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Xavier Vekemans

Xavier Vekemans

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Biology and Biochemistry

D-Index
52
Citations
14697
World Ranking
16481
National Ranking
692

Overview

Xavier Vekemans is affiliated with the University of Lille in France and has contributed extensively to research in biochemistry, genetics, and molecular biology, with a particular focus on agricultural and biological sciences. Their work spans various subfields, including molecular biology, genetics, plant science, ecology, evolution, behavior, and systematics.

Their research concentrates on topics such as plant reproductive biology, plant and animal studies, genetic diversity and population structure, plant molecular biology research, aquatic invertebrate ecology and behavior, chromosomal and genetic variations, and evolution and genetic dynamics.

Among recent publications attributed to the research community including Vekemans, notable papers include:

  • DILS: Demographic inferences with linked selection by using ABC, 2021, Molecular Ecology Resources
  • Evolution of self-incompatibility in the Brassicaceae: Lessons from a textbook example of natural selection, 2020, Evolutionary Applications
  • Maintenance of Adaptive Dynamics and No Detectable Load in a Range-Edge Outcrossing Plant Population, 2021, Molecular Biology and Evolution
  • Whole-genome sequencing and genome regions of special interest: Lessons from major histocompatibility complex, sex determination, and plant self-incompatibility, 2021, Molecular Ecology
  • Transition to Self-compatibility Associated With Dominant S-allele in a Diploid Siberian Progenitor of Allotetraploid Arabidopsis kamchatica Revealed by Arabidopsis lyrata Genomes, 2023, Molecular Biology and Evolution

Vekemans has collaborated frequently with several researchers in the field, including:

  • Vincent Castric
  • Mathieu Genête
  • Camille Roux
  • Éléonore Durand
  • Céline Poux

The scientist's work has been published in various venues, with multiple contributions to:

  • bioRxiv (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory)
  • Molecular Biology and Evolution
  • Zenodo (CERN European Organization for Nuclear Research)
  • Molecular Ecology Resources
  • eLife

This publication record reflects a broad engagement with research communities focusing on molecular ecology, evolutionary biology, genetics, and related disciplines. The diversity of topics and coauthors illustrates an interdisciplinary approach to studying plant reproductive biology and genetic mechanisms underlying self-incompatibility and adaptation.

Best Publications

  • spagedi: a versatile computer program to analyse spatial genetic structure at the individual or population levels

    Olivier J. Hardy;Xavier Vekemans

  • New insights from fine-scale spatial genetic structure analyses in plant populations.

    Xavier Vekemans;Olivier J. Hardy

  • Data from amplified fragment length polymorphism (AFLP) markers show indication of size homoplasy and of a relationship between degree of homoplasy and fragment size.

    Xavier Vekemans;Thomas Beauwens;Muriel Lemaire;Isabel I. Roldán-Ruiz

  • Isolation by distance in a continuous population: reconciliation between spatial autocorrelation analysis and population genetics models

    Olivier J Hardy;Xavier Vekemans

  • Chromosome-scale assemblies of plant genomes using nanopore long reads and optical maps

    Caroline Belser;Benjamin Istace;Erwan Denis;Marion Dubarry

  • Chloroplast DNA variation and postglacial recolonization of common ash (Fraxinus excelsior L.) in Europe.

    Myriam Heuertz;S Fineschi;M Anzidei;R Pastorelli

  • Plant self-incompatibility in natural populations: a critical assessment of recent theoretical and empirical advances.

    Vincent Castric;Xavier Vekemans

  • Assessment of genetic diversity within and among germplasm accessions in cultivated sorghum using microsatellite markers

    Y. Djè;M. Heuertz;C. Lefèbvre;X. Vekemans

  • NUCLEAR MICROSATELLITES REVEAL CONTRASTING PATTERNS OF GENETIC STRUCTURE BETWEEN WESTERN AND SOUTHEASTERN EUROPEAN POPULATIONS OF THE COMMON ASH (FRAXINUS EXCELSIOR L.)

    Myriam Heuertz;Jean-Franclois Hausman;Olivier J. Hardy;Giovanni G. Vendramin

  • The effect of subdivision on variation at multi-allelic loci under balancing selection.

    Mikkel H. Schierup;Xavier Vekemans;Deborah Charlesworth

  • Estimating seed vs. pollen dispersal from spatial genetic structure in the common ash.

    Myriam Heuertz;Xavier Vekemans;Xavier Vekemans;JF Hausman;M Palada

  • Genetic variation in the endangered wild apple (Malus sylvestris (L.) Mill.) in Belgium as revealed by amplified fragment length polymorphism and microsatellite markers.

    Els Coart;Xavier Vekemans;Marinus J. M. Smulders;Iris Wagner

  • Gene and allelic genealogies at a gametophytic self-incompatibility locus.

    Xavier Vekemans;Montgomery Slatkin

  • Plant self-incompatibility systems: a molecular evolutionary perspective

    Deborah Charlesworth;Xavier Vekemans;Vincent Castric;Sylvain Glémin

  • QUANTIFYING GENE FLOW FROM SPATIAL GENETIC STRUCTURE DATA IN A METAPOPULATION OF CHAMAECRISTA FASCICULATA (LEGUMINOSAE)

    Charles B. Fenster;Xavier Vekemans;Olivier J. Hardy

  • Repeated adaptive introgression at a gene under multiallelic balancing selection.

    Vincent Castric;Jesper Bechsgaard;Mikkel H. Schierup;Xavier Vekemans

  • The signature of balancing selection: Fungal mating compatibility gene evolution

    Georgiana May;Frank Shaw;Hassan Badrane;Xavier Vekemans

  • On the evolution of heavy‐metal tolerant populations in Armeria maritima: evidence from allozyme variation and reproductive barriers

    Xavier Vekemans;C. Lefebvre

  • The Transition to Self-Compatibility in Arabidopsis thaliana and Evolution within S-Haplotypes over 10 Myr

    Jesper S. Bechsgaard;Vincent Castric;Deborah Charlesworth;Xavier Vekemans

  • MATE AVAILABILITY AND FECUNDITY SELECTION IN MULTI-ALLELIC SELF-INCOMPATIBILITY SYSTEMS IN PLANTS.

    Xavier Vekemans;Mikkel M.H. Schierup;Freddy F.B. Christiansen

Frequent Co-Authors

Olivier J. Hardy
Olivier J. Hardy Université Libre de Bruxelles
Pierre Jacques Meerts
Pierre Jacques Meerts Université Libre de Bruxelles
Mikkel H. Schierup
Mikkel H. Schierup Aarhus University
Myriam Heuertz
Myriam Heuertz University of Bordeaux
Deborah Charlesworth
Deborah Charlesworth University of Edinburgh
Pierre Saumitou-Laprade
Pierre Saumitou-Laprade University of Lille
Hélène Bergès
Hélène Bergès INRAE : Institut national de recherche pour l'agriculture, l'alimentation et l'environnement
Nicolas Bierne
Nicolas Bierne University of Montpellier
Shamil R. Sunyaev
Shamil R. Sunyaev Harvard University
Anne-Laure Jacquemart
Anne-Laure Jacquemart Université Catholique de Louvain

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