¨ Anders Ödeen, Animal ecology EBC, UU

Anders Ödeen

PhD, Animal Ecology

I am on a Swedish Research Council Postdoctoral Fellowship at Simon Fraser University, BC, Canada, collaborating with Arne Mooers.

During 2004 my address is:

Anders Ödeen
Dept. Biological Sciences
Simon Fraser University
8888 University drive
Burnaby BC V5A 1S6
Canada

e-mail: aodeen_a_sfu.ca

Research interest:

My main research interest is speciation processes in laboratory and natural populations with special reference to the Yellow Wagtail complex (Motacilla flava), and the distribution, plumage morphology, and phylogeny of its races. The picture above shows an adult male of the race/hybrid superciliaris, caught during spring migration in Eilat, Israel

My interest for the wagtails (genus Motacilla) also concerns the systematics and phylogeography of the white wagtail (Motacilla alba) and its closest relatives, the African pied wagtail (M.aguimp), Japanese wagtail (M. grandis), and the Indian large pied wagtail (M. maderaspatensis). This very diverse species group has inspired a cooperation with Per Alström at the Department of Systematic zoology.

I am also interested in general phylogeographic processes and patterns, and speciation processes, such as Kaneshiro's peripatry model. Other fields of interest include bird-plumage colour morphometry and molecular and phylogenetic aspects of avian colour vision. My focus here is mainly on the perceptional and evolutionary significance of plumage-vision interactions.

Wagtail pictures

Field work pictures

Publications:

Ödeen, A. & Björklund M. 2003. Dynamics in the evolution of sexual traits: losses and gains, radiation and convergence in yellow wagtails (Motacilla flava). - Mol. Ecol. 12: 2113-2130.

Ödeen, A. and Håstad, O. 2003. Complex distribution of avian color vision systems revealed by sequencing the SWS1 opsin from total DNA. - Mol. Biol. Evol. 20: 855-861.

Rintamäki, P.T., Håstad, O., Ödeen, A., Alatalo, R.V., Höglund, J. and Lundberg, A. 2002. Sexual selection, colour perception and coloured leg rings in grouse (Tetraonidae). - Avian Science 2: 145-152.

Ödeen, A. and Florin, A-B. 2002. Sexual selection and peripatric speciation: the Kaneshiro model revisited. - J. Evol. Biol. 15: 301-306.

Florin, A-B. and Ödeen, A. 2002. Laboratory environments are not conducive for allopatric speciation. - J. Evol. Biol. 15: 10-19.

Ödeen, A. and Florin, A-B. 2000. Effective population size may limit the power of laboratory experiments to demonstrate sympatric and parapatric speciation. - Proc. R. Soc. Lond. B. 267: 601-606.