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Joachim Hermisson

Joachim Hermisson

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Ecology and Evolution

D-Index
40
Citations
8163
World Ranking
6027
National Ranking
44

Overview

Joachim Hermisson is affiliated with the University of Vienna in Austria, specializing in fields related to Biochemistry, Genetics, and Molecular Biology. The primary focus areas of their research include Genetics, Modeling and Simulation, and aspects of Public Health, Environmental and Occupational Health, as well as Ecology, Evolution, Behavior, and Systematics.

The research topics covered by Hermisson broadly encompass Evolution and Genetic Dynamics, Genetic Diversity and Population Structure, Genetic Mapping and Diversity in Plants and Animals, COVID-19 Epidemiological Studies, Genetic and Phenotypic Traits in Livestock, Zoonotic Diseases and Public Health, and Plant and Animal Studies.

Frequent publication venues where Hermisson's work appears include:

  • bioRxiv (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory)
  • Nature Reviews Genetics
  • Genetics
  • PLoS Genetics
  • Nature Communications

Among recent papers authored or co-authored by Hermisson are:

  • "Polygenic adaptation: a unifying framework to understand positive selection" (2020, Nature Reviews Genetics)
  • "VolcanoFinder: Genomic scans for adaptive introgression" (2020, PLoS Genetics)
  • "Parallel reduction in flowering time from de novo mutations enable evolutionary rescue in colonizing lineages" (2022, Nature Communications)
  • "The limits to parapatric speciation 3: evolution of strong reproductive isolation in presence of gene flow despite limited ecological differentiation" (2020, Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society B Biological Sciences)
  • "Modeling the genetic footprint of fluctuating balancing selection: from the local to the genomic scale" (2023, Genetics)

Frequent co-authors collaborating on research with Hermisson include:

  • Benjamin Wölfl
  • Sylvain Mousset
  • Kory D. Johnson
  • Mathias Beiglböck
  • Manuel Eder

This combination of research topics, publications, and collaborations positions Joachim Hermisson as a contributor to studies that integrate genetic principles with evolutionary theory, modeling approaches, and public health perspectives. The focus on both fundamental genetics and applied contexts such as livestock traits and zoonotic diseases reflects a multidisciplinary engagement with the life sciences.

Best Publications

  • Soft Sweeps: Molecular Population Genetics of Adaptation From Standing Genetic Variation

    Joachim Hermisson;Pleuni S. Pennings

  • Perspective: Evolution and detection of genetic robustness.

    J. Arjan G. M. de Visser;Joachim Hermisson;Günter P. Wagner;Lauren Ancel Meyers

  • MSMS: a coalescent simulation program including recombination, demographic structure and selection at a single locus

    Gregory Ewing;Joachim Hermisson

  • Polygenic adaptation: a unifying framework to understand positive selection

    Neda Barghi;Joachim Hermisson;Christian Schlötterer

  • Soft Sweeps II—Molecular Population Genetics of Adaptation from Recurrent Mutation or Migration

    Pleuni S. Pennings;Joachim Hermisson

  • Soft sweeps III: the signature of positive selection from recurrent mutation.

    Pleuni S Pennings;Joachim Hermisson

  • The Population Genetic Theory of Hidden Variation and Genetic Robustness

    Joachim Hermisson;Günter P. Wagner

  • Soft sweeps and beyond: understanding the patterns and probabilities of selection footprints under rapid adaptation

    Joachim Hermisson;Pleuni S. Pennings

  • The role of epistatic gene interactions in the response to selection and the evolution of evolvability.

    Ashley J.R. Carter;Joachim Hermisson;Thomas F. Hansen;Thomas F. Hansen

  • Evolution of functional specialization and division of labor

    Claus Rueffler;Joachim Hermisson;Günter P. Wagner

  • The limits to parapatric speciation: Dobzhansky-Muller incompatibilities in a continent-island model.

    Claudia Bank;Reinhard Bürger;Joachim Hermisson;Joachim Hermisson

  • On the Fixation Process of a Beneficial Mutation in a Variable Environment

    Hildegard Uecker;Joachim Hermisson

  • Massive habitat-specific genomic response in D. melanogaster populations during experimental evolution in hot and cold environments

    Ray Tobler;Susanne U. Franssen;Robert Kofler;Pablo Orozco-terWengel

  • Why structure matters

    Nicholas H Barton;Joachim Hermisson;Magnus Nordborg

  • Mutation-selection balance: ancestry, load, and maximum principle.

    Joachim Hermisson;Oliver Redner;Holger Wagner;Ellen Baake

  • Polygenic adaptation: From sweeps to subtle frequency shifts

    Ilse Höllinger;Ilse Höllinger;Pleuni S. Pennings;Joachim Hermisson;Joachim Hermisson

  • Epistasis in Polygenic Traits and the Evolution of Genetic Architecture under Stabilizing Selection

    Joachim Hermisson;Thomas F. Hansen;Günter P. Wagner

  • EVOLUTION AND DETECTION OF GENETIC ROBUSTNESS

    J. Arjan G. M. De Visser;Joachim Hermisson;Lauren Ancel Meyers;Homayoun Bagheri-Chaichian

  • Catch Me if You Can: Adaptation from Standing Genetic Variation to a Moving Phenotypic Optimum

    Sebastian Matuszewski;Joachim Hermisson;Joachim Hermisson;Michael Kopp

  • Evolutionary rescue in structured populations.

    Hildegard Uecker;Sarah P. Otto;Joachim Hermisson

  • THE EVOLUTION OF GENETIC ARCHITECTURE UNDER FREQUENCY-DEPENDENT DISRUPTIVE SELECTION

    Michael Kopp;Joachim Hermisson

  • EVOLUTION OF GENETIC ARCHITECTURE UNDER DIRECTIONAL SELECTION

    Thomas F. Hansen;Thomas F. Hansen;José M. ÁLvarez‐CASTRO;Ashley J. R. Carter;Johachim Hermisson

Frequent Co-Authors

Günter P. Wagner
Günter P. Wagner Yale University
Thomas F. Hansen
Thomas F. Hansen University of Oslo
Michael Baake
Michael Baake Bielefeld University
Greg Gibson
Greg Gibson Georgia Institute of Technology
Christian Schlötterer
Christian Schlötterer University of Veterinary Medicine Vienna
Magnus Nordborg
Magnus Nordborg Austrian Academy of Sciences
Maria R. Servedio
Maria R. Servedio University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
Ulf Dieckmann
Ulf Dieckmann International Institute for Applied Systems Analysis
Nicholas H. Barton
Nicholas H. Barton Institute of Science and Technology Austria
Andreas Wagner
Andreas Wagner University of Zurich

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