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Catherine L. Peichel

Catherine L. Peichel

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Biology and Biochemistry

D-Index
58
Citations
14676
World Ranking
13024
National Ranking
232

Research.com Recognitions

  • 2020 - Fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences
  • 2013 - Fellow of John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation

Overview

Catherine L. Peichel is affiliated with the University of Bern in Switzerland and has an extensive publication record in the fields of Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology, as well as Agricultural and Biological Sciences. Their research spans multiple subfields including Genetics, Plant Science, Molecular Biology, Ecology, Evolution, Behavior and Systematics, and Nature and Landscape Conservation.

The scientist has contributed significantly to topics such as Genetic diversity and population structure, Genetic and Clinical Aspects of Sex Determination and Chromosomal Abnormalities, Chromosomal and Genetic Variations, Animal Behavior and Reproduction, Evolution and Genetic Dynamics, Fish Ecology and Management Studies, and Reproductive biology and impacts on aquatic species.

Frequent publication venues include bioRxiv (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory), Evolution, Molecular Ecology, Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, and the Journal of Evolutionary Biology.

  • Assembly of the threespine stickleback Y chromosome reveals convergent signatures of sex chromosome evolution (2020, Genome biology)
  • Genetics of adaptation (2022, Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences)
  • How chromosomal inversions reorient the evolutionary process (2023, Journal of Evolutionary Biology)
  • Expanding the classical paradigm: what we have learnt from vertebrates about sex chromosome evolution (2021, Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society B Biological Sciences)
  • Adaptation via pleiotropy and linkage: Association mapping reveals a complex genetic architecture within the stickleback Eda locus (2020, Evolution Letters)

The scientist has collaborated frequently with several co-authors, including Daniel I. Bolnick, Ole Seehausen, Jason M. Sardell, Mark Kirkpatrick, and Marius Roesti.

Catherine L. Peichel has been recognized as a Fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences since 2020 and was named a Fellow of the John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation in 2013.

Best Publications

  • Sex Determination: Why So Many Ways of Doing It?

    Doris Bachtrog;Judith E. Mank;Catherine L. Peichel;Mark Kirkpatrick

  • Genomics and the origin of species

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

  • Genetic and developmental basis of evolutionary pelvic reduction in threespine sticklebacks

    Michael D. Shapiro;Melissa E. Marks;Catherine L. Peichel;Benjamin K. Blackman

  • The genetic architecture of divergence between threespine stickleback species

    Catherine L. Peichel;Kirsten S. Nereng;Kenneth A. Ohgi;Bonnie L. E. Cole

  • The genetic architecture of parallel armor plate reduction in threespine sticklebacks

    Pamela F Colosimo;Catherine L Peichel;Kirsten Nereng;Benjamin K Blackman

  • The probability of genetic parallelism and convergence in natural populations

    Gina L. Conte;Matthew E. Arnegard;Catherine L. Peichel;Dolph Schluter

  • The Master Sex-Determination Locus in Threespine Sticklebacks Is on a Nascent Y Chromosome

    Catherine L. Peichel;Catherine L. Peichel;Joseph A. Ross;Joseph A. Ross;Clinton K. Matson;Mark Dickson

  • A role for a neo-sex chromosome in stickleback speciation

    Jun Kitano;Joseph A. Ross;Joseph A. Ross;Joseph A. Ross;Seiichi Mori;Manabu Kume

  • Genetics of ecological divergence during speciation

    Matthew E. Arnegard;Matthew D. McGee;Blake Matthews;Kerry B. Marchinko

  • Tree of Sex: A database of sexual systems

    Tia-Lynn Ashman;Doris Bachtrog;Heath Blackmon;Emma E. Goldberg

  • Along the speciation continuum in sticklebacks

    Andrew P. Hendry;Daniel I. Bolnick;Daniel Berner;Catherine L. Peichel

  • Are homologies in vertebrate sex determination due to shared ancestry or to limited options

    Jennifer A Marshall Graves;Catherine L Peichel

  • Turnover of Sex Chromosomes in the Stickleback Fishes (Gasterosteidae)

    Joseph A. Ross;Joseph A. Ross;James R. Urton;James R. Urton;Jessica Boland;Michael D. Shapiro

  • PARALLEL AND NONPARALLEL ASPECTS OF ECOLOGICAL, PHENOTYPIC, AND GENETIC DIVERGENCE ACROSS REPLICATE POPULATION PAIRS OF LAKE AND STREAM STICKLEBACK

    Renaud Kaeuffer;Catherine L. Peichel;Daniel I. Bolnick;Andrew P. Hendry

  • About PAR: The distinct evolutionary dynamics of the pseudoautosomal region

    Sarah P. Otto;John R. Pannell;Catherine L. Peichel;Tia-Lynn Ashman

  • Murine c-mpl: a member of the hematopoietic growth factor receptor superfamily that transduces a proliferative signal.

    R. C. Skoda;D. C. Seldin;Ming-Ko Chiang;C. L. Peichel

  • Contrasting effects of environment and genetics generate a continuum of parallel evolution

    Yoel E. Stuart;Thor Veen;Jesse N. Weber;Dieta Hanson

  • Contrasting hybridization rates between sympatric three-spined sticklebacks highlight the fragility of reproductive barriers between evolutionarily young species.

    Jennifer L. Gow;Catherine L. Peichel;Eric B. Taylor

  • The genetic and molecular architecture of phenotypic diversity in sticklebacks

    Catherine Peichel;David Alexander Marques

  • Reverse evolution of armor plates in the threespine stickleback.

    Jun Kitano;Daniel I. Bolnick;David A. Beauchamp;Michael M. Mazur

Frequent Co-Authors

David M. Kingsley
David M. Kingsley Stanford University
Daniel I. Bolnick
Daniel I. Bolnick University of Connecticut
Dolph Schluter
Dolph Schluter University of British Columbia
Andrew P. Hendry
Andrew P. Hendry McGill University
Richard M. Myers
Richard M. Myers HudsonAlpha Institute for Biotechnology
Jane Grimwood
Jane Grimwood HudsonAlpha Institute for Biotechnology
Jeremy Schmutz
Jeremy Schmutz Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory
Mark Kirkpatrick
Mark Kirkpatrick The University of Texas at Austin
Ole Seehausen
Ole Seehausen University of Bern
Blake Matthews
Blake Matthews Swiss Federal Institute of Aquatic Science and Technology

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