2026 Tadeusz J. Kawecki: Ecology and Evolution Researcher – H-Index, Publications & Awards

Discipline name	D-Index	World Ranking	Current World Ranking	National Ranking	Current National Ranking	Publications	Citations
Ecology and Evolution	44	4967	4791	105	103	100	12261

Overview

Tadeusz J. Kawecki is affiliated with the University of Lausanne in Switzerland. Their research primarily spans the fields of Agricultural and Biological Sciences as well as Biochemistry, Genetics, and Molecular Biology. Within these broad disciplines, they focus on Ecology, Insect Science, Genetics, Aquatic Science, and Ecology, Evolution, Behavior, and Systematics.

The main topics of their research include physiological and biochemical adaptations, aquaculture nutrition and growth, insect utilization and effects, insect and arachnid ecology and behavior, insect symbiosis and bacterial influences, neurobiology and insect physiology research, and evolution and genetic dynamics.

Frequent coauthors collaborating with Tadeusz J. Kawecki include:

Loriane Savary
Berra Erkoşar
Fanny Cavigliasso
Cindy Dupuis
Héctor Gallart-Ayala

Their work has been published repeatedly in several venues, with the most frequent publication outlets being:

bioRxiv (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory)
Ecology and Evolution
Molecular Biology and Evolution
Evolution Letters
Faculty Opinions - Post-Publication Peer Review of the Biomedical Literature

Among recent publications authored or coauthored by Tadeusz J. Kawecki are:

"An Ancestral Balanced Inversion Polymorphism Confers Global Adaptation," 2023, Molecular Biology and Evolution
"The Genomic Architecture of Adaptation to Larval Malnutrition Points to a Trade-off with Adult Starvation Resistance in Drosophila," 2021, Molecular Biology and Evolution
"Experimental evolution of post-ingestive nutritional compensation in response to a nutrient-poor diet," 2020, Proceedings of the Royal Society B Biological Sciences
"Experimental evolution of metabolism under nutrient restriction: enhanced amino acid catabolism and a key role of branched-chain amino acids," 2023, Evolution Letters
"Effects of an entomopathogenic fungus on the reproductive potential of Drosophila males," 2024, Ecology and Evolution

Best Publications

Conceptual issues in local adaptation

Tadeusz J. Kawecki;Dieter Ebert

4354
Citations
Adaptation to Marginal Habitats

Tadeusz J. Kawecki

738
Citations
A cost of long-term memory in Drosophila.

Frederic Mery;Tadeusz J. Kawecki

324
Citations
A fitness cost of learning ability in Drosophila melanogaster

Frederic Mery;Tadeusz J. Kawecki

318
Citations
Experimental evolution of learning ability in fruit flies

Frederic Mery;Tadeusz J. Kawecki

294
Citations
Evolutionary biology of starvation resistance: what we have learned from Drosophila.

Stéphanie Rion;Tadeusz J. Kawecki

284
Citations
FITNESS SENSITIVITY AND THE CANALIZATION OF LIFE-HISTORY TRAITS.

Stephen C. Stearns;Tadeusz J. Kawecki

271
Citations
Accumulation of Deleterious Mutations and the Evolutionary Cost of Being a Generalist

Tadeusz J. Kawecki

239
Citations
Natural polymorphism affecting learning and memory in Drosophila

Frederic Mery;Amsale T. Belay;Anthony K.-C. So;Marla B. Sokolowski

235
Citations
Evolutionary consequences of asymmetric dispersal rates.

Tadeusz J. Kawecki;Robert D. Holt

231
Citations
The evolution of life histories in spatially heterogeneous environments: Optimal reaction norms revisited

Tadeusz J. Kawecki;Stephen C. Stearns

217
Citations
Demography of source—sink populations and the evolution of ecological niches

Tadeusz J. Kawecki

200
Citations
Red queen meets Santa Rosalia: arms races and the evolution of host specialization in organisms with parasitic lifestyles.

Tadeusz J. Kawecki

196
Citations
The differential genetic and environmental canalization of fitness components in Drosophila melanogaster

Stephen C. Stearns;Marcel Kaiser;Tadeusz J. Kawecki

182
Citations
Influence of Plasticity and Learning on Evolution under Directional Selection

Ingo Paenke;Bernhard Sendhoff;Tadeusz J. Kawecki

170
Citations
THE EVOLUTION OF GENETIC CANALIZATION UNDER FLUCTUATING SELECTION

Tadeusz J. Kawecki

167
Citations
Mutational collapse of fitness in marginal habitats and the evolution of ecological specialisation

T. J. Kawecki;T. J. Kawecki;N. H. Barton;J. D. Fry

161
Citations
Effects of parental larval diet on egg size and offspring traits in Drosophila.

Roshan K. Vijendravarma;Sunitha Narasimha;Tadeusz J. Kawecki

161
Citations
An operating cost of learning in Drosophila melanogaster

Frederic Mery;Tadeusz J. Kawecki

154
Citations
Learning ability and longevity: a symmetrical evolutionary trade-off in Drosophila.

Joep M. S. Burger;Munjong Kolss;Juliette Pont;Juliette Pont;Tadeusz J. Kawecki;Tadeusz J. Kawecki

149
Citations
SYMPATRIC SPECIATION VIA HABITAT SPECIALIZATION DRIVEN BY DELETERIOUS MUTATIONS.

Tadeusz J. Kawecki

144
Citations

Frequent Co-Authors

Stephen C. Stearns Yale University

Laurent Keller University of Lausanne

David Houle Florida State University

Bernhard Sendhoff Honda (Germany)

Dieter Ebert University of Basel

Alexei A. Maklakov University of East Anglia

Peter A. Abrams University of Toronto

Marla B. Sokolowski University of Toronto

Thomas Flatt University of Fribourg

Beat Schwaller University of Fribourg

External Links

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