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Adaptive introgression from Pacific herring to Atlantic herring in the brackish Baltic Sea Open

Mafalda S. Ferreira, Sabine Felkel, Angela P. Fuentes‐Pardo, Jake Goodall, Dandan Wang , et al. · 2025

The genomic era has revealed that interspecific gene flow can play an important role in adaptive evolution. Here, we report a striking case of adaptive introgression from Pacific into Atlantic herring following the colonization of the brac…

Pathological and bacteriological findings in sows, finisher pigs, and piglets, being culled for lameness Open

Magdalena Jacobson, Marika Berglund, Mats E. Pettersson, M Sandström, Frida Matti , et al. · 2025

Genetic Adaptation to Brackish Water and Spawning Season in European Cisco Open

Qiaoling Deng, Jake Goodall, Mikaela Bergenius, Ignas Bunikis, Mats E. Pettersson , et al. · 2025

How species adapt to diverse environmental conditions is essential for understanding evolution and the maintenance of biodiversity. The European cisco ( Coregonus albula ) is a salmonid that occurs in both fresh and brackish water, and thi…

Whole Genome Sequencing Reveals How Plasticity and Genetic Differentiation Underlie Sympatric Morphs of Arctic Charr Open

Khrystyna Kurta, Mariano Olivera Fedi, Kendall Baker, Tom Barker, Leah Catchpole , et al. · 2025

Salmonids have a remarkable ability to form sympatric morphs after postglacial colonisation of freshwater lakes. These morphs often differ in morphology, feeding and spawning behaviour. Here, we explored the genetic basis of morph differen…

Unheralded high MHC Class II polymorphism in the abundant Atlantic herring resolved by long-read sequencing Open

Minal Jamsandekar, Fahime Mohamadnejad Sangdehi, Florian Berg, Michael F. Criscitiello, Brian W. Davis , et al. · 2025

Major Histocompatibility Complex (MHC) genes are the most polymorphic in vertebrate genomes due to their important function of presenting a diversity of peptides from pathogens to initiate an adaptive immune response. Here, we have charact…

Genome variation in three Anthophora bee species reflects divergent demographic histories Open

Demetris Taliadoros, André E. R. Soares, Guilherme Borges Dias, Ignas Bunikis, Martin Pippel , et al. · 2025

Experimental Results of Local Backprojection for Monostatic THz SAR Imaging Open

Yevhen Ivanenko, Aman Batra, Viet T. Vu, Mats E. Pettersson, Thomas Kaiser · 2025

The use of THz frequencies has enabled the opportunity to perform synthetic-aperture radar (SAR) imaging at the sub-mm level. It is of great interest for applications where high-resolution remote sensing in short range is required. However…

Whole genome sequencing reveals how plasticity and genetic differentiation underlie sympatric morphs of Arctic charr Open

Khrystyna Kurta, Mariano Olivera Fedi, Kendall Baker, Tom Barker, Leah Catchpole , et al. · 2025

Salmonids have a remarkable ability to form sympatric morphs after postglacial colonization of freshwater lakes. These morphs often exhibit differences in morphology, feeding, and spawning behaviour. Here we explore the genetics of morph d…

Evolution of fast-growing piscivorous herring in the young Baltic Sea Open

Jake Goodall, Mats E. Pettersson, Ulf Bergström, Mats E. Pettersson, Bo Delling , et al. · 2024

Molecular basis of attack patterns during cock fighting Open

Tsuyoshi Shimmura, Takuma Kurachi, Nima Rafati, Kei Shimura, Tatsuhiko Goto , et al. · 2024

Aggression is an essential animal behaviour for survival, particularly in situations where fighting cannot be avoided. In such situations, the choice of attack pattern (i.e. biting, charging, or defending) is critical. However, the molecul…

The origin and maintenance of supergenes contributing to ecological adaptation in Atlantic herring Open

Minal Jamsandekar, Mafalda S. Ferreira, Mats E. Pettersson, Edward D. Farrell, Brian W. Davis , et al. · 2024

THz SAR Bistatic 3D Global Backprojection Algorithm with Phase Control Open

Yevhen Ivanenko, Aman Batra, Viet T. Vu, Mats E. Pettersson, Thomas Kaiser · 2024

Exploration of THz frequencies has enabled new applications in the areas, where high-resolution short-range remote sensing is of great interest. At the high frequency ranges like THz or sub-THz, synthetic aperture radar (SAR) image formati…

Genetic Stock Identification Reveals Mismatches Between Management Areas and Population Genetic Structure in a Migratory Pelagic Fish Open

Gaute Wilhelmsen Seljestad, María Quintela, Dorte Bekkevold, Christophe Pampoulie, Edward D. Farrell , et al. · 2024

Sustainable fisheries management is important for the continued harvest of the world's marine resources, especially as they are increasingly challenged by a range of climatic and anthropogenic factors. One of the pillars of sustainable fis…

Unraveling the Genetics of Shared Clinical and Serological Manifestations in Patients With Systemic Inflammatory Autoimmune Diseases Open

Matteo Bianchi, Sergey V. Kozyrev, Antonella Notarnicola, Johanna K. Sandling, Mats E. Pettersson , et al. · 2024

Objective Systemic inflammatory autoimmune diseases (SIADs) such as systemic lupus erythematosus (SLE), primary Sjögren disease (pSS), and idiopathic inflammatory myopathies (myositis) are complex conditions characterized by shared circula…

Limited Parallelism in Genetic Adaptation to Brackish Water Bodies in European Sprat and Atlantic Herring Open

Mats E. Pettersson, María Quintela, François Besnier, Qiaoling Deng, Florian Berg , et al. · 2024

The European sprat is a small plankton-feeding clupeid present in the northeastern Atlantic Ocean, in the Mediterranean Sea, and in the brackish Baltic Sea and Black Sea. This species is the target of a major fishery and, therefore, an acc…

Copy number variation and elevated genetic diversity at immune trait loci in Atlantic and Pacific herring Open

Fahime Mohamadnejad Sangdehi, Minal Jamsandekar, Erik D. Enbody, Mats E. Pettersson, Leif Andersson · 2024

Background Genome-wide comparisons of populations are widely used to explore the patterns of nucleotide diversity and sequence divergence to provide knowledge on how natural selection and genetic drift affect the genome. In this study we h…

Contrasting segregation patterns among endogenous retroviruses across the koala population Open

Mette Lillie, Mats E. Pettersson, Patric Jern · 2024

Conservation of Affinity Rather Than Sequence Underlies a Dynamic Evolution of the Motif-Mediated p53/MDM2 Interaction in Ray-Finned Fishes Open

Filip Mihalič, Dahiana Arcila, Mats E. Pettersson, Pouria Farkhondehkish, Eva Andersson , et al. · 2024

The transcription factor and cell cycle regulator p53 is marked for degradation by the ubiquitin ligase MDM2. The interaction between these 2 proteins is mediated by a conserved binding motif in the disordered p53 transactivation domain (p…

Contrasting segregation patterns among endogenous retroviruses across the koala population Open

Mette Lillie, Mats E. Pettersson, Patric Jern · 2023

Koalas ( Phascolarctos cinereus ) are subject to retroviral infections by the koala retrovirus (KoRV), resulting in accumulation of heritable endogenous KoRV in the koala germline. Like other vertebrates, koalas have experienced a history …

CNSC-40. HARNESSING EVOLUTIONARY CONSTRAINT IDENTIFIES POTENTIAL NON-CODING DRIVERS IN BRAIN TUMORS Open

Ananya Roy, Raphaela Pensch, Sharadha Sakthikumar, Sergey V. Kozyrev, Jessika Nordin , et al. · 2023

The somatic mutational landscape of brain tumors has primarily focused on coding mutations for driver gene discovery. Non-coding mutations can drive cancer by targeting regulatory elements and be valuable biomarkers and therapeutic targets…

How Fish Population Genomics Can Promote Sustainable Fisheries: A Road Map Open

Leif Andersson, Dorte Bekkevold, Florian Berg, Edward D. Farrell, Sabine Felkel , et al. · 2023

Maintenance of genetic diversity in marine fishes targeted by commercial fishing is a grand challenge for the future. Most of these species are abundant and therefore important for marine ecosystems and food security. Here, we present a ro…

Copy number variation and elevated genetic diversity at immune trait loci in Atlantic and Pacific herring Open

Minal Jamsandekar, Erik D. Enbody, Mats E. Pettersson, Leif Andersson · 2023

Atlantic and Pacific herring are sister species that diverged about 2 million years ago. Here we describe a genome comparison of the two species that reveal high genome-wide differentiation as expected for two distinct species but with isl…

The origin and maintenance of supergenes contributing to ecological adaptation in Atlantic herring Open

Minal Jamsandekar, Mafalda S. Ferreira, Mats E. Pettersson, Edward D. Farell, Brian W. Davis , et al. · 2023

Chromosomal inversions are associated with local adaptation in many species. However, questions regarding how they are formed, maintained and impact various other evolutionary processes remain elusive. Here, using a large genomic dataset o…

Low mutation rate in epaulette sharks is consistent with a slow rate of evolution in sharks Open

Ashley T. Sendell‐Price, Frank J. Tulenko, Mats E. Pettersson, Kang Du, Margo Montandon , et al. · 2023

Conservation of affinity rather than sequence underlies a dynamic evolution of the motif-mediated p53/MDM2 interaction in teleosts Open

Filip Mihalič, Dahiana Arcila, Mats E. Pettersson, Pouria Farkhondehkish, Eva Andersson , et al. · 2023

The transcription factor and cell cycle regulator p53 is marked for degradation by the ubiquitin ligase MDM2. The interaction between these two proteins is mediated by a conserved binding motif in the disordered p53 transactivation domain …

Using evolutionary constraint to define novel candidate driver genes in medulloblastoma Open

Ananya Roy, Sharadha Sakthikumar, Sergey V. Kozyrev, Jessika Nordin, Raphaela Pensch , et al. · 2023

Current knowledge of cancer genomics remains biased against noncoding mutations. To systematically search for regulatory noncoding mutations, we assessed mutations in conserved positions in the genome under the assumption that these are mo…

The genomic basis and environmental correlates of local adaptation in the Atlantic horse mackerel ( Trachurus trachurus ) Open

Angela P. Fuentes‐Pardo, Edward D. Farrell, Mats E. Pettersson, C. Grace Sprehn, Leif Andersson · 2023

Understanding how populations adapt to their environment is increasingly important to prevent biodiversity loss due to overexploitation and climate change. Here we studied the population structure and genetic basis of local adaptation of A…

A Long-Standing Hybrid Population Between Pacific and Atlantic Herring in a Subarctic Fjord of Norway Open

Mats E. Pettersson, Angela P. Fuentes‐Pardo, Christina M. Rochus, Erik D. Enbody, Huijuan Bi , et al. · 2023

Atlantic herring (Clupea harengus) and Pacific herring (C. pallasii) are sister species that split from a common ancestor about 2 million years ago. Balsfjord, a subarctic fjord in Northern Norway, harbors an outpost population of Pacific …

Supplementary Table 5 from SETD2 Is Recurrently Mutated in Whole-Exome Sequenced Canine Osteosarcoma Open

Sharadha Sakthikumar, Ingegerd Elvers, Jaegil Kim, Maja L. Arendt, Rachael Thomas , et al. · 2023

File contains genes that have focal somatic copy number deletions.

Supplementary Table 14 from SETD2 Is Recurrently Mutated in Whole-Exome Sequenced Canine Osteosarcoma Open

Sharadha Sakthikumar, Ingegerd Elvers, Jaegil Kim, Maja L. Arendt, Rachael Thomas , et al. · 2023

File contains list of GISTIC Defined Recurrent SCNA genes that overlap between Humans and Dogs.

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