metabolic Rate in a Wild Passerine (2021)
• Should females prefer old males? (2021)
• Adaptive coloration in pied flycatchers (Ficedula hypoleuca) - The devil is in the detail (2021)
• Fluctuating optimum and temporally variable selection on breeding date in birds and mammals (2020)
• Differences in incubation behaviour and niche separation of two competing flycatcher species (2020)
• Tissue-specific patterns of regulatory changes underlying gene expression differences among Ficedula flycatchers and their naturally occurring F₁ hybrids (2020)
• Endless forms of sexual selection (2019)
• Interspecific transfer of parasites following a range‐shift in Ficedula flycatcher (2018)
• Difference in plasticity of resting metabolic rate - the proximate explanation to different niche breadth in sympatric Ficedula flycatchers (2018)
• Climate-driven build-up of temporal isolation within a recently formed avian hybrid zone. (2018)
• Optimal sperm length for high siring success depends on forehead patch size in collared flycatchers (2018)
• Inferring Individual Inbreeding and Demographic History from Segments of Identity by Descent in Ficedula Flycatcher Genome Sequences (2017)
• Cryptic female Strawberry poison frogs experience elevated predation risk when associating with an aposematic partner (2017)
• Insights into the genetic architecture of morphological traits in two passerine bird species (2017)
• Reproductive character displacement of female, but not male song discrimination in an avian hybrid zone (2017)
• Genetic divergence of early song discrimination between two young songbird species (2017)
• Ultra-Rapid Vision in Birds (2016)
• Females discriminate against heterospecific sperm in a natural hybrid zone (2016)
• Whole-genome resequencing of extreme phenotypes in collared flycatchers highlights the difficulty of detecting quantitative trait loci in natural populations (2016)
• Hybrid Dysfunction Expressed as Elevated Metabolic Rate in Male Ficedula Flycatchers (2016)
• Song discrimination by nestling collared flycatchers during early development (2016)
• Competition-driven build-up of habitat isolation and selection favoring modified dispersal patterns in a young avian hybrid zone (2016)
• Increasing the power of genome wide association studies in natural populations using repeated measures - evaluation and implementation (2016)
• Direct estimate of the rate of germline mutation in a bird (2016)
• High-Resolution Mapping of Crossover and Non-crossover Recombination Events by Whole-Genome Re-sequencing of an Avian Pedigree (2016)
• Species replacement reduces community participation in avian antipredator groups (2016)
• Linked selection and recombination rate variation drive the evolution of the genomic landscape of differentiation across the speciation continuum of Ficedula flycatchers (2015)
• Genome-wide association mapping in a wild avian population identifies a link between genetic and phenotypic variation in a life-history trait (2015)
• Climate adaptation and speciation (2015)
• Evolutionary analysis of the female-specific avian W chromosome (2015)
• A blueprint for vocal learning (2015)
• Estimation of linkage disequilibrium and interspecific gene flow in Ficedula flycatchers by a newly developed 50k single-nucleotide polymorphism array (2014)
• A high-density linkage map enables a second-generation collared flycatcher genome assembly and reveals the patterns of avian recombination rate variation and chromosomal evolution (2014)
• Malaria-infected female collared flycatchers (Ficedula albicollis) do not pay the cost of late breeding (2014)
• Coarse Dark Patterning Functionally Constrains Adaptive Shifts from Aposematism to Crypsis in Strawberry Poison Frogs (2014)
• Large-scale geographical variation in eggshell metal and calcium content in a passerine bird (Ficedula hypoleuca) (2014)
• Genomic identification and characterization of the pseudoautosomal region in highly differentiated avian sex chromosomes (2014)
• Sex chromosome linked genetic variance and the evolution of sexual dimorphism of quantitative traits (2013)
• Malaria infections reinforce competitive asymmetry between two Ficedula flycatchers in a recent contact zone (2013)
• Variation in eggshell traits between geographically distant populations of pied flycatchers Ficedula hypoleuca (2013)
• Optimizing the trade-off between offspring number and quality in unpredictable environments (2013)
• Does aggression and explorative behaviour decrease with lost warning colouration? (2013)
• Adaptive colouration in amphibians (2013)
• Relative performance of hybrid nestlings in Ficedula flycatchers (2013)
• Low fertility of wild hybrid male flycatchers despite recent divergence (2013)
• Climate change, breeding date and nestling diet (2012)
• The genomic landscape of species divergence in Ficedula flycatchers (2012)
• Low Genetic Variance in the Duration of the Incubation Period in a Collared Flycatcher (Ficedula albicollis) Population (2012)
• The role of male contest competition over mates in speciation (2012)
• Environment-dependent selection on mate choice in a natural population of birds (2012)
• Combined effects of interspecific competition and hybridization impede local coexistence of Ficedula flycatchers (2012)
• Positive feedback between ecological and reproductive character displacement in a young avian hybrid zone (2012)
• Female Drosophila melanogaster Gene Expression and Mate Choice (2011)
• Geographical trends in the yolk carotenoid composition of the pied flycatcher (Ficedula hypoleuca) (2011)
• Let's talk turkey (2011)
• Prospectors combine social and environmental information to improve habitat selection and breeding success in the subsequent year (2011)
• A guide to the genomics of ecological speciation in natural animal populations (2011)
• Rapid population divergence linked with co-variation between coloration and sexual display in strawberry poison frogs (2011)
• Geographical Variation in Egg Mass and Egg Content in a Passerine Bird (2011)
• Learning the hard way (2011)
• A high-density scan of the Z chromosome in ficedula flycatchers reveals candidate loci for diversifying selection (2010)
• No evidence for Z-chromosome rearrangements between the pied flycatcher and the collared flycatcher as judged by gene-based comparative genetic maps (2010)
• Speciation in Ficedula flycatchers (2010)
• Temporal differences in food abundance promote coexistence between two congeneric passerines (2010)
• Speciation through evolution of sex-linked genes (2009)
• Life-history divergence facilitates regional coexistence of competing Ficedula flycatchers (2009)
• Life-history divergence facilitates regional coexistence of competing Ficedula flycatchers. (2009)
• POSTZYGOTIC ISOLATION OVER MULTIPLE GENERATIONS OF HYBRID DESCENDENTS IN A NATURAL HYBRID ZONE (2009)
• Effects of hybridization on the immunity of collared Ficedula albicollis and pied flycatchers F-hypoleuca, and their infection by haemosporidians (2009)
• A Gene-Based Genetic Linkage Map of the Collared Flycatcher (Ficedula albicollis) Reveals Extensive Synteny and Gene-Order Conservation During 100 Million Years of Avian Evolution (2008)
• Natural and sexual selection against hybrid flycatchers (2008)
• The intersexual genetic correlation for lifetime fitness in the wild and its implications for sexual selection (2007)
• Species divergence in offspring begging intensity (2007)
• Sex chromosome-linked species recognition and evolution of reproductive isolation in flycatchers (2007)
• Does migration of hybrids contribute to post-zygotic isolation in flycatchers? (2007)
• Direct benefits and costs for hybridising Ficedula flycatchers (2007)
• Genetic mapping in a natural population of collared flycatchers (Ficedula albicollis) (2006)
• Levels of linkage disequilibrium in a wild bird population (2006)
• A test of the "sexy son" hypothesis: sons of polygynous collared flycatchers do not inherit their fathers' mating status (2006)
• Testing the genetics underlying the co-evolution of mate choice and ornament in the wild (2006)
• Song similarity predicts hybridization in flycatchers (2006)
• Corss-fostering reveals seasonal changes in the relative fitness of two competring species of flycatchers (2005)
• Flycatcher song in allopatry and sympatry (2004)
• Flyctacher song in allopatry and sympatry - convergence, divergence and reinforcement (2004)
• Female collared flycatchers learn to prefer maöes with an artificial npvel ornament (2004)
• The role of phenotypic plasticity in driving genetic evolution (2003)
• Male ornamentation, timing of breeding, and cost of polygyny in the collared flycatcher (2003)
• The combination of HiFi and HiC sequencing technologies enables the investigation of structural variants in speciation of Ficedula flycatchers
• Age and malaria infection affect nest defence behaviours in collared flycatchers
• Malaria infected birds produce higher levels of vector-attracting compounds
• Sex-specific decrease in longevity following malaria infection in a natural bird population
• Immunoglobulin level and infection intensity influence how malaria-infected collared flycatchers respond to brood size manipulation
• Adjustment of resting metabolic rate by pied flycatchers to the environment promotes regional coexistence with sister species
• The genomic basis of hybrid male sterility in Ficedula flycatchers
• Rapid GRC-linked gene expression divergence in Ficedula flycatchers and implications for spermatogenesis
• Hybrid viability across life-stages in a natural contact zone

Chapters

• Influence of the Environment on the Genetic Architecture of Traits Involved in Sexual Selection within Wild Populations (2014)