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Tobias Uller

Tobias Uller

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Ecology and Evolution

D-Index
62
Citations
16439
World Ranking
2050
National Ranking
43

Overview

Tobias Uller is affiliated with Lund University in Sweden and conducts research primarily in the fields of Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology, and Environmental Science. Their work spans several subfields including Genetics, Ecology, Evolution, Behavior and Systematics, Molecular Biology, and Global and Planetary Change.

The topics frequently addressed in their research cover:

  • Amphibian and Reptile Biology
  • Animal Behavior and Reproduction
  • Genetic diversity and population structure
  • Evolution and Genetic Dynamics
  • Genomics and Phylogenetic Studies
  • Species Distribution and Climate Change
  • Plant and animal studies

Tobias Uller has published recent papers including:

  • Plasticity leaves a phenotypic signature during local adaptation, 2020, Evolution Letters
  • Extensive introgression and mosaic genomes of Mediterranean endemic lizards, 2021, Nature Communications
  • Spatial variation in gene flow across a hybrid zone reveals causes of reproductive isolation and asymmetric introgression in wall lizards, 2020, Evolution
  • Using phenotypic plasticity to understand the structure and evolution of the genotype-phenotype map, 2021, Genetica
  • Environmentally induced DNA methylation is inherited across generations in an aquatic keystone species, 2022, iScience

Frequent collaborators in Tobias Uller's research network include Nathalie Feiner, Geoffrey M. While, Reinder Radersma, Joana I. Meier, and Weizhao Yang.

The scholar has contributed articles to several publication venues, with a notable number of papers appearing in:

  • bioRxiv (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory)
  • Wellcome Open Research
  • Journal of Experimental Zoology Part A Ecological and Integrative Physiology
  • Evolution Letters
  • Nature Communications

In addition to journal publications, Tobias Uller has authored books published by leading academic presses, including multiple titles released by Princeton University Press and Cambridge University Press. Noteworthy works include Evolution Evolving (2024) and Philosophy of Science for Biologists (2020).

Best Publications

  • The extended evolutionary synthesis: its structure, assumptions and predictions.

    Kevin N. Laland;Tobias Uller;Tobias Uller;Marcus W. Feldman;Kim Sterelny;Kim Sterelny

  • When is a maternal effect adaptive

    Dustin J. Marshall;Tobias Uller

  • Does evolutionary theory need a rethink

    Kevin Laland;Tobias Uller;Marc Feldman;Kim Sterelny

  • Cause and Effect in Biology Revisited: Is Mayr's Proximate-Ultimate Dichotomy Still Useful?

    Kevin N. Laland;Kim Sterelny;Kim Sterelny;John Odling-Smee;William Hoppitt

  • Developmental plasticity and the evolution of parental effects

    Tobias Uller

  • Parental effects in ecology and evolution: mechanisms, processes, and implications

    Alexander V Badyaev;Tobias Uller;Tobias Uller

  • Multiple paternity in reptiles: patterns and processes

    Tobias Uller;Mats Olsson

  • Weak evidence for anticipatory parental effects in plants and animals.

    Tobias Uller;Shinichi Nakagawa;Sinead English

  • Towards an evolutionary ecology of sexual traits

    Charlie K. Cornwallis;Tobias Uller

  • Developmental Bias and Evolution: A Regulatory Network Perspective.

    Tobias Uller;Armin P Moczek;Richard A Watson;Paul M Brakefield

  • Regulatory changes in pterin and carotenoid genes underlie balanced color polymorphisms in the wall lizard.

    Pedro Andrade;Catarina Pinho;Guillem Pérez i. de Lanuza;Sandra Afonso

  • More on how and why: cause and effect in biology revisited

    Kevin N. Laland;John Odling-Smee;William Hoppitt;Tobias Uller

  • Strategic female reproductive investment in response to male attractiveness in birds

    Terézia Horváthová;Shinichi Nakagawa;Tobias Uller

  • Climate-driven population divergence in sex-determining systems

    Ido Pen;Tobias Uller;Barbara Feldmeyer;Anna Harts

  • Reproductive investment when mate quality varies: differential allocation versus reproductive compensation.

    W. Edwin Harris;Tobias Uller

  • Three epigenetic information channels and their different roles in evolution

    Nicholas Shea;Ido Pen;Tobias Uller

  • Evolution of maternal effects: past and present.

    Timothy A Mousseau;Tobias Uller;Erik Wapstra;Alexander V Badyaev

  • Epigenetic determinism in science and society

    Miranda R. Waggoner;Tobias Uller

  • Sex-specific sibling interactions and offspring fitness in vertebrates: patterns and implications for maternal sex ratios.

    Tobias Uller

  • Seeing red: morph-specific contest success, and survival rates, in a colour-polymorphic agamid lizard

    Mo Healey;Tobias Uller;Mats Olsson

Frequent Co-Authors

Mats Olsson
Mats Olsson University of Gothenburg
Geoffrey M. While
Geoffrey M. While University of Tasmania
Erik Wapstra
Erik Wapstra University of Tasmania
Caroline Isaksson
Caroline Isaksson Lund University
Heikki Helanterä
Heikki Helanterä University of Oulu
Ido Pen
Ido Pen University of Groningen
Mark R. Wilson
Mark R. Wilson University of Wollongong
Richard Shine
Richard Shine Macquarie University
Shinichi Nakagawa
Shinichi Nakagawa University of New South Wales
Leif Andersson
Leif Andersson Texas A&M University

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