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Jean Beaulieu

Jean Beaulieu

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Biology and Biochemistry

D-Index
46
Citations
7386
World Ranking
18958
National Ranking
663

Overview

Jean Beaulieu is affiliated with Université Laval in Canada and has contributed extensively to research in environmental science, with a particular focus on forest ecology and management. Their work bridges genetics, plant science, and agronomy, addressing both theoretical and practical aspects of forest and crop systems.

Their main fields of study include Environmental Science and Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology. Within these broad fields, they have contributed notably to subfields such as Nature and Landscape Conservation, Genetics, Agronomy and Crop Science, Global and Planetary Change, and Plant Science.

The primary research topics covered by their work include:

  • Forest ecology and management
  • Bioenergy crop production and management
  • Genetic and phenotypic traits in livestock
  • Genetic Mapping and Diversity in Plants and Animals
  • Forest Management and Policy
  • Genetics and Plant Breeding
  • Ecology and Vegetation Dynamics Studies

Jean Beaulieu's research has been published in several venues, with multiple contributions to:

  • Evolutionary Applications
  • Heredity
  • Tree Genetics & Genomes
  • Frontiers in Plant Science
  • Scientific Reports

Selected recent papers include:

  • Genomic prediction for hastening and improving efficiency of forward selection in conifer polycross mating designs: an example from white spruce (2020, Heredity)
  • Breeding for adaptation to climate change: genomic selection for drought response in a white spruce multi-site polycross test (2022, Evolutionary Applications)
  • Genomic selection for resistance to spruce budworm in white spruce and relationships with growth and wood quality traits (2020, Evolutionary Applications)
  • Conventional versus genomic selection for white spruce improvement: a comparison of costs and benefits of plantations on Quebec public lands (2020, Tree Genetics & Genomes)
  • Metadata analysis indicates biased estimation of genetic parameters and gains using conventional pedigree information instead of genomic-based approaches in tree breeding (2022, Scientific Reports)

Their frequent co-authors feature researchers such as P. Lenz, Jean Bousquet, Simon Nadeau, Martin Perron, and Jean-Philippe Laverdière, demonstrating collaboration across multiple publications.

Best Publications

  • Spline models of contemporary, 2030, 2060 and 2090 climates for Mexico and their use in understanding climate-change impacts on the vegetation.

    Cuauhtémoc Sáenz-Romero;Gerald E. Rehfeldt;Nicholas L. Crookston;Pierre Duval

  • Placing Forestry in the Assisted Migration Debate

    John H. Pedlar;Daniel W. McKenney;Isabelle Aubin;Tannis Beardmore

  • Scanning the genome for gene single nucleotide polymorphisms involved in adaptive population differentiation in white spruce.

    Marie-Claire Namroud;Jean Beaulieu;Jean Beaulieu;Nicolas Juge;Jérôme Laroche

  • Complete congruence between gene diversity estimates derived from genotypic data at enzyme and random amplified polymorphic DNA loci in black spruce

    Nathalie Isabel;Jean Beaulieu;Jean Bousquet

  • Glacial vicariance in Eurasia: mitochondrial DNA evidence from Scots pine for a complex heritage involving genetically distinct refugia at mid-northern latitudes and in Asia Minor

    Krassimir Naydenov;Sauphie Senneville;Jean Beaulieu;Jean Beaulieu;Francine Tremblay

  • A mitochondrial DNA minisatellite reveals the postglacial history of jack pine (Pinus banksiana), a broad-range North American conifer.

    Julie Godbout;Juan P. Jaramillo-Correa;Jean Beaulieu;Jean Beaulieu;Jean Bousquet

  • Variation in mitochondrial DNA reveals multiple distant glacial refugia in black spruce (Picea mariana), a transcontinental North American conifer.

    Juan P. Jaramillo-Correa;Jean Beaulieu;Jean Beaulieu;Jean Bousquet

  • The impact of climate change on growth of local white spruce populations in Québec, Canada

    Christophe Andalo;Christophe Andalo;Christophe Andalo;Jean Beaulieu;Jean Bousquet

  • Accuracy of genomic selection models in a large population of open-pollinated families in white spruce.

    J Beaulieu;J Beaulieu;T Doerksen;T Doerksen;S Clément;J MacKay

  • Association Genetics of Wood Physical Traits in the Conifer White Spruce and Relationships With Gene Expression

    Jean Beaulieu;Jean Beaulieu;Trevor Doerksen;Trevor Doerksen;Brian Boyle;Sébastien Clément

  • Inferring the past from the present phylogeographic structure of North American forest trees : seeing the forest for the genes

    Juan P. Jaramillo-CorreaJ.P. Jaramillo-Correa;Juan P. Jaramillo-CorreaJ.P. Jaramillo-Correa;Jean BeaulieuJ. Beaulieu;Jean BeaulieuJ. Beaulieu;Damase P. KhasaD.P. Khasa;Damase P. KhasaD.P. Khasa;Jean BousquetJ. Bousquet;Jean BousquetJ. Bousquet

  • Scanning the genome for gene SNPs related to climate adaptation and estimating selection at the molecular level in boreal black spruce.

    Julien Prunier;Jérôme Laroche;Jean Beaulieu;Jean Beaulieu;Jean Bousquet

  • Contrasting evolutionary forces driving population structure at expressed sequence tag polymorphisms, allozymes and quantitative traits in white spruce

    J. P. Jaramillo-Correa;J. Beaulieu;J. Beaulieu;J. Bousquet

  • Direct evidence for biased gene diversity estimates from dominant random amplified polymorphic DNA (RAPD) fingerprints

    Nathalie Isabel;Jean Beaulieu;Philippe Thériault;Jean Bousquet

  • Genomic selection accuracies within and between environments and small breeding groups in white spruce.

    Jean Beaulieu;Jean Beaulieu;Trevor K Doerksen;Trevor K Doerksen;John MacKay;André Rainville

  • Factors affecting the accuracy of genomic selection for growth and wood quality traits in an advanced-breeding population of black spruce (Picea mariana)

    Patrick R.N. Lenz;Patrick R.N. Lenz;Jean Beaulieu;Jean Beaulieu;Shawn D. Mansfield;Sébastien Clément

  • Decoupled mitochondrial and chloroplast DNA population structure reveals Holocene collapse and population isolation in a threatened Mexican‐endemic conifer

    Juan P. Jaramillo-Correa;Jean Beaulieu;Jean Beaulieu;F. Thomas Ledig;Jean Bousquet

  • Genetic structure and patterns of genetic variation among populations in eastern white spruce (Picea glauca)

    Peng Li;Jean Beaulieu;Jean Bousquet

  • Genetic variation in juvenile growth and phenology of white spruce provenance-progeny test.

    P. Li;J. Beaulieu;A. Corriveau;J. Bousquet

  • Nucleofection of muscle-derived stem cells and myoblasts with ϕC31 integrase: stable expression of a full-length-dystrophin fusion gene by human myoblasts

    Simon P. Quenneville;Pierre Chapdelaine;Joël Rousseau;Jean Beaulieu

Frequent Co-Authors

Jean Bousquet
Jean Bousquet Université Laval
Hank A. Margolis
Hank A. Margolis National Aeronautics and Space Administration
John MacKay
John MacKay University of Oxford
Gerald E. Rehfeldt
Gerald E. Rehfeldt US Forest Service
David Paré
David Paré Natural Resources Canada
Martin P. Girardin
Martin P. Girardin Natural Resources Canada
Michel Labrecque
Michel Labrecque University of Montreal
Andrew M. Gordon
Andrew M. Gordon University of Guelph
Jacques Régnière
Jacques Régnière Natural Resources Canada
Janice E. K. Cooke
Janice E. K. Cooke University of Alberta

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