2012 - Prix Marie-Victorin, Government of Quebec
2011 - Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS)
2011 - Fellow of the Royal Society of Canada Academy of Science
His primary scientific interests are in Ecology, Evolutionary biology, Genetics, Sympatric speciation and Genetic diversity. He combines subjects such as Allopatric speciation, Population genetics, Salmo, Genetic structure and Biological dispersal with his study of Ecology. Louis Bernatchez interconnects Fish migration and Allele frequency in the investigation of issues within Salmo.
His work carried out in the field of Evolutionary biology brings together such families of science as Effective population size, Natural selection, Adaptation, Phylogeography and Gene flow. His studies in Sympatric speciation integrate themes in fields like Adaptive radiation, Coregonus, Ecotype and Coregonus clupeaformis. As part of one scientific family, Louis Bernatchez deals mainly with the area of Genetic diversity, narrowing it down to issues related to the Salvelinus, and often Microsatellite, Range and Arctic.
His main research concerns Ecology, Evolutionary biology, Genetics, Zoology and Salvelinus. His specific area of interest is Ecology, where he studies Sympatric speciation. His Sympatric speciation study combines topics in areas such as Allopatric speciation, Natural selection, Ecological speciation, Reproductive isolation and Coregonus clupeaformis.
His research investigates the connection between Evolutionary biology and topics such as Genetic variation that intersect with problems in Heritability. Zoology is closely attributed to Mitochondrial DNA in his research. His Salvelinus study integrates concerns from other disciplines, such as Stocking and Introgression.
Louis Bernatchez focuses on Evolutionary biology, Genetic diversity, Local adaptation, Genome and Fishery. Louis Bernatchez has researched Evolutionary biology in several fields, including Gene flow, Genetic variation, Demographic history, Adaptation and Single-nucleotide polymorphism. His biological study spans a wide range of topics, including Salvelinus and Reproductive success.
His work in Genome addresses issues such as Salmo, which are connected to fields such as CRISPR. His work in the fields of Fisheries management overlaps with other areas such as Stock. His study with Temperate climate involves better knowledge in Ecology.
Louis Bernatchez mostly deals with Evolutionary biology, Genome, Local adaptation, Adaptation and Structural variation. The Evolutionary biology study combines topics in areas such as Lineage, Selection, Gene flow, Genetic variation and Haplotype. His Selection study deals with Allopatric speciation intersecting with Coregonus.
His research in Genome intersects with topics in Selective breeding, Single-nucleotide polymorphism, Salmo and Candidate gene. His Adaptation research integrates issues from Directional selection, Ecotype, Temperate climate and Phenotypic plasticity. His Ecological speciation research focuses on subjects like Population genomics, which are linked to Ecology.
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Adaptive evolutionary conservation: towards a unified concept for defining conservation units.
Dylan J. Fraser;Louis Bernatchez.
Molecular Ecology (2001)
Comparative phylogeography of Nearctic and Palearctic fishes
Louis Bernatchez;Christopher C. Wilson.
Molecular Ecology (1998)
MHC studies in nonmodel vertebrates: what have we learned about natural selection in 15 years?
L. Bernatchez;C. Landry.
Journal of Evolutionary Biology (2003)
Identifying Canadian Freshwater Fishes through DNA Barcodes
Nicolas Hubert;Robert Hanner;Erling Holm;Nicholas E. Mandrak.
PLOS ONE (2008)
The evolutionary history of brown trout (Salmo trutta L.) inferred from phylogeographic, nested clade, and mismatch analyses of mitochondrial DNA variation.
Louis Bernatchez.
Evolution (2001)
DNA sequence variation of the mitochondrial control region among geographically and morphologically remote European brown trout Saltno trutta populations
L. Bernatchez;R. Guyomard;F. Bonhomme.
Molecular Ecology (1992)
Extent and scale of local adaptation in salmonid fishes: review and meta-analysis
DJ Fraser;LK Weir;L Bernatchez;MM Hansen.
Heredity (2011)
Environmental DNA metabarcoding: transforming how we survey animal and plant communities
Kristy Deiner;Holly M. Bik;Elvira Mächler;Elvira Mächler;Mathew Seymour.
Molecular Ecology (2017)
'Good genes as heterozygosity': the major histocompatibility complex and mate choice in Atlantic salmon (Salmo salar).
C. Landry;D. Garant;P. Duchesne;L. Bernatchez.
Proceedings of The Royal Society B: Biological Sciences (2001)
The Genetic Architecture of Ecological Speciation and the Association with Signatures of Selection in Natural Lake Whitefish (Coregonus sp. Salmonidae) Species Pairs
SM Rogers;L Bernatchez.
Molecular Biology and Evolution (2007)
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