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
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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.Research output: Contribution to journal ? Article
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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.Research output: Contribution to journal ? Article
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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.Research output: Contribution to journal ? Article
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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. 197-211Research output: Contribution to journal ? Article
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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. 53-68Research output: Contribution to journal ? Article
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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. 2288-2302Research output: Contribution to journal ? Article
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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. 307-309Research output: Contribution to journal ? Article
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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.Research output: Contribution to journal ? Article
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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.Research output: Contribution to journal ? Article
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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.Research output: Contribution to journal ? Article