Prof Oscar Gaggiotti

Professor

Researcher profile

Phone

+44 (0)1334 463513

Email

oeg@st-andrews.ac.uk

Research areas

Oscar Gaggiotti is a MASTS professor. His research focuses on the study of spatial patterns of genetic diversity to better understand the evolutionary and ecological processes responsible for their origin
and maintenance. To this end he develops ecologically realistic population genetics theory and methods using a framework based on the metapopulation paradigm and Bayesian statistics.

With his research group he has developed several statistical approaches that can simultaneously utilize the information provided by different types of data (genetic, demographic, environmental) and has applied them to two research problems:

• Statistical inference of the demographic history and ecology of populations,
   
  
• Study of local adaptation to understand the molecular bases of phenotypic variation.

PhD supervision

• Xinghu Qin
• Aubrie Booth

Selected publications

• Accounting for stochasticity in demographic compensation along the elevational range of an alpine plant

  Andrello, M., de Villemereuil, P., Carboni, M., Busson, D., Fortin, M-J., Gaggiotti, O. E. & Till-Bottraud, I., 14 Apr 2020, In : Ecology Letters. 23, 5, p. 870-880 11 p.

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• Genetic diversity and connectivity of southern right whales (Eubalaena australis) found in the Brazil and Chile?Peru wintering grounds and the South Georgia (Islas Georgias del Sur) feeding ground

  Carroll, E. L., Ott, P. H., McMillan, L. F., Galletti Vernazzani, B., Neveceralova, P., Vermeulen, E., Gaggiotti, O. E., Andriolo, A., Baker, C. S., Bamford, C., Best, P., Cabrera, E., Calderan, S., Chirife, A., Fewster, R. M., Flores, P. A. C., Frasier, T., Freitas, T. R. O., Groch, K., Hulva, P., Kennedy, A., Leaper, R., Leslie, M. S., Moore, M., Oliveira, L., Seger, J., Stepien, E. N., Valenzuela, L. O., Zerbini, A. & Jackson, J. A., May 2020, In : Journal of Heredity. 111, 3, p. 263-276 14 p.

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• Perturbation drives changing metapopulation dynamics in a top marine predator

  Carroll, E. L., Hall, A., Olsen, M. T., Onoufriou, A. B., Gaggiotti, O. E. & Russell, D. J. F., 10 Jun 2020, In : Proceedings of the Royal Society of London Series B: Biological Sciences. 287, 1928, 10 p., 20200318.

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• Fine-scale population structure and connectivity of bottlenose dolphins, Tursiops truncatus, in European waters and implications for conservation

  Nykänen, M., Louis, M. G. Y. J., Dillane, E., Alfonsi, E., Berrow, S., O'Brien, J., Brownlow, A., Covelo, P., Dabin, W., Deaville, R., de Stephanis, R., Gally, F., Gauffier, P., Ingram, S. N., Lucas, T., Mirimin, L., Penrose, R., Rogan, E., Silva, M. A., Simon-Bouhet, B. & Gaggiotti, O. E., 6 Sep 2019, In : Aquatic Conservation: Marine and Freshwater Ecosystems. 29, S1, p. 197-211

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• Incorporating non-equilibrium dynamics into demographic history inferences of a migratory marine species

  Carroll, E. L., Alderman, R., Bannister, J. L., Bérube, M., Best, P. B., Boren, L., Baker, C. S., Constantine, R., Findlay, K., Harcourt, R., Lemaire, L., Palsbøll, P. J., Patenaude, N. J., Rowntree, V. J., Seger, J., Steel, D., Valenzuela, L. O., Watson, M. & Gaggiotti, O. E., 1 Jan 2019, In : Heredity. 122, 1, p. 53-68

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• Landscape, colonization and life history: their effects on genetic diversity in four sympatric species inhabiting a dendritic system

  Ruzzante, D. E., McCraken, G. R., Salisbury, S. J., Brewis, H., Keefe, D., Gaggiotti, O. E. & Perry, R., Dec 2019, In : Canadian Journal of Fisheries and Aquatic Sciences. 76, 12, p. 2288-2302

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• Making use of the social network in conservation genomics: integrating kinship and network analyses to understand connectivity

  Carroll, E. L. & Gaggiotti, O. E., Mar 2019, In : Molecular Ecology Resources. 19, 2, p. 307-309

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• Differentiation measures for conservation genetics

  Jost, L., Archer, F., Flanagan, S., Gaggiotti, O., Hoban, S. & Latch, E., Aug 2018, In : Evolutionary Applications. 11, 7, p. 1139-1148 10 p.

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• Diversity from genes to ecosystems: a unifying framework to study variation across biological metrics and scales

  Gaggiotti, O. E., Chao, A., Peres-Neto, P., Chiu, C-H., Edwards, C., Fortin, M-J., Jost, L., Richards, C. & Selkoe, K., 17 Jul 2018, In : Evolutionary Applications. 11, 7, p. 1176-1193 18 p.

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• Guidelines for genetic data analysis

  Waples, R. S., Rus Hoelzel, A., Gaggiotti, O., Tiedemann, R., Palsbøll, P. J., Cipriano, F., Jackson, J., Bickham, J. W. & Lang, A. R., 1 Nov 2018, In : Journal of Cetacean Research and Management. 18, p. 33-80 48 p.

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