Bengt Hansson
My research integrates ecology and genetics and has a main focus on causes and consequences of dispersal, isolation and inbreeding at the level of the individual and the population.
Main study species are great reed warbler, blue tit, carrion and hooded crow and Arabidopsis lyrata. I received my PhD in 2003 and after a post-doctoral session in 2003-2006 at the Institute of Evolutionary Biology, University of Edinburgh, UK, I am now working as an Assistant Professor at the Dept. of Animal Ecology, Lund University, funded by the Swedish Research Council.
Two main projects within the CAnMove framework:
- Tracking the long-distance migration and the genetics of migratory traits in the great reed warbler. In this project, we use geolocators to track the migratory movements of individuals on their annual migrationfrom northern Europe to western Africa, and genetic and phenotypic datafrom a long-term pedigree population of great reed warblers in Sweden.
- Landscape genetics and adaptions at expanding range limits in Ischnura damselflies. Here we combine experimental, field-based and genetic approaches to understand temperature adaptations, genetics signature of range expansions and the influence of landscape structure on genetic differentiation and demography in damselflies
Publications
Retrieved from Lund University's publications database
Publications
- 2019
- The origin of the world's smallest flightless bird, the Inaccessible Island Rail Atlantisia rogersi (Aves : Rallidae)
(2019) Molecular Phylogenetics and Evolution
Journal article
- The origin of the world's smallest flightless bird, the Inaccessible Island Rail Atlantisia rogersi (Aves : Rallidae)
- 2018
- Barometer logging reveals new dimensions of individual songbird migration
(2018) Journal of Avian Biology
Journal article - Contrasting results from GWAS and QTL mapping on wing length in great reed warblers
(2018) Molecular Ecology Resources
Journal article - Evidence for sexual conflict over major histocompatibility complex diversity in a wild songbird
(2018) Proceedings of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences
Journal article - Genetic structure of the grey side-gilled sea slug (Pleurobranchaea maculata) in coastal waters of New Zealand
(2018) PLoS ONE
Journal article - Inconclusive evidence for rapid adaptive evolution
(2018) Nature Communications
Journal article (letter) - Insights into avian incomplete dosage compensation : Sex-biased gene expression coevolves with sex chromosome degeneration in the common whitethroat
(2018) Genes
Journal article - Molecular and ecological signatures of an expanding hybrid zone
(2018) Ecology and Evolution
Journal article - Selection, drift, and introgression shape MHC polymorphism in lizards
(2018) Heredity
Journal article - Signatures of local adaptation along environmental gradients in a range-expanding damselfly (Ischnura elegans)
(2018) Molecular Ecology
Journal article - The evolutionary history of colour polymorphism in Ischnura damselflies
(2018) Journal of evolutionary biology
Journal article - Why Do Sex Chromosomes Stop Recombining?
(2018) Trends in Genetics
Journal article
- Barometer logging reveals new dimensions of individual songbird migration
- 2017
- Contrasting patterns of nucleotide polymorphism suggest different selective regimes within different parts of the PgiC1 gene in Festuca ovina L
(2017) Hereditas
Journal article - Individual consistency of long-distance migration in a songbird: significant repeatability of autumn route, stopovers and wintering sites but not in timing of migration
(2017) Journal of Avian Biology1994-01-01+01:00
Journal article - Natural selection acts on floral traits associated with selfing rate among populations of Mixed-Mating collinsia heterophylla (Plantaginaceae)
(2017) International Journal of Plant Sciences
Journal article - Sex chromosome evolution : Historical insights and future perspectives
(2017) Proceedings of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences
Journal article review - The endangered São Tomé Grosbeak Neospiza concolor is the world's largest canary
(2017) Ibis
Journal article
- Contrasting patterns of nucleotide polymorphism suggest different selective regimes within different parts of the PgiC1 gene in Festuca ovina L
- 2016
- Automated analysis of song structure in complex birdsongs
(2016) Animal Behaviour
Journal article (comment) - Balance between inbreeding and outcrossing in a nannandrous species, the moss Homalothecium lutescens.
(2016) Heredity
Journal article - Cross-continental migratory connectivity and spatiotemporal migratory patterns in the great reed warbler
(2016) Journal of Avian Biology1994-01-01+01:00
Journal article - Detecting Polygenic Evolution: Problems, Pitfalls, and Promises.
(2016) Trends in Genetics
Journal article review - Gene expression under thermal stress varies across a geographic range expansion front.
(2016) Molecular Ecology
Journal article - Multiple instances of paraphyletic species and cryptic taxa revealed by mitochondrial and nuclear RAD data for Calandrella larks (Aves : Alaudidae)
(2016) Molecular Phylogenetics and Evolution
Journal article - Odonata (dragonflies and damselflies) as a bridge between ecology and evolutionary genomics
(2016) Frontiers in Zoology
Journal article review - Solutions for Archiving Data in Long-Term Studies: A Reply to Whitlock et al.
(2016) Trends in Ecology & Evolution
Journal article (letter) - Transcriptome profiling in the damselfly Ischnura elegans identifies genes with sex-biased expression
(2016) BMC Genomics
Journal article
- Automated analysis of song structure in complex birdsongs
- 2015
- Archiving Primary Data: Solutions for Long-Term Studies.
(2015) Trends in Ecology & Evolution
Journal article - Chronic infection. Hidden costs of infection: chronic malaria accelerates telomere degradation and senescence in wild birds.
(2015) Science
Journal article - Disentangling the complex evolutionary history of the Western Palearctic blue tits (Cyanistes spp.) - phylogenomic analyses suggest radiation by multiple colonisation events and subsequent isolation.
(2015) Molecular Ecology
Journal article - Evolutionary consequences of climate-induced range shifts in insects.
(2015) Biological Reviews
Journal article - Genetic diversity and population structure of the range restricted rock firefinch Lagonosticta sanguinodorsalis
(2015) Conservation Genetics
Journal article - Inbreeding affects gene expression differently in two self-incompatible Arabidopsis lyrata populations with similar levels of inbreeding depression.
(2015) Molecular biology and evolution
Journal article - Inferring the links between breeding and wintering grounds in a Palearctic-African migratory bird, the Great Reed Warbler, using mitochondrial DNA data
(2015) African Zoology
Journal article - Latitudinal shift in thermal niche breadth results from thermal release during a climate-mediated range expansion
(2015) Journal of Biogeography
Journal article - Maternal and genetic factors determine early life telomere length
(2015) Royal Society of London. Proceedings B. Biological Sciences
Journal article - Population structure and genetic diversity in the nannandrous moss Homalothecium lutescens: does the dwarf male system facilitate gene flow?
(2015) BMC Evolutionary Biology
Journal article - Selection and evolutionary potential of spring arrival phenology in males and females of a migratory songbird
(2015) Journal of evolutionary biology
Journal article review - Strong maternal effects on gene expression in Arabidopsis lyrata hybrids.
(2015) Molecular biology and evolution
Journal article
- Archiving Primary Data: Solutions for Long-Term Studies.
- 2014
- Assessing Multivariate Constraints to Evolution across Ten Long-Term Avian Studies.
(2014) PLoS ONE
Journal article - De novo transcriptome of Ischnura elegans provides insights into sensory biology, colour and vision genes
(2014) BMC Genomics
Journal article - Does inbreeding affect gene expression in birds?
(2014) Biology letters
Journal article - Dual phylogenetic origins of Nigerian lions (Panthera leo)
(2014) Ecology and Evolution
Journal article - Evaluating preservation medium for the storage of DNA in African lion Panthera leo faecal samples
(2014) Current Zoology2009-01-01+01:00
Journal article - Individual Identification and Genetic Variation of Lions (Panthera leo) from Two Protected Areas in Nigeria.
(2014) PLoS ONE
Journal article - Intralocus sexual conflict over wing length in a wild migratory bird
(2014) American Naturalist
Journal article - Microsatellite markers for population genetic studies of the rock firefinch, Lagonosticta sanguinodorsalis
(2014) African Zoology
Journal article - Pronounced Fixation, Strong Population Differentiation and Complex Population History in the Canary Islands Blue Tit Subspecies Complex
(2014) PLoS ONE
Journal article - Sexual selection and genetic colour polymorphisms in animals.
(2014) Molecular Ecology
Journal article review - The interplay between local ecology, divergent selection and genetic drift in population divergence of a sexually antagonistic female trait
(2014) Evolution
Journal article
- Assessing Multivariate Constraints to Evolution across Ten Long-Term Avian Studies.
- 2013
- Annual cycle and migration strategies of a trans-saharan migratory songbird: a geolocator study in the great reed warbler.
(2013) PLoS ONE
Journal article - Gene-flow across the European crow hybrid zone - a spatial simulation
(2013) Journal of Avian Biology1994-01-01+01:00
Journal article - Male-biased recombination in odonates: insights from a linkage map of the damselfly Ischnura elegans.
(2013) Journal of Genetics
Journal article - Ontogenetic shifts in male mating preference and morph-specific polyandry in a female colour polymorphic insect
(2013) BMC Evolutionary Biology
Journal article - Speciation genetics. Uncovering the genomic signatures of species differences in flycatchers.
(2013) Heredity
Journal article (comment) - Strong Inbreeding Depression in Two Scandinavian Populations of the Self-Incompatible Perennial Herb Arabidopsis Lyrata
(2013) Evolution
Journal article
- Annual cycle and migration strategies of a trans-saharan migratory songbird: a geolocator study in the great reed warbler.
- 2012
- Ancestral polymorphism at the major histocompatibility complex (MHCII ss) in the Nesospiza bunting species complex and its sister species (Rowettia goughensis)
(2012) BMC Evolutionary Biology
Journal article - Evidence of a neo-sex chromosome in birds.
(2012) Heredity
Journal article - Hybridization but no evidence for backcrossing and introgression in a sympatric population of great reed warblers and clamorous reed warblers.
(2012) PLoS ONE
Journal article - Patterns of molecular evolution of an avian neo-sex chromosome.
(2012) Molecular biology and evolution
Journal article - Sex-biased gene expression on the avian z chromosome: highly expressed genes show higher male-biased expression.
(2012) PLoS ONE
Journal article - Vicariance divergence and gene flow among islet populations of an endemic lizard.
(2012) Molecular Ecology
Journal article
- Ancestral polymorphism at the major histocompatibility complex (MHCII ss) in the Nesospiza bunting species complex and its sister species (Rowettia goughensis)
- 2011
- A SVD-based classification of bird singing in different time-frequency domains using multitapers
(2011) European Signal Processing Conference
Conference paper - Environmental and climatic determinants of molecular diversity and genetic population structure in a coenagrionid damselfly.
(2011) PLoS ONE
Journal article - Introgression and rapid species turnover in sympatric damselflies
(2011) BMC Evolutionary Biology
Journal article - Linking genetic mechanisms of heterozygosity-fitness correlations to footprints of selection at single loci
(2011) Evolutionary Ecology
Journal article - Population genetic structure in the paddyfield warbler (Acrocephalus agricola Jerd.)
(2011) Current Zoology2009-01-01+01:00
Journal article - Sex allocation in Savi’s Warblers Locustella luscinioides: multiple factors affect seasonal trends in brood sex ratios.
(2011) Behavioural Ecology and Sociobiology
Journal article - Stable isotope ratios in winter-grown feathers of Great Reed Warblers Acrocephalus arundinaceus, Clamorous Reed Warblers A. stentoreus and their hybrids in a sympatric breeding population in Kazakhstan
(2011) Ibis
Journal article - The influence of stochastic and selective forces in the population divergence of female colour polymorphism in damselflies of the genus Ischnura
(2011) Heredity
Journal article - The sex-biased brain: sexual dimorphism in gene expression in two species of songbirds
(2011) BMC Genomics
Journal article
- A SVD-based classification of bird singing in different time-frequency domains using multitapers
- 2010
- A genome-wide set of 106 microsatellite markers for the blue tit (Cyanistes caeruleus)
(2010) Molecular Ecology Resources
Journal article - A strong quantitative trait locus for wing length on chromosome 2 in a wild population of great reed warblers.
(2010) Proceedings of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences
Journal article - Avian genome evolution: insights from a linkage map of the blue tit (Cyanistes caeruleus).
(2010) Heredity
Journal article - Development of 12 polymorphic microsatellite loci in Ischnura elegans (Odonata: Coenagrionidae)
(2010) Molecular Ecology Resources
Journal article - Do microsatellites reflect genome-wide genetic diversity in natural populations? A comment on Väli et al. (2008).
(2010) Molecular Ecology
Journal article - Island biology and morphological divergence of the Skyros wall lizard Podarcis gaigeae: a combined role for local selection and genetic drift on color morph frequency divergence?
(2010) BMC Evolutionary Biology
Journal article - Low frequency of extra-pair paternity in Savi's Warblers (Locustella luscinioides)
(2010) Behaviour
Journal article - New methods to identify conserved microsatellite loci and develop primer sets of high cross-species utility - as demonstrated for birds
(2010) Molecular Ecology Resources
Journal article - Permanent Genetic Resources added to Molecular Ecology Resources Database 1 December 2009-31 January 2010
(2010) Molecular Ecology Resources
Journal article - Population size of lions in Yankari Game Reserve as revealed by faecal DNA sampling
(2010) African Journal of Ecology
Journal article - The use (or misuse) of microsatellite allelic distances in the context of inbreeding and conservation genetics.
(2010) Molecular Ecology
Journal article - Why does dosage compensation differ between XY and ZW taxa?
(2010) Trends in Genetics
Journal article
- A genome-wide set of 106 microsatellite markers for the blue tit (Cyanistes caeruleus)
- 2009
- An analysis of population genetic differentiation and genotype-phenotype association across the hybrid zone of carrion and hooded crows using microsatellites and MC1R.
(2009) Molecular Ecology
Journal article - Isolation and characterization of polymorphic microsatellite loci for the Skyros wall lizard Podarcis gaigeae (Squamata: Lacertidae)
(2009) Molecular Ecology Resources
Journal article
- An analysis of population genetic differentiation and genotype-phenotype association across the hybrid zone of carrion and hooded crows using microsatellites and MC1R.
- 2008
- A microarray for large-scale genomic and transcriptional analyses of the zebra finch (Taeniopygia guttata) and other passerines
(2008) Molecular Ecology Notes
Journal article - An analysis of hatching success in the great reed warbler Acrocephalus arundinaceus
(2008) Oikos
Journal article - Common cuckoo Cuculus canorus parasitism, antiparasite defence and gene flow in closely located populations of great reed warblers Acrocephalus arundinaceus
(2008) Journal of Avian Biology1994-01-01+01:00
Journal article - Cross-species testing of 27 pre-existing microsatellites in Podarcis gaigeae and Podarcis hispanica (Squamata: Lacertidae)
(2008) Molecular Ecology Resources
Journal article - Dynamics of parasitemia of malaria parasites in a naturally and experimentally infected migratory songbird, the great reed warbler Acrocephalus arundinaceus
(2008) Experimental Parasitology
Journal article - Estimating heritabilities and genetic correlations: comparing the 'animal model' with parent-offspring regression using data from a natural population.
(2008) PLoS ONE
Journal article - Heterozygosity-fitness correlations within inbreeding classes: local or genome-wide effects?
(2008) Conservation Genetics
Journal article - Identification of 20 polymorphic microsatellite loci in European crow (Corvus corone) from existing passerine loci
(2008) Molecular Ecology Notes
Journal article - Isotope signatures in winter moulted feathers predict malaria prevalence in a breeding avian host
(2008) Oecologia
Journal article - Postglacial colonisation patterns and the role of isolation and expansion in driving diversification in a passerine bird.
(2008) PLoS ONE
Journal article
- A microarray for large-scale genomic and transcriptional analyses of the zebra finch (Taeniopygia guttata) and other passerines
- 2007
- Disentangeling the effects of inbreeding and other factors on hatching success in a passerine bird using Bayesian GLMMs
(2007) Oikos
Journal article - Gene order and recombination rate in homologous chromosome regions of the chicken and a passerine bird
(2007) Molecular biology and evolution
Journal article - Linkage mapping of AFLP markers in a wild population of great reed warblers: importance of heterozygosity and number of genotyped individuals
(2007) Molecular Ecology
Journal article - Lost and found: the enigmatic large-billed reed warbler Acrocephalus orinus rediscovered after 139 years
(2007) Journal of Avian Biology1994-01-01+01:00
Journal article - No evidence for inbreeding avoidance in a great reed warbler population
(2007) Behavioral Ecology
Journal article - Temporal dynamics and diversity of avian malaria parasites in a single host species
(2007) Journal of Animal Ecology
Journal article
- Disentangeling the effects of inbreeding and other factors on hatching success in a passerine bird using Bayesian GLMMs
- 2006
- Identification of 15 polymorphic microsatellite loci in the Principe seedeater (Serinus rufobrunneus) and assessment of their utility in nine other Serinus species (Fringillidae, Aves)
(2006) Molecular Ecology Notes
Journal article - Performance of marker-based relatedness estimators in natural populations of outbred vertebrates
(2006) Genetics
Journal article - Selection for Heterozygosity Gives Hope to a Wild Population of Inbred Wolves
(2006) PLoS ONE
Journal article
- Identification of 15 polymorphic microsatellite loci in the Principe seedeater (Serinus rufobrunneus) and assessment of their utility in nine other Serinus species (Fringillidae, Aves)
- 2005
- Associations between malaria and MHC genes in a migratory songbird
(2005) Royal Society of London. Proceedings B. Biological Sciences
Journal article - Genetic variation in two endangered Acrocephalus species compared to a widespread congener: estimates based on functional and random loci
(2005) Animal Conservation
Journal article - Linkage mapping reveals sex-dimorphic map distances in a passerine bird
(2005) Royal Society of London. Proceedings B. Biological Sciences
Journal article
- Associations between malaria and MHC genes in a migratory songbird
- 2004
- Between-year variation of MHC allele frequencies in great reed warblers: selection or drift?
(2004) Journal of evolutionary biology
Journal article - Breeding synchrony does not affect extra-pair paternity in great reed warblers
(2004) Behaviour
Journal article - Do female great reed warblers seek extra-pair fertilizations to avoid inbreeding?
(2004) Royal Society of London. Proceedings B. Biological Sciences
Journal article - Does linkage disequilibrium generate heterozygosity-fitness correlations in great reed warblers?
(2004) Evolution
Journal article - Lifetime fitness of short- and long-distance dispersing great reed warblers
(2004) Evolution
Journal article - Marker-based relatedness predicts egg-hatching failure in great reed warblers
(2004) Conservation Genetics
Journal article - Molecular evidence of a reed warbler x great reed warbler hybrid (Acrocephalus scirpaceus x A-arundinaceus) in Belgium
(2004) Journal für Ornithologie1852-12-31+01:002004-01-01+01:00
Journal article - Observation of a ZZW female in a natural population: implications for avian sex determination
(2004) Royal Society of London. Proceedings B. Biological Sciences
Journal article
- Between-year variation of MHC allele frequencies in great reed warblers: selection or drift?
- 2003
- A new approach to study dispersal: immigration of novel alleles reveals female-biased dispersal in great reed warblers
(2003) Molecular Ecology
Journal article - Dispersal, inbreeding and fitness in natural populations
(2003)
Dissertation - Heritability of dispersal in the great reed warbler
(2003) Ecology Letters
Journal article - Hybridisation between great reed warblers Acrocephalus arundinaceus and clamorous reed warblers A. stentoreus: morphological and molecular evidence.
(2003) Avian Science
Journal article
- A new approach to study dispersal: immigration of novel alleles reveals female-biased dispersal in great reed warblers
- 2002
- Brief report - Isolation and cross-species amplification of microsatellite loci in the Siberian jay (Perisoreus infaustus)
(2002) Hereditas
Journal article - On the correlation between heterozygosity and fitness in natural populations
(2002) Molecular Ecology
Journal article review - Predictors of natal dispersal in great reed warblers: results from small and large census areas
(2002) Journal of Avian Biology1994-01-01+01:00
Journal article - Restricted dispersal in a long-distance migrant bird with patchy distribution, the great reed warbler
(2002) Oecologia
Journal article
- Brief report - Isolation and cross-species amplification of microsatellite loci in the Siberian jay (Perisoreus infaustus)
- 2001
- Microsatellite diversity predicts recruitment of sibling great reed warblers
(2001) Royal Society of London. Proceedings B. Biological Sciences
Journal article
- Microsatellite diversity predicts recruitment of sibling great reed warblers
- 2000
- Brood sex ratios, female harem status and resources for nestling provisioning in the great reed warbler (Acrocephalus arundinaceus)
(2000) Behavioral Ecology and Sociobiology
Journal article - Host specificity in avian blood parasites: a study of Plasmodium and Haemoproteus mitochondrial DNA amplified from birds
(2000) Royal Society of London. Proceedings B. Biological Sciences
Journal article - Increase of genetic variation over time in a recently founded population of great reed warblers (Acrocephalus arundinaceus) revealed by microsatellites and DNA fingerprinting
(2000) Molecular Ecology
Journal article - Partial albinism in a semi-isolated population of great reed warblers
(2000) Hereditas
Journal article - Patterns of nest predation contribute to polygyny in the Great Reed Warbler
(2000) Ecology
Journal article - The quality and the timing hypotheses evaluated using data on great reed warblers
(2000) Oikos
Journal article
- Brood sex ratios, female harem status and resources for nestling provisioning in the great reed warbler (Acrocephalus arundinaceus)
- 1997
- Infanticide in great reed warblers: secondary females destroy eggs of primary females
(1997) Animal Behaviour
Journal article - Sex ratio variation among broods of great reed warblers Acrocephalus arundinaceus
(1997) Molecular Ecology
Journal article
- Infanticide in great reed warblers: secondary females destroy eggs of primary females
