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Gerald Heckel is affiliated with the University of Bern in Switzerland. Their research spans key areas within medicine and agricultural and biological sciences, with a particular focus on infectious diseases, genetics, ecology, evolution, behavior, and public health.

Their work extensively explores topics related to viral infections and vectors, genetic diversity and population structure, viral gastroenteritis research and epidemiology, vector-borne animal diseases, mosquito-borne diseases and control, animal ecology and behavior studies, and the ecological effects of fire on ecosystems.

Heckel has contributed to several peer-reviewed articles, including:

  • Hantavirus-Leptospira coinfections in small mammals from central Germany, 2021, published in Epidemiology and Infection
  • Fitness, risk taking, and spatial behavior covary with boldness in experimental vole populations, 2022, published in Ecology and Evolution
  • Seasonal migration patterns and the maintenance of evolutionary diversity in a cryptic bird radiation, 2021, published in Molecular Ecology
  • Demographic history and genomic consequences of 10,000 generations of isolation in a wild mammal, 2023, published in Current Biology
  • Genomic insight into diet adaptation in the biological control agent Cryptolaemus montrouzieri, 2021, published in BMC Genomics

Their frequent coauthors include:

  • Rainer G. Ulrich
  • Stephan Drewes
  • Kathrin Jeske
  • Xuejing Wang
  • Calvin Mehl

Heckel publishes regularly in journals such as:

  • Viruses
  • Virus Evolution
  • Emerging Infectious Diseases
  • Molecular Ecology
  • Journal of Biogeography

Best Publications

  • Computer programs for population genetics data analysis: a survival guide.

    Laurent Excoffier;Gerald Heckel

  • Novel hepatitis E virus genotype in Norway rats, Germany.

    Reimar Johne;Gerald Heckel;Anita Plenge-Bönig;Eveline Kindler

  • Adaptive evolution during an ongoing range expansion: the invasive bank vole (Myodes glareolus) in Ireland

    Thomas A. White;Thomas A. White;Sarah E. Perkins;Gerald Heckel;Gerald Heckel;Jeremy B. Searle

  • Enhanced AFLP genome scans detect local adaptation in high-altitude populations of a small rodent (Microtus arvalis).

    Martin Claude Fischer;Martin Claude Fischer;Matthieu Foll;Matthieu Foll;Laurent Excoffier;Laurent Excoffier;Gerald Heckel;Gerald Heckel

  • Mammalian monogamy is not controlled by a single gene

    Sabine Fink;Laurent Excoffier;Gerald Heckel

  • Hepeviridae: an expanding family of vertebrate viruses.

    Reimar Johne;Paul Dremsek;Jochen Reetz;Gerald Heckel

  • Bayesian estimation of recent migration rates after a spatial expansion

    Grant Hamilton;Mathias Currat;Mathias Currat;Nicolas Ray;Nicolas Ray;Gerald Heckel

  • Genetic structure and colonization processes in European populations of the common vole, Microtus arvalis.

    Gerald Heckel;Reto Burri;Sabine Fink;Jean-François Desmet

  • Source attribution of human Campylobacter isolates by MLST and fla-typing and association of genotypes with quinolone resistance.

    Sonja Kittl;Gerald Heckel;Gerald Heckel;Bożena M. Korczak;Peter Kuhnert

  • Estimating population structure from AFLP amplification intensity

    Matthieu Foll;Matthieu Foll;Martin C. Fischer;Martin C. Fischer;Gerald Heckel;Gerald Heckel;Laurent Excoffier;Laurent Excoffier

  • Divergent evolutionary processes associated with colonization of offshore islands

    Natália Martínková;Natália Martínková;Ross Barnett;Ross Barnett;Thomas Cucchi;Thomas Cucchi;Rahel Struchen

  • Mitochondrial gene diversity in the common vole Microtus arvalis shaped by historical divergence and local adaptations

    Sabine Fink;Laurent Excoffier;Gerald Heckel

  • Gene flow in admixed populations and implications for the conservation of the Western honeybee, Apis mellifera

    Gabriele Soland-Reckeweg;Gerald Heckel;Peter Neumann;Peter Fluri

  • Female-biased dispersal and patrilocal kin groups in a mammal with resource-defence polygyny

    Martina Nagy;Gerald Heckel;Christian C Voigt;Frieder Mayer

  • Rat hepatitis E virus: geographical clustering within Germany and serological detection in wild Norway rats (Rattus norvegicus).

    Reimar Johne;Paul Dremsek;Eveline Kindler;Anika Schielke;Anika Schielke

  • Extensive Host Sharing of Central European Tula Virus

    Jonas Schmidt-Chanasit;Sandra Essbauer;Rasa Petraityte;Kumiko Yoshimatsu

  • Fine-scale genetic structure and dispersal in the common vole (Microtus arvalis).

    Manuel Schweizer;Laurent Excoffier;Gerald Heckel

  • Male tactics and reproductive success in the harem polygynous bat Saccopteryx bilineata

    Gerald Heckel;Otto von Helversen

  • Genomic Scans Support Repetitive Continental Colonization Events during the Rapid Radiation of Voles (Rodentia: Microtus): the Utility of AFLPs versus Mitochondrial and Nuclear Sequence Markers

    Sabine Fink;Martin C. Fischer;Martin C. Fischer;Laurent Excoffier;Laurent Excoffier;Gerald Heckel;Gerald Heckel

  • Detection of rat hepatitis E virus in wild Norway rats (Rattus norvegicus) and Black rats (Rattus rattus) from 11 European countries

    René Ryll;Samuel Bernstein;Elisa Heuser;Mathias Schlegel

  • Transalpine colonisation and partial phylogeographic erosion by dispersal in the common vole (Microtus arvalis).

    Sonja Braaker;Gerald Heckel

  • Ignoring Heterozygous Sites Biases Phylogenomic Estimates of Divergence Times: Implications for the Evolutionary History of Microtus Voles

    Heidi E.L. Lischer;Laurent Excoffier;Laurent Excoffier;Gerald Heckel;Gerald Heckel

Frequent Co-Authors

Rainer G. Ulrich
Rainer G. Ulrich Friedrich-Loeffler-Institut
Laurent Excoffier
Laurent Excoffier University of Bern
Reimar Johne
Reimar Johne Federal Institute for Risk Assessment
Jonas Schmidt-Chanasit
Jonas Schmidt-Chanasit Universität Hamburg
Martin H. Groschup
Martin H. Groschup Friedrich-Loeffler-Institut
Martin Pfeffer
Martin Pfeffer Leipzig University
Sebastian Guenther
Sebastian Guenther University of Greifswald
Jeremy B. Searle
Jeremy B. Searle Cornell University
Christian C. Voigt
Christian C. Voigt Leibniz Association
Gereon Schares
Gereon Schares Friedrich-Loeffler-Institut

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