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Overview

Nicolas Bierne is affiliated with the University of Montpellier in France and conducts research primarily in the fields of Environmental Science and Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology. Their work addresses a range of subfields including Genetics, Ecology, Global and Planetary Change, Molecular Biology, and Oceanography.

The scientist's research contributions cover several main topics such as Genetic diversity and population structure, Aquatic Invertebrate Ecology and Behavior, Identification and Quantification in Food, Marine Ecology and Invasive Species, Marine Bivalve and Aquaculture Studies, Marine Biology and Ecology Research, and Fish Ecology and Management Studies.

They have authored multiple papers with notable recent publications including:

  • "DILS: Demographic inferences with linked selection by using ABC" (2021) published in Molecular Ecology Resources
  • "Prevalence and polymorphism of a mussel transmissible cancer in Europe" (2021) published in Molecular Ecology
  • "How do species barriers decay? Concordance and local introgression in mosaic hybrid zones of mussels" (2020) published in Journal of Evolutionary Biology
  • "Traits of a mussel transmissible cancer are reminiscent of a parasitic life style" (2021) published in Scientific Reports
  • "Anthropogenic hybridization at sea: three evolutionary questions relevant to invasive species management" (2020) published in Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society B Biological Sciences

Bierne frequently collaborates with several other researchers, including:

  • Alexis Simon
  • Christelle Fraïssé
  • Delphine Destoumieux-Garzón
  • Frédérique Viard
  • Pierre-Alexandre Gagnaire

Their publications appear regularly in a selection of journals and platforms such as bioRxiv (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory), Molecular Ecology, Evolutionary Applications, Journal of Evolutionary Biology, and Peer Community Journal.

Best Publications

  • Hybridization and speciation

    R. Abbott;D. Albach;S. Ansell;J. W. Arntzen

  • Comparative population genomics in animals uncovers the determinants of genetic diversity

    J. Romiguier;Philippe Gayral;Marion Ballenghien;Aurélien Bernard

  • The coupling hypothesis: why genome scans may fail to map local adaptation genes.

    Nicolas Bierne;Nicolas Bierne;John Welch;Etienne Loire;François Bonhomme;François Bonhomme

  • Interpreting the genomic landscape of speciation: a road map for finding barriers to gene flow.

    M. Ravinet;M. Ravinet;R. Faria;R. Faria;R. Faria;R. K. Butlin;R. K. Butlin;J. Galindo

  • Shedding Light on the Grey Zone of Speciation along a Continuum of Genomic Divergence.

    Camille Roux;Camille Roux;Camille Roux;Christelle Fraisse;Christelle Fraisse;Jonathan Romiguier;Jonathan Romiguier;Jonathan Romiguier;Youann Anciaux;Youann Anciaux

  • European sea bass genome and its variation provide insights into adaptation to euryhalinity and speciation

    Mbaye Tine;Heiner Kuhl;Pierre-Alexandre Gagnaire;Bruno Louro

  • Heterozygosity-fitness correlations: a time for reappraisal.

    Marta Szulkin;Nicolas Bierne;Nicolas Bierne;Patrice David

  • Introgression patterns in the mosaic hybrid zone between Mytilus edulis and M. galloprovincialis

    N. Bierne;Philippe Borsa;Philippe Borsa;C. Daguin;D. Jollivet

  • Using neutral, selected, and hitchhiker loci to assess connectivity of marine populations in the genomic era

    Pierre-Alexandre Gagnaire;Pierre-Alexandre Gagnaire;Thomas Broquet;Thomas Broquet;Didier Aurelle;Frédérique Viard;Frédérique Viard

  • Early Effect of Inbreeding as Revealed by Microsatellite Analyses on Ostrea edulis Larvae

    Nicolas Bierne;Sophie Launey;Yamama Naciri-Graven;François Bonhomme

  • The Genomic Rate of Adaptive Amino Acid Substitution in Drosophila

    Nicolas Bierne;Adam Eyre-Walker

  • Reference-Free Population Genomics from Next-Generation Transcriptome Data and the Vertebrate–Invertebrate Gap

    Philippe Gayral;José Melo-Ferreira;Sylvain Glémin;Nicolas Bierne

  • Habitat preference and the marine-speciation paradox

    Nicolas Bierne;Nicolas Bierne;François Bonhomme;Patrice David

  • Increasing genomic information in bivalves through new EST collections in four species: Development of new genetic markers for environmental studies and genome evolution

    Arnaud Tanguy;Nicolas Bierne;Carlos Saavedra;Benjamin Pina

  • Crossing the species barrier: genomic hotspots of introgression between two highly divergent Ciona intestinalis species

    Camille Roux;Georgia Tsagkogeorga;Georgia Tsagkogeorga;Nicolas Bierne;Nicolas Bierne;Nicolas Galtier

  • Single Nucleotide polymorphisms and their relationship to codon usage bias in the Pacific oyster Crassostrea gigas.

    Christopher Sauvage;N Bierne;Sylvie Lapegue;Pierre Boudry

  • Codon usage bias in animals: disentangling the effects of natural selection, effective population size and GC-biased gene conversion

    Nicolas Galtier;Camille Roux;Camille Roux;Camille Roux;Marjolaine Rousselle;Jonathan Romiguier;Jonathan Romiguier

  • Pervasive selection or is it…? why are FST outliers sometimes so frequent?

    Nicolas Bierne;Nicolas Bierne;Denis Roze;Denis Roze;John J. Welch

  • The geography of introgression in a patchy environment and the thorn in the side of ecological speciation

    Nicolas Bierne;Nicolas Bierne;Pierre-Alexandre Gagnaire;Pierre-Alexandre Gagnaire;Patrice David;Patrice David

  • Pleistocene separation of mitochondrial lineages of Mytilus spp. mussels from Northern and Southern Hemispheres and strong genetic differentiation among southern populations

    Karin Gérard;Nicolas Bierne;Nicolas Bierne;Philippe Borsa;Anne Chenuil

Frequent Co-Authors

François Bonhomme
François Bonhomme University of Montpellier
John J. Welch
John J. Welch Washington University in St. Louis
Patrice David
Patrice David University of Montpellier
Frédérique Viard
Frédérique Viard University of Montpellier
Pierre Boudry
Pierre Boudry French Research Institute for Exploitation of the Sea
Nicolas Galtier
Nicolas Galtier University of Montpellier
Sophie Arnaud-Haond
Sophie Arnaud-Haond French Research Institute for Exploitation of the Sea
Didier Jollivet
Didier Jollivet Centre national de la recherche scientifique, CNRS
Cynthia Riginos
Cynthia Riginos University of Queensland
Laurent Duret
Laurent Duret Claude Bernard University Lyon 1

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