Group Leader: Hans Ellegren

This is a broad area of research within the Department with a number of on-going projects. We use a combination of in silico approaches and in-house DNA sequencing and SNP analysis to study evolutionary processes at the sequence and genomic levels.

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Group Leader: Mattias Jakobsson

The research focuses on understanding evolutionary and demographic processes by using mathematical models and developing and utilizing statistical and computational methods for analyzing large genomic data sets. Specifically, we are interested in: human evolutionary genetics and inferring demographic history based population-genetic data, theoretical population genetics, developing methods for searching for genes targeted by recent selection, models of founder events and their implications for patterns of genetic variation, and the impact of demography on gene-mapping.

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Group Leader: Tanja Slotte

Mating system shifts occur frequently in plant evolution, and are often associated with marked changes in floral traits. We are interested in the population genetic consequences of these shifts, and in the role of natural selection for floral evolution in association with mating system shifts.

To address these questions, we integrate population genetic modelling with data on the genetic basis of floral evolution and gene expression analysis.

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Group Leader: Urban Friberg

Sexual selection promotes evolution of different phenotypes in males and females. Evolution of sex-specific phenotypes is however more complex than evolution through natural selection, since the sexes share the same genome. In our research group we are interested in the phenotypic and genetic consequence of sexual selection. We are particularly interested in the evolution of sex-differences in life-history traits with an emphasis on aging, inbreeding depression and gene expression. Most of these questions we address using the model organism Drosophila melanogaster.

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Group Leader: Hanna Johannesson

The one and a half million fungal species of the world possess an astonishing diversity of ecological and evolutionary strategies. Our group uses the model eukaryote filamentous fungus Neurospora to explore i) the evolution of reproductive systems and their connections to life history traits and ii) the evolution of reproductive isolation. The ultimate goal of our work is to use genetic and genomic tools to test the generality of evolutional paradigms in Neurospora.

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Group Leader: Jochen Wolf

We explore evolutionary processes in animal systems largely from a genetic perspective. Current research interests in the group include the genetics of speciation with a growing interest in the role of gene expression, the evolutionary implications of animal behaviour and the forces underlying molecular sequence evolution. On the methodological side, we engage in muddy-boot field work, run the pipette in the wet lab and apply population genetic theory to large scale data sets.

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Group Leader: Anders Götherström

DNA from prehistoric tissue provides for the possibility to go back in time and study changes as they happened. We are using this possibility to study cattle domestication, historic cattle breeding, and the early colonisation of Scandinavia.

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Group Leader: Simone Immler

Eukaryotic sexual reproduction implies the existence of two sexes (males and females) and the existence of two life phases (haploid and diploid). Selection acting differently in the two sexes and the two phases causes conflicts, which affect evolutionary processes. With the help of comparative, experimental, theoretical and genomic tools we address questions about the causes and consequences of sexual selection across ploidy levels in animals.

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