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D-Index
114
Citations
53322
World Ranking
466
National Ranking
240

Research.com Recognitions

  • 2018 - Fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences
  • 2017 - Fellow, National Academy of Inventors
  • 2012 - Member of the National Academy of Sciences

Overview

Leif Andersson is affiliated with Texas A&M University in the United States. Their research primarily focuses on the fields of biochemistry, genetics, and molecular biology, with a portfolio of 159 publications within these domains.

The scientist's work spans several subfields, including molecular biology, genetics, global and planetary change, nature and landscape conservation, and ecology, evolution, behavior, and systematics.

Key topics explored in their research include genetic diversity and population structure, identification and quantification in food, genetic and phenotypic traits in livestock, fish ecology and management studies, marine and fisheries research, genomics and phylogenetic studies, and RNA research and splicing.

Leif Andersson's recent papers highlight contributions to evolutionary biology, ecological adaptation, and genomics. Notable recent publications include:

  • Sequence and comparative analysis of the chicken genome provide unique perspectives on vertebrate evolution (2021, Kent Academic Repository (University of Kent))
  • Ecological adaptation in Atlantic herring is associated with large shifts in allele frequencies at hundreds of loci (2020, eLife)
  • Rapid adaptive radiation of Darwin's finches depends on ancestral genetic modules (2022, Science Advances)
  • Asymmetric introgression reveals the genetic architecture of a plumage trait (2021, Nature Communications)
  • A Chromosome-Level Assembly of Blunt Snout Bream (Megalobrama amblycephala) Genome Reveals an Expansion of Olfactory Receptor Genes in Freshwater Fish (2021, Molecular Biology and Evolution)

Frequent co-authors collaborating with Leif Andersson include:

  • Mats E. Pettersson
  • Erik D. Enbody
  • Carl-Johan Rubin
  • Brian W. Davis
  • Florian Berg

The scientist often publishes in venues such as:

  • bioRxiv (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory)
  • Nature Communications
  • Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences
  • Molecular Biology and Evolution
  • PLoS Genetics

Their scholarly contributions have been recognized through multiple honors, including being named a Member of the National Academy of Sciences in 2012, a Fellow of the National Academy of Inventors in 2017, and a Fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences in 2018.

Best Publications

  • Sequence and comparative analysis of the chicken genome provide unique perspectives on vertebrate evolution

    Ladeana W. Hillier;Webb Miller;Ewan Birney;Wesley Warren

  • Whole-genome resequencing reveals loci under selection during chicken domestication

    Carl-Johan Rubin;Michael C. Zody;Michael C. Zody;Jonas Eriksson;Jennifer R. S. Meadows

  • A regulatory mutation in IGF2 causes a major QTL effect on muscle growth in the pig

    Anne-Sophie Van Laere;Minh Nguyen;Martin Braunschweig;Carine Nezer

  • Worldwide Phylogeography of Wild Boar Reveals Multiple Centers of Pig Domestication

    Greger Larson;Keith Dobney;Umberto Albarella;Meiying Fang

  • Evolution of Darwin’s finches and their beaks revealed by genome sequencing

    Sangeet Lamichhaney;Jonas Berglund;Markus Sällman Almén;Khurram Maqbool

  • Genetic Mapping of Quantitative Trait Loci for Growth and Fatness in Pigs

    Leif Andersson;Chris S. Haley;Hans Ellegren;Sara A. Knott

  • A Mutation in PRKAG3 Associated with Excess Glycogen Content in Pig Skeletal Muscle

    Denis Milan;Jin-Tae Jeon;Christian Looft;Valerie Amarger

  • Recalibrating Equus evolution using the genome sequence of an early Middle Pleistocene horse.

    Ludovic Orlando;Aurelien Ginolhac;Guojie Zhang;Duane Froese

  • The origin of the domestic pig: independent domestication and subsequent introgression.

    E Giuffra;J M Kijas;Amarger;Örjan Carlborg

  • Genome sequence, comparative analysis, and population genetics of the domestic horse.

    C. M. Wade;E. Giulotto;S. Sigurdsson;M. Zoli

  • Current perspectives and the future of domestication studies

    Greger Larson;Dolores R. Piperno;Robin G. Allaby;Michael D. Purugganan

  • The abundance of various polymorphic microsatellite motifs differs between plants and vertebrates

    Ulf Lagercrantz;Hans Ellegren;Leif Andersson

  • Strong signatures of selection in the domestic pig genome

    Carl-Johan Rubin;Hendrik-Jan Megens;Alvaro Martinez Barrio;Khurram Maqbool

  • Domestic-animal genomics: deciphering the genetics of complex traits

    Leif Andersson;Leif Andersson;Michel Georges

  • Identification of the Yellow Skin Gene Reveals a Hybrid Origin of the Domestic Chicken

    Jonas K Eriksson;Greger Larson;Ulrika Gunnarsson;Bertrand Bed’hom

  • Rethinking dog domestication by integrating genetics, archeology, and biogeography

    Greger Larson;Elinor K. Karlsson;Angela Perri;Matthew T. Webster

  • Efficient mapping of mendelian traits in dogs through genome-wide association.

    Elinor K Karlsson;Elinor K Karlsson;Izabella Baranowska;Claire M Wade;Claire M Wade;Nicolette H C Salmon Hillbertz

  • A genetic variation map for chicken with 2.8 million single-nucleotide polymorphisms

    Gane Ka Shu Wong;Gane Ka Shu Wong;Gane Ka Shu Wong;Bin Liu;Jun Wang;Jun Wang;Yong Zhang;Yong Zhang

  • Genetic dissection of phenotypic diversity in farm animals

    Leif Andersson

  • Multiple marker mapping of quantitative trait loci in a cross between outbred wild boar and large white pigs

    Sara A. Knott;Lena Marklund;Chris S. Haley;Kjell Andersson

Frequent Co-Authors

Hans Ellegren
Hans Ellegren Uppsala University
Merete Fredholm
Merete Fredholm University of Copenhagen
Per Jensen
Per Jensen Linköping University
Kerstin Lindblad-Toh
Kerstin Lindblad-Toh Uppsala University
Örjan Carlborg
Örjan Carlborg Uppsala University
Alan Archibald
Alan Archibald University of Edinburgh
Paul B. Siegel
Paul B. Siegel Virginia Tech
Bhanu P. Chowdhary
Bhanu P. Chowdhary Texas A&M University
Arild Folkvord
Arild Folkvord University of Bergen

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