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Laurent Excoffier

Laurent Excoffier

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Ecology and Evolution
Switzerland
2026
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Genetics
Switzerland
2026

D-Index & Metrics

Ecology and Evolution

D-Index
109
Citations
104086
World Ranking
180
National Ranking
7

Genetics

D-Index
111
Citations
104798
World Ranking
505
National Ranking
11

Research.com Recognitions

  • 2026 - Research.com Ecology and Evolution in Switzerland Leader Award
  • 2026 - Research.com Genetics in Switzerland Leader Award
  • 2025 - Research.com Ecology and Evolution in Switzerland Leader Award
  • 2025 - Research.com Genetics in Switzerland Leader Award
  • 2024 - Research.com Genetics in Switzerland Leader Award
  • 2023 - Research.com Genetics in Switzerland Leader Award

Overview

Laurent Excoffier is affiliated with the University of Bern in Switzerland. Their research primarily spans the fields of biochemistry, genetics, and molecular biology, with a focus on genetics as the central subfield of study.

The key research topics addressed in their work include:

  • Genetic diversity and population structure
  • Evolution and genetic dynamics
  • Forensic and genetic research
  • Genetic and phenotypic traits in livestock
  • Genetic mapping and diversity in plants and animals
  • Archaeology and ancient environmental studies
  • Animal behavior and reproduction

Laurent Excoffier's publication record highlights contributions to several recurring journals and platforms, which include:

  • bioRxiv (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory)
  • Molecular Biology and Evolution
  • Nature
  • Molecular Ecology Resources
  • Genetics

Recent papers authored or coauthored by Laurent Excoffier comprise the following:

  • fastsimcoal2: demographic inference under complex evolutionary scenarios (2021), Bioinformatics
  • The ecological and genomic basis of explosive adaptive radiation (2020), Nature
  • Genomic insights into population history and biological adaptation in Oceania (2021), Nature
  • Recommendations for improving statistical inference in population genomics (2022), PLoS Biology
  • The Impact of Purifying and Background Selection on the Inference of Population History: Problems and Prospects (2021), Molecular Biology and Evolution

Their frequent coauthors include:

  • Stephan Peischl
  • Nina Marchi
  • David A. Marques
  • Adamandia Kapopoulou
  • Flávia Schlichta

Best Publications

  • Arlequin suite ver 3.5: a new series of programs to perform population genetics analyses under Linux and Windows

    Laurent Excoffier;Heidi E. L. Lischer

  • Arlequin (version 3.0): An integrated software package for population genetics data analysis

    Laurent Georges Louis Excoffier;Guillaume Laval;Stefan Schneider

  • Analysis of molecular variance inferred from metric distances among DNA haplotypes: application to human mitochondrial DNA restriction data.

    L. Excoffier;Peter Smouse;J. M. Quattro

  • Maximum-likelihood estimation of molecular haplotype frequencies in a diploid population.

    L Excoffier;M Slatkin

  • A Human Genome Diversity Cell Line Panel

    Howard M. Cann;Claudia De Toma;Lucien Cazes;Marie Fernande Legrand

  • A simulated annealing approach to define the genetic structure of populations

    Isabelle Dupanloup;Stefan Schneider;Laurent Georges Louis Excoffier

  • Estimation of Past Demographic Parameters From the Distribution of Pairwise Differences When the Mutation Rates Vary Among Sites: Application to Human Mitochondrial DNA

    Stefan Schneider;Laurent Georges Louis Excoffier

  • Robust demographic inference from genomic and SNP data.

    Laurent Excoffier;Isabelle Dupanloup;Emilia Huerta-Sánchez;Vitor C. Sousa

  • PGDSpider: an automated data conversion tool for connecting population genetics and genomics programs.

    Heidi E. L. Lischer;Laurent Excoffier

  • Genetic Consequences of Range Expansions

    Laurent Excoffier;Matthieu Foll;Rémy J. Petit

  • A Generic Estimation of Population Subdivision Using Distances Between Alleles With Special Reference for Microsatellite Loci

    Yannis Michalakis;Laurent Excoffier

  • Reconstructing Native American population history

    David Emil Reich;David Emil Reich;Nick Patterson;Desmond Campbell;Desmond Campbell;Arti Tandon;Arti Tandon

  • Detecting loci under selection in a hierarchically structured population.

    Laurent Excoffier;Laurent Excoffier;Tamara Hofer;Tamara Hofer;Matthieu Foll;Matthieu Foll

  • The Hidden Side of Invasions: Massive Introgression by Local Genes

    Mathias Currat;Mathias Currat;Manuel Rüedi;Rémy J. Petit;Laurent Georges Louis Excoffier

  • Gene flow and species delimitation.

    Rémy J. Petit;Rémy J. Petit;Laurent Excoffier

  • Patterns of DNA sequence diversity and genetic structure after a range expansion: lessons from the infinite-island model

    Laurent Excoffier

  • Genetic Variation and Population Structure in Native Americans

    Sijia Wang;Cecil M. Lewis;Mattias Jakobsson;Sohini Ramachandran

  • Multiple maternal origins and weak phylogeographic structure in domestic goats.

    Gordon Luikart;Ludovic Gielly;Laurent Georges Louis Excoffier;Jean-Denis Vigne

  • Surfing during population expansions promotes genetic revolutions and structuration

    Laurent Georges Louis Excoffier;Nicolas Ray

  • The Fate of Mutations Surfing on the Wave of a Range Expansion

    Seraina Klopfstein;Mathias Currat;Laurent Georges Louis Excoffier

  • An Integrated Software Package for Population Genetics Data Analysis

    Laurent Excoffier;Heidi Lischer

Frequent Co-Authors

Vitor C. Sousa
Vitor C. Sousa University of Lisbon
Gerald Heckel
Gerald Heckel University of Bern
Ole Seehausen
Ole Seehausen University of Bern
Eske Willerslev
Eske Willerslev University of Copenhagen
Rasmus Nielsen
Rasmus Nielsen University of California, Berkeley
Marc Robinson-Rechavi
Marc Robinson-Rechavi University of Lausanne
Oscar E. Gaggiotti
Oscar E. Gaggiotti University of St Andrews
Mark A. Beaumont
Mark A. Beaumont University of Bristol
Francisco M. Salzano
Francisco M. Salzano Federal University of Rio Grande do Sul
Lluis Quintana-Murci
Lluis Quintana-Murci Institut Pasteur

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