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List of works by Lewis G Spurgin

454 screening of individual MHC variation in an endemic island passerine

scientific article published on 18 December 2014

Adaptive landscape genetics and malaria across divergent island bird populations

scientific article published on 02 October 2019

Biogeographical patterns and co-occurrence of pathogenic infection across island populations of Berthelot's pipit (Anthus berthelotii).

scientific article published on 9 October 2011

Comment on Gohli et al. (2013): "Does promiscuity explain differences in levels of genetic diversity across passerine birds?".

scientific article published on 13 August 2013

Consequences of sibling rivalry vary across life in a passerine bird.

scientific article published on 19 December 2016

DSYB catalyses the key step of dimethylsulfoniopropionate biosynthesis in many phytoplankton.

scientific article published on 26 February 2018

Drift, not selection, shapes toll-like receptor variation among oceanic island populations

scientific article published on 28 October 2015

Gene conversion rapidly generates major histocompatibility complex diversity in recently founded bird populations

scientific article published on 22 November 2011

Genetic and phenotypic divergence in an island bird: isolation by distance, by colonization or by adaptation?

scientific article published on 18 February 2014

Genetic architecture of dispersal behaviour in the post-harvest pest and model organism Tribolium castaneum

scientific article published in 2023

Genomic associations with bill length and disease reveal drift and selection across island bird populations

scientific article published on 26 January 2018

Genomic associations with poxvirus across divergent island populations in Berthelot's pipit

scientific article published on 08 April 2022

Genomic variation, population history and within-archipelago adaptation between island bird populations

scientific article published on 03 February 2021

High-utility conserved avian microsatellite markers enable parentage and population studies across a wide range of species

scientific article

How pathogens drive genetic diversity: MHC, mechanisms and misunderstandings.

scientific article published on 13 January 2010

Joint care can outweigh costs of nonkin competition in communal breeders.

scientific article published on 20 October 2017

Kinship and familiarity mitigate costs of social conflict between Seychelles warbler neighbors

scientific article published on 9 October 2017

Landscape-scale variation in an anthropogenic factor shapes immune gene variation within a wild population

scientific article published on 13 July 2016

Lineages evolved under stronger sexual selection show superior ability to invade conspecific competitor populations

MHC heterozygosity and survival in red junglefowl

scientific article published in August 2010

Microsatellite resources for Passeridae species: a predicted microsatellite map of the house sparrow Passer domesticus

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Museum DNA reveals the demographic history of the endangered Seychelles warbler

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New methods to identify conserved microsatellite loci and develop primer sets of high cross-species utility - as demonstrated for birds

scientific article published on 22 October 2009

Polyandry provides reproductive and genetic benefits in colonising populations

scientific article published on 12 September 2020

Population history, gene flow, and bottlenecks in island populations of a secondary seed disperser, the southern grey shrike (Lanius meridionalis koenigi)

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Pre- and postcopulatory sexual selection favor aggressive, young males in polyandrous groups of red junglefowl

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Recent natural selection causes adaptive evolution of an avian polygenic trait.

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Response to Perrier and Charmantier: On the importance of time scales when studying adaptive evolution.

scientific article published on 4 April 2019

Runs of homozygosity reveal past bottlenecks and contemporary inbreeding across diverging populations of an island‐colonizing bird

scientific article published in 2023

Senescence in the wild: Insights from a long-term study on Seychelles warblers

scientific article published on 04 September 2015

Sexual selection protects against extinction

scientific article published on 18 May 2015

Spatio-temporal variation in lifelong telomere dynamics in a long-term ecological study

scientific article published on 10 August 2017

Telomere length reveals cumulative individual and transgenerational inbreeding effects in a passerine bird

scientific article published on 17 May 2016

The impact of translocations on neutral and functional genetic diversity within and among populations of the Seychelles warbler

scientific article

Tribolium beetles as a model system in evolution and ecology

scientific article published in 2021

Using a real-world network to model localized COVID-19 control strategies

scientific article published on 07 August 2020