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Anna Qvarnström

Anna Qvarnström

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Ecology and Evolution

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53
Citations
12132
World Ranking
3265
National Ranking
83

Overview

Anna Qvarnström is affiliated with Uppsala University in Sweden, specializing in research spanning environmental science, agricultural and biological sciences, as well as biochemistry, genetics, and molecular biology. Their work predominantly engages with subfields including ecology, evolution, behavior and systematics, genetics, ecological modeling, and molecular biology.

The primary topics addressed in their research involve animal behavior and reproduction, avian ecology and behavior, species distribution and climate change, genetic diversity and population structure, plant and animal studies, wildlife ecology and conservation, and genetic and clinical aspects of sex determination and chromosomal abnormalities.

Among their recent papers are:

  • Fluctuating optimum and temporally variable selection on breeding date in birds and mammals, 2020, Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences
  • Should females prefer old males?, 2021, Evolution Letters
  • Homage to Felsenstein 1981, or why are there so few/many species?, 2021, Evolution
  • Tissue-specific patterns of regulatory changes underlying gene expression differences among Ficedula flycatchers and their naturally occurring F1 hybrids, 2020, Genome Research
  • Anthropogenic Change and the Process of Speciation, 2023, Cold Spring Harbor Perspectives in Biology

Qvarnström has collaborated frequently with several researchers, including Murielle Ålund, S. Eryn McFarlane, Carina F. Mugal, J Carolina Segami Marzal, and David Wheatcroft.

Their publications appear in a range of research venues, with multiple contributions to bioRxiv (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory), Evolution, Ecology and Evolution, The American Naturalist, and the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences.

Best Publications

  • The role of phenotypic plasticity in driving genetic evolution.

    Trevor D. Price;Anna Qvarnström;Darren E. Irwin

  • The genomic landscape of species divergence in Ficedula flycatchers

    Hans Ellegren;Linnéa Smeds;Reto Burri;Pall I. Olason

  • Infectious diseases, reproductive effort and the cost of reproduction in birds.

    Lars Gustafsson;Dag Nordling;Måns Sverker Andersson;Ben C. Sheldon

  • Should females prefer dominant males

    Anna Qvarnström;Elisabet Forsgren

  • Linked selection and recombination rate variation drive the evolution of the genomic landscape of differentiation across the speciation continuum of Ficedula flycatchers

    Reto Burri;Alexander Nater;Takeshi Kawakami;Carina F. Mugal

  • Trade-offs between life-history traits and a secondary sexual character in male collared flycatchers

    Lars Gustafsson;Anna Qvarnström;Ben C. Sheldon

  • Paternal genetic contribution to offspring condition predicted by size of male secondary sexual character

    Ben C. Sheldon;Ben C. Sheldon;Juha Merila;Anna Qvarnstrom;Lars Gustafsson

  • Direct estimate of the rate of germline mutation in a bird

    Linnéa Smeds;Anna Qvarnström;Hans Ellegren

  • 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

    Takeshi Kawakami;Linnéa Smeds;Niclas Backström;Arild Husby

  • Maternal effects, paternal effects and sexual selection

    Anna Qvarnström;Trevor D. Price

  • Sex Chromosome-Linked Species Recognition and Evolution of Reproductive Isolation in Flycatchers

    Stein A. Sæther;Stein A. Sæther;Glenn Peter Sætre;Thomas Borge;Thomas Borge;Chris Wiley;Chris Wiley

  • Adaptive plasticity in mate preference linked to differences in reproductive effort

    Anna Qvarnström;Anna Qvarnström;Tomas Pärt;Tomas Pärt;Ben C. Sheldon;Ben C. Sheldon

  • Speciation through evolution of sex-linked genes.

    Anna Qvarnström;Richard I. Bailey

  • Testing the genetics underlying the co-evolution of mate choice and ornament in the wild

    Anna Qvarnström;Jon E. Brommer;Lars Gustafsson

  • Experimentally increased badge size increases male competition and reduces male parental care in the collared flycatcher

    Anna Qvarnström

  • Badge size in collared flycatchers predicts outcome of male competition over territories

    Tomas Pärt;Anna Qvarnström

  • Flycatcher song in allopatry and sympatry – convergence, divergence and reinforcement

    J. Haavie;T. Borge;S. Bures;László Zsolt Garamszegi

  • Context-dependent genetic benefits from mate choice.

    Anna Qvarnström

  • Climate change, breeding date and nestling diet: how temperature differentially affects seasonal changes in pied flycatcher diet depending on habitat variation

    Claudia Burger;Eugen Belskii;Tapio Eeva;Toni Laaksonen

  • The Intersexual Genetic Correlation for Lifetime Fitness in the Wild and Its Implications for Sexual Selection

    Jon E. Brommer;Mark Kirkpatrick;Anna Qvarnström;Lars Gustafsson

Frequent Co-Authors

Hans Ellegren
Hans Ellegren Uppsala University
Lars Gustafsson
Lars Gustafsson Uppsala University
Glenn-Peter Sætre
Glenn-Peter Sætre University of Oslo
Ben C. Sheldon
Ben C. Sheldon University of Oxford
Marcel E. Visser
Marcel E. Visser University of Groningen
Toni Laaksonen
Toni Laaksonen University of Turku
Tomas Pärt
Tomas Pärt Swedish University of Agricultural Sciences
Tapio Eeva
Tapio Eeva University of Turku
Raivo Mänd
Raivo Mänd University of Tartu
Indrikis Krams
Indrikis Krams University of Latvia

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