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Nicolas Perrin is affiliated with the University of Lausanne in Switzerland. Their research spans multiple fields including Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology, Agricultural and Biological Sciences, and Environmental Science. Their work also includes significant contributions to subfields such as Genetics, Ecology, Evolution, Behavior and Systematics, Ecological Modeling, Global and Planetary Change, and Plant Science.

Their research covers several main topics related to genetics and evolutionary biology. These include Genetic and Clinical Aspects of Sex Determination and Chromosomal Abnormalities, Genetic diversity and population structure, Animal Behavior and Reproduction, Species Distribution and Climate Change, Amphibian and Reptile Biology, Chromosomal and Genetic Variations, and Evolution and Genetic Dynamics.

Nicolas Perrin has published in a variety of scientific journals with frequent contributions to Molecular Ecology, Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society B Biological Sciences, Scientific Reports, Molecular Biology and Evolution, and Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences.

The following papers authored or coauthored by Nicolas Perrin highlight key areas of their research:

  • Are glacial refugia hotspots of speciation and cytonuclear discordances? Answers from the genomic phylogeography of Spanish common frogs, 2020, Molecular Ecology
  • Mass of genes rather than master genes underlie the genomic architecture of amphibian speciation, 2021, Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences
  • Expanding the classical paradigm: what we have learnt from vertebrates about sex chromosome evolution, 2021, Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society B Biological Sciences
  • Integrating hybrid zone analyses in species delimitation: lessons from two anuran radiations of the Western Mediterranean, 2020, Heredity
  • Sex-chromosome evolution in frogs: what role for sex-antagonistic genes?, 2021, Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society B Biological Sciences

Their frequent coauthors include Daniel L. Jeffries, Christophe Dufresnes, Spartak N. Litvinchuk, Pierre-André Crochet, and Nicolas Rodrigues. Collaboration with these researchers has contributed to a body of work addressing evolutionary processes and species genetics, particularly in amphibians.

Best Publications

  • ECOLOGICAL-NICHE FACTOR ANALYSIS: HOW TO COMPUTE HABITAT-SUITABILITY MAPS WITHOUT ABSENCE DATA?

    A. H. Hirzel;J. Hausser;D. Chessel;N. Perrin

  • Sex Determination: Why So Many Ways of Doing It?

    Doris Bachtrog;Judith E. Mank;Catherine L. Peichel;Mark Kirkpatrick

  • Advances in our understanding of mammalian sex-biased dispersal.

    L. J. Lawson Handley;L. J. Lawson Handley;N. Perrin

  • Tests for sex‐biased dispersal using bi‐parentally inherited genetic markers

    Jérôme Goudet;Nicolas Perrin;Peter Waser

  • Local Competition, Inbreeding, and the Evolution of Sex‐Biased Dispersal

    Nicolas Perrin;Vladimir Mazalov

  • Female-biased dispersal in the monogamous mammal Crocidura russula: evidence from field data and microsatellite patterns.

    Laurence Favre;François Balloux;Jerome Goudet;Nicolas Perrin

  • DYNAMIC MODELS OF ENERGY ALLOCATION AND INVESTMENT

    Nicolas Perrin;Richard M. Sibly

  • Tree of Sex: A database of sexual systems

    Tia-Lynn Ashman;Doris Bachtrog;Heath Blackmon;Emma E. Goldberg

  • The Evolution of Sex Determination

    Leo W. Beukeboom;Nicolas Perrin

  • SEX REVERSAL: A FOUNTAIN OF YOUTH FOR SEX CHROMOSOMES?

    Nicolas Perrin

  • Dispersal and Inbreeding Avoidance

    Nicolas Perrin;Vladimir Mazalov

  • Inbreeding, kinship, and the evolution of natal dispersal

    N. Perrin;J. Goudet

  • Functional responses and heterogeneities: an experimental test with cladocerans

    Roger Arditi;Nicolas Perrin;Henni Saïah

  • A rapid rate of sex-chromosome turnover and non-random transitions in true frogs.

    Daniel L. Jeffries;Guillaume Lavanchy;Roberto Sermier;Michael J. Sredl

  • Inbreeding Avoidance through Kin Recognition: Choosy Females Boost Male Dispersal

    Laurent Lehmann;Nicolas Perrin

  • Trophic resource partitioning and competition between the two sibling bat species Myotis myotis and Myotis blythii

    Raphael Arlettaz;Nicolas Perrin;Jacques Hausser

  • Ever-Young sex chromosomes in European tree frogs

    Matthias Stöck;Agnès Horn;Christine Grossen;Dorothea Lindtke;Dorothea Lindtke

  • The role of territory choice, mate choice and arrival date on breeding success in the Savi's Warbler Locustella luscinioides

    Adrian Aebischer;Nicolas Perrin;Myriam Krieg;Jacques Studer

  • Convergent Genetic Architecture Underlies Social Organization in Ants

    Jessica Purcell;Alan Brelsford;Yannick Wurm;Nicolas Perrin

  • Nonshivering thermogenesis capacity associated to mitochondrial DNA haplotypes and gender in the greater white‐toothed shrew, Crocidura russula

    Pierre Fontanillas;Aline Dépraz;Maud S. Giorgi;Nicolas Perrin

  • Evolution of Sex Determination

    Leo W. Beukeboom;Nicolas Perrin

Frequent Co-Authors

Leo W. Beukeboom
Leo W. Beukeboom University of Groningen
Jérôme Goudet
Jérôme Goudet University of Lausanne
Pierre-André Crochet
Pierre-André Crochet Centre national de la recherche scientifique, CNRS
Sylvain Dubey
Sylvain Dubey University of Lausanne
Luca Fumagalli
Luca Fumagalli University of Lausanne
Laurent Lehmann
Laurent Lehmann University of Lausanne
Mark Kirkpatrick
Mark Kirkpatrick The University of Texas at Austin
Pierre Joly
Pierre Joly Claude Bernard University Lyon 1
Alfredo G. Nicieza
Alfredo G. Nicieza University of Oviedo
Pierre Fontanillas
Pierre Fontanillas 23andMe (United States)

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