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Alex Widmer

Alex Widmer

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Ecology and Evolution

D-Index
65
Citations
13162
World Ranking
1821
National Ranking
51

Overview

Alex Widmer is affiliated with ETH Zurich in Switzerland and has contributed extensively to fields including Agricultural and Biological Sciences as well as Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology. Their research spans multiple subfields such as Ecology, Evolution, Behavior and Systematics, Genetics, Plant Science, Molecular Biology, and Ecological Modeling.

Their work often focuses on topics related to Plant and animal studies, Genetic diversity and population structure, Species Distribution and Climate Change, Evolution and Genetic Dynamics, Ecology and Vegetation Dynamics Studies, Genomics and Phylogenetic Studies, and Plant Diversity and Evolution.

Widmer has published in various scientific venues, with a strong presence in bioRxiv (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory) and contributions to Conservation Genetics, Molecular Ecology Resources, Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, and Molecular Biology and Evolution.

Frequent collaborators include Simone Fior, Martin C. Fischer, Hirzi Luqman, Niklaus Zemp, and Rolf Holderegger, reflecting a network of research partnerships.

Recent notable publications include:

  • "Capacity of soil bacteria to reach the phyllosphere and convergence of floral communities despite soil microbiota variation," 2021, Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences
  • "Dioecy Is Associated with High Genetic Diversity and Adaptation Rates in the Plant Genus Silene," 2020, Molecular Biology and Evolution
  • "Genomic signatures of convergent adaptation to Alpine environments in three Brassicaceae species," 2020, Molecular Ecology
  • "Climate-induced range shifts drive adaptive response via spatio-temporal sieving of alleles," 2023, Nature Communications
  • "Developing a monitoring program of genetic diversity: what do stakeholders say?," 2021, Conservation Genetics

In addition to journal articles, Widmer has contributed to academic books, including the publication "Systematische Botanik" in 2022 through vdf Hochschulverlag AG an der ETH Zürich eBooks.

Best Publications

  • Genomics and the origin of species

    Ole Seehausen;Roger K. Butlin;Irene Keller;Catherine Wagner

  • Orchid diversity: an evolutionary consequence of deception?

    Salvatore Cozzolino;Alex Widmer

  • The genetic architecture necessary for transgressive segregation is common in both natural and domesticated populations

    Loren H Rieseberg;Alex Widmer;A Michele Arntz;John M Burke

  • Evolution of reproductive isolation in plants.

    A Widmer;C Lexer;S Cozzolino

  • Estimating genomic diversity and population differentiation – an empirical comparison of microsatellite and SNP variation in Arabidopsis halleri

    Martin Claude Fischer;Christian Rellstab;Marianne Leuzinger;Marie Roumet

  • Glacial refugia: sanctuaries for allelic richness, but not for gene diversity

    Alex Widmer;Christian Lexer

  • Directional selection is the primary cause of phenotypic diversification.

    Loren H. Rieseberg;Alex Widmer;A. Michele Arntz;John M. Burke

  • PATTERNS OF REPRODUCTIVE ISOLATION IN MEDITERRANEAN DECEPTIVE ORCHIDS

    Giovanni Scopece;Aldo Musacchio;Alex Widmer;Salvatore Cozzolino

  • Plant centromeric retrotransposons: a structural and cytogenetic perspective

    Pavel Neumann;Alice Navrátilová;Andrea Koblížková;Eduard Kejnovský

  • Silene as a model system in ecology and evolution.

    G. Bernasconi;J. Antonovics;A. Biere;Deborah Charlesworth

  • Trait differentiation and adaptation of plants along elevation gradients

    Aud H. Halbritter;Aud H. Halbritter;Simone Fior;Irene Keller;Regula Billeter

  • Sequencing of the genus Arabidopsis identifies a complex history of nonbifurcating speciation and abundant trans-specific polymorphism

    Polina Yu Novikova;Nora Hohmann;Viktoria Nizhynska;Takashi Tsuchimatsu

  • Genome-wide Comparative Analysis of the GRAS Gene Family in Populus, Arabidopsis and Rice

    Xuanyu Liu;Alex Widmer

  • Permanent Genetic Resources added to Molecular Ecology Resources Database 1 October 2009–30 November 2009

    Junghwa An;Arnaud Bechet;Åsa Berggren;Sarah K. Brown

  • Rapid De Novo Evolution of X Chromosome Dosage Compensation in Silene latifolia, a Plant with Young Sex Chromosomes

    Aline Muyle;Niklaus Zemp;Clothilde Deschamps;Sylvain Mousset

  • The genic view of plant speciation: recent progress and emerging questions

    Christian Lexer;Alex Widmer

  • Population genomic footprints of selection and associations with climate in natural populations of Arabidopsis halleri from the Alps

    Martin C. Fischer;Christian Rellstab;Andrew Tedder;Stefan Zoller

  • Genetic structure of hybrid zones between Silene latifolia and Silene dioica (Caryophyllaceae): evidence for introgressive hybridization

    A. M. Minder;C. Rothenbuehler;A. Widmer

  • A road map for molecular ecology.

    Rose L. Andrew;Louis Bernatchez;Aurélie Bonin;C. Alex. Buerkle

  • Floral mimicry: a fascinating yet poorly understood phenomenon

    Bitty A Roy;Alex Widmer

  • Floral odour and reproductive isolation in two species of Silene.

    M. O. Waelti;J. K. Muhlemann;A. Widmer;F. P. Schiestl

  • Cophylogeny of the anther smut fungi and their caryophyllaceous hosts: prevalence of host shifts and importance of delimiting parasite species for inferring cospeciation.

    Guislaine Refrégier;Mickaël Le Gac;Florian Jabbour;Alex Widmer

Frequent Co-Authors

Salvatore Cozzolino
Salvatore Cozzolino University of Naples Federico II
Gabriel A. B. Marais
Gabriel A. B. Marais University of Porto
Felix Gugerli
Felix Gugerli Swiss Federal Institute for Forest, Snow and Landscape Research
Boris Vyskot
Boris Vyskot Czech Academy of Sciences
Christian Lexer
Christian Lexer University of Vienna
Kentaro Shimizu
Kentaro Shimizu University of Zurich
Florian P. Schiestl
Florian P. Schiestl University of Zurich
Jacqui A. Shykoff
Jacqui A. Shykoff University of Paris-Saclay
Deborah Charlesworth
Deborah Charlesworth University of Edinburgh

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