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Frédéric Austerlitz

Frédéric Austerlitz

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Ecology and Evolution

D-Index
45
Citations
7205
World Ranking
4889
National Ranking
217

Overview

Frédéric Austerlitz is affiliated with Université Paris Cité in France and specializes in the field of Biochemistry, Genetics, and Molecular Biology. Their research contributions focus extensively on Genetics and Molecular Biology, with additional work in Artificial Intelligence, Ecology, and Management, Monitoring, Policy and Law.

Their primary research topics include genetic and phenotypic traits in livestock, genetic diversity and population structure, environmental DNA in biodiversity studies, animal behavior and reproduction, species distribution and climate change, evolution and genetic dynamics, and genetic mapping and diversity in plants and animals.

Frequent venues for their publications include bioRxiv (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory), Molecular Ecology Resources, Trends in Genetics, Molecular Ecology, and Plant Ecology and Evolution.

Several recent papers authored or co-authored by Frédéric Austerlitz are as follows:

  • Polygenic Adaptation: Integrating Population Genetics and Gene Regulatory Networks, 2021, Trends in Genetics
  • Sharing and reporting benefits from biodiversity research, 2020, Molecular Ecology
  • New insights on spatial genetic structure and diversity of Coffea canephora (Rubiaceae) in Upper Guinea based on old herbaria, 2020, Plant Ecology and Evolution
  • Sahelian pastoralism from the perspective of variants associated with lactase persistence, 2020, American Journal of Physical Anthropology
  • No evidence for female kin association, indications for extragroup paternity, and sex-biased dispersal patterns in wild western gorillas, 2021, Ecology and Evolution

Frédéric Austerlitz collaborates frequently with several co-authors, including Flora Jay, Aurélie Bonin, Ana L. Caicedo, Angus Davison, and J. Andrew DeWoody.

Best Publications

  • Pollen dispersal of tropical trees (Dinizia excelsa: Fabaceae) by native insects and African honeybees in pristine and fragmented Amazonian rainforest

    Christopher W. Dick;Gabriela Etchelecu;Frédéric Austerlitz

  • EVOLUTION OF COALESCENCE TIMES, GENETIC DIVERSITY AND STRUCTURE DURING COLONIZATION

    Frédéric Austerlitz;Bernard Jung-Muller;Bernard Godelle;Pierre-Henri Gouyon

  • Effects of Colonization Processes on Genetic Diversity: Differences Between Annual Plants and Tree Species

    Frédéric Austerlitz;Stéphanie Mariette;Nathalie Machon;Pierre-Henri Gouyon

  • Using genetic markers to estimate the pollen dispersal curve

    Frederic Austerlitz;Christopher W. Dick;Cyril Dutech;Cyril Dutech;Etienne K. Klein;Etienne K. Klein

  • Origins and Genetic Diversity of Pygmy Hunter-Gatherers from Western Central Africa

    Paul Verdu;Frederic Austerlitz;Frederic Austerlitz;Frederic Austerlitz;Arnaud Estoup;Renaud Vitalis

  • Inferring Population Size History from Large Samples of Genome-Wide Molecular Data - An Approximate Bayesian Computation Approach

    Simon Boitard;Simon Boitard;Willy Rodríguez;Flora Jay;Flora Jay;Stefano Mona

  • Sampling within the genome for measuring within-population diversity: trade-offs between markers.

    S. Mariette;V. Le Corre;F. Austerlitz;A. Kremer

  • Contribution of a Common Single-Nucleotide Polymorphism to the Genetic Predisposition for Erythropoietic Protoporphyria

    Laurent Gouya;Caroline Martin-Schmitt;Anne-Marie Robreau;Frédéric Austerlitz

  • Pollen flow in the wildservice tree, Sorbus torminalis (L.) Crantz. II. Pollen dispersal and heterogeneity in mating success inferred from parent–offspring analysis

    Sylvie Oddou-Muratorio;Etienne K. Klein;Frédéric Austerlitz

  • DNA barcode analysis: a comparison of phylogenetic and statistical classification methods

    Frederic Austerlitz;Olivier David;Brigitte Schaeffer;Kevin Bleakley;Kevin Bleakley;Kevin Bleakley

  • Sociocultural Behavior, Sex-Biased Admixture, and Effective Population Sizes in Central African Pygmies and Non-Pygmies

    Paul Verdu;Paul Verdu;Noémie S.A. Becker;Alain Froment;Myriam Georges

  • Sex‐specific demographic behaviours that shape human genomic variation

    E. Heyer;R. Chaix;S. Pavard;F. Austerlitz

  • Two-generation analysis of pollen flow across a landscape. II. Relation between phi(ft), pollen dispersal and interfemale distance.

    Frédéric Austerlitz;Frédéric Austerlitz;Peter E. Smouse

  • From Social to Genetic Structures in Central Asia

    Raphaëlle Chaix;Raphaëlle Chaix;Lluís Quintana-Murci;Tatyana Hegay;Michael F. Hammer

  • Deciphering the Ancient and Complex Evolutionary History of Human Arylamine N-Acetyltransferase Genes

    Etienne Patin;Luis B. Barreiro;Pardis C. Sabeti;Frédéric Austerlitz

  • POLDISP: A software package for indirect estimation of contemporary pollen dispersal

    Juan J. Robledo-Arnuncio;Frédéric Austerlitz;Peter E. Smouse

  • Relationship between genetic structure and seed and pollen dispersal in the endangered orchid Spiranthes spiralis.

    Nathalie Machon;Philippe Bardin;Susan J. Mazer;Jacques Moret

  • Social transmission of reproductive behavior increases frequency of inherited disorders in a young-expanding population.

    Frédéric Austerlitz;Evelyne Heyer

  • A New Method of Estimating the Pollen Dispersal Curve Independently of Effective Density

    Juan J. Robledo-Arnuncio;Frédéric Austerlitz;Peter E. Smouse

  • Modelling and estimating pollen movement in oilseed rape (Brassica napus) at the landscape scale using genetic markers.

    C. Devaux;C. Lavigne;F. Austerlitz;E. K. Klein

Frequent Co-Authors

Lluis Quintana-Murci
Lluis Quintana-Murci Institut Pasteur
Peter E. Smouse
Peter E. Smouse Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey
Etienne K. Klein
Etienne K. Klein INRAE : Institut national de recherche pour l'agriculture, l'alimentation et l'environnement
Pierre-Henri Gouyon
Pierre-Henri Gouyon French National Museum of Natural History
Luba Kalaydjieva
Luba Kalaydjieva University of Western Australia
Etienne Patin
Etienne Patin Institut Pasteur
Bernard Grandchamp
Bernard Grandchamp Université Paris Cité
Alain Sarasin
Alain Sarasin Institut Gustave Roussy
Victoria L. Sork
Victoria L. Sork University of California, Los Angeles
Tatiana Giraud
Tatiana Giraud University of Paris-Saclay

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