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Preprints (not yet peer-reviewed)

Stervander M, Melo M, Jones P & Hansson B. 2022. Genomic signatures of isolation, hybridization, and selection during speciation of island finches. bioRxiv 2022.01.05.474904. DOI: 10.1101/2022.01.05.474904.

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In press

Illera JC✉, Rando JC, Melo M, Valente LL & Stervander M✉. 2024. Avian island radiations shed light on the dynamics of adaptive and non-adaptive radiation. Cold Spring Harbor Perspectives in Biology, in press. DOI: 10.1101/cshperspect.a041451.

 

Published

Stiller J, Feng S, Chowdhury A-A, Rivas-González I, Duchene D, Fang Q, Deng Y, Kozlov A, Stamatakis A, Claramunt S, Nguyen JMT, Ho SYW, Faircloth BC, Haag J, Houde P, Cracraft J, Balaban M, Mai U, Chen G, Gao R, Zhou C, Xie Y, Huang Z, Cao Z, Yan Z, Ogilvie HA, Nakhleh L, Lindow B, Morel B, Fjeldså J, Hosner P, Fonseca R, Petersen R, Tobias JA, Székely T, Kennedy JD, Reeve AH, Liker A, Stervander M, Antunes A, Tietze DT, Bertelsen M, Lei F, Rahbek C, Graves G, Schierup M, Warnow T, Braun EL, Gilbert MTP, Jarvis ED, Mirarab S & Zhang G. 2024. Complexity of avian evolution revealed by family-level genomes. Nature 629: 851–860. DOI: 10.1038/s41586-024-07323-1.

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Alström P✉, Mohammadi Z, Donald PF, Nymark M, Enbody ED, Irestedt M, Elisha EB, Ndithia HK, Tieleman BI, Engelbrecht D, Olsson U, Rancilhac L & Stervander M✉. 2024. Integrative taxonomy reveals unrecognised species diversity in African Corypha larks (Aves: Alaudidae). Zoological Journal of the Linnean Society 200: 1080–1108. DOI: 10.1093/zoolinnean/zlad107.

 

García-Navas V, Stervander M & Alström P. 2024. Diversification history and morphological evolution of larks. Evolutionary Journal of the Linnean Society 3: kzae002. DOI: 10.1093/evolinnean/kzae002.

 

Norris K, Bond AL, Cooper JH, Adams MP, van Grouw H, White J, Stervander M, Russell DGD & Loader SP. 2024. Unlocking avian museum collections to enable and advance environmental change research. Ibis 166: 315–322. DOI: 10.1111/ibi.13271.

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Mellinger S, Stervander M, Lundberg M, Drews A & Westerdahl H. 2023. Improved haplotype resolution of highly duplicated MHC genes in a long-read genome assembly using MiSeq amplicons. PeerJ 11:e15480 DOI: 10.7717/peerj.15480.

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Alström P✉, Mohammadi Z, Enbody ED, Irestedt M, Engelbrecht D, Crochet P-A, Guillaumet A, Rancilhac L, Tieleman BI, Olsson U, Donald PF & Stervander M✉. 2023. Systematics of the avian family Alaudidae using multilocus and genomic data. Avian Research 14: 100095. DOI: 10.1016/j.avrs.2023.100095.

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Cerca J, Cotoras DD, Bieker VC, De-Kayne R, Vargas P, Fernández-Mazuecos M, López-Delgado J, White O, Stervander M, Geneva AJ, Guevara Andino JE, Meier JI, Roeble L, Brée B, Patiño J, Guayasamin JM, de Lourdes Torres M, Valdebenito Milling H, del Rosario Castañeda M, Chaves JA, Jaramillo Díaz P, Valente L, Knope ML, Price JP, Rieseberg LH, Baldwin BG, Emerson B, Rivas-Torres G, Gillespie R & Martin MD. 2023. Evolutionary genomics of oceanic island radiations. Trends in Ecology and Evolution 38: 631–642. DOI: 10.1016/j.tree.2023.02.003.

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Brown AF, Lawrie Y, Shannon TJ, Collinson JM, Kirwan GM✉, Kirkconnell A & Stervander M✉. 2022. First genetic data for the Critically Endangered Cuban endemic Zapata Rail Cyanolimnas cerverai, and the taxonomic implications. Journal of Ornithology 163: 945–962. DOI: 10.1007/s10336-022-02004-0.

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Roved J, Hansson B, Stervander M, Hasselquist D* & Westerdahl H*. 2022. MHCtools – an R package for MHC high-throughput sequencing data: genotyping, haplotype and supertype inference, and downstream genetic analyses in non-model organisms. Molecular Ecology Resources 22: 2775–2792. DOI: 10.1111/1755-0998.13645. *Shared last authorship.

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Stervander M & Cresko WA. 2021. A highly contiguous nuclear genome assembly of the mandarinfish Synchiropus splendidus (Syngnathifromes: Callionymidae). G3: Genes | Genomes | Genetics 11: jkab306. DOI: 10.1093/g3journal/jkab306.

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Stervander M & Haelewaters D. 2020. Fishiness of piscine birds linked to absence of poisonous fungi but not pizza. Oceanography & Fisheries Open Access Journal 12(5): 555850. DOI: 10.19080/OFOAJ.2020.12.555850.

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Stervander M✉, Hansson B, Olsson U, Hulme MF, Ottosson U & Alström P✉. 2020. Molecular species delimitation of larks (Aves: Alaudidae), and integrative taxonomy of the genus Calandrella, with the description of a range-restricted African relic taxon. Diversity 12: 428. DOI: 10.3390/d12110428.

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Chaves JA✉, Martinez-Torres PJ, Depino EA, Espinoza-Ulloa S, García-Loor J, Beichman A & Stervander M✉. 2020. Evolutionary history of the Galápagos Rail revealed by ancient mitogenomes and modern samples. Diversity 12: 425. DOI: 10.3390/d12110425.

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The cover of Diversity volume 12 issue 11, featuring Chaves et al. (2020)

Feng S*, Stiller J*, Deng Y*, Armstrong J*, Fang Q, Reeve AH, Xie D, Chen G, Guo C, Faircloth BC, Petersen B, Wang Z, Zhou Q, Diekhans M, Chen W, Andreu-Sánchez S, Margaryan A, Howard JT, Parent C, Pacheco G, Sinding MHS, Puetz L, Cavill E, Ribeiro ÂM, Eckhart L, Fjeldså J, Hosner P, Brumfield RT, Christidis L, Bertelsen MF, Sicheritz-Ponten T, Tietze DT, Robertson BC, Song G, Borgia G, Claramunt S, Lovette IJ, Cowen SJ, Njoroge P, Dumbacher JP, Ryder OA, Fuchs J, Bunce M, Burt DW, Cracraft J, Meng G, Hackett SJ, Ryan PG, Jønsson KA, Jamieson IG, da Fonseca RR, Braun EL, Houde P, Mirarab S, Suh S, Hansson B, Ponnikas S, Sigeman S, Stervander M, Frandsen PB, van der Zwan H, van der Sluis R, Visser C, Balakrishnan CN, Clark AG, Fitzpatrick JW, Bowman R, Chen N, Cloutier A, Sackton TB, Edwards S, Foote DJ, Shakya SB, Sheldon SH, Vignal A, Soares AER, Shapiro B, González-Solís J, Ferrer-Obiol J, Rozas J, Riutort R, Tigano A, Friesen V, Dalén L, Urrutia AO, Székely T, Liu Y, Campana MG, Corvelo A, Fleischer RC, Rutherford KM, Gemmell NJ, Dussex N, Mouritsen H, Thiele N, Delmore K, Liedvogel M, Franke A, Hoeppner MP, Krone O, Fudickar AM, Milá B, Ketterson ED, Fidler AE, Friis G, Parody-Merino ÁM, Battley PF, Cox MP, Lima NCB, Prosdocimi F, Parchman TL, Schlinger BA, Loiselle BA, Blake JG, Lim HC, Day LB, Fuxjager MJ, Baldwin MW, Braun MJ, Wirthlin M, Dikow RB, Ryder TB, Camenisch G, Keller LF, DaCosta JM, Hauber ME, Louder MIM, Witt CC, McGuire JA, Mudge J, Megna LC, Carling MD, Wang B, Taylor SA, Del-Rio G, Aleixo A, Vasconcelos ATR, Mello CV, Weir JT, Haussler D, Li Q, Yang H, Wang J, Lei F, Rahbek C, Gilbert MTP, Graves GR, Jarvis ED, Paten B & Zhang G. 2020. Dense sampling of bird diversity increases power of comparative genomics. Nature 587: 252–257. DOI: 10.1038/s41586-020-2873-9. *Shared first authorship.

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Stervander M*✉, Dierickx EG*, Thorley J*, Brooke M de L & Westerdahl H✉. 2020. High MHC gene copy number maintains diversity despite homozygosity in a Critically Endangered single-island endemic bird, but no evidence of MHC-based mate choice. Molecular Ecology 29: 3578–3592. DOI: 10.1111/mec.15471. *Shared first authorship.

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The cover of Molecular Ecology volume 29, issue 19, featuring Stervander et al. (2020)

Gillespie RG, Bennett GM, De Meester L, Feder JL, Fleischer RC, Harmon LJ, Hendry AP, Knope M, Mallet J, Martin C, Parent CE, Patton AH, Pfennig KS, Rubinoff D, Schluter D, Seehausen O, Shaw KL, Stacy E, Stervander M, Stroud JT, Wagner C & Wogan GOU. 2020. Comparing adaptive radiations across space, time, and taxa. Journal of Heredity 111: 1–20. DOI: 10.1093/jhered/esz064.

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Lehikoinen A, Lindén A, Karlsson M, Andersson A, Crewe TL, Dunn EH, Gregory G, Karlsson L, Kristiansen V, Mackenzie S, Newman S, Røer JE, Sharpe C, Sokolov LV, Steinholtz Å, Stervander M, Takats Priestley L, Tirri I-S & Skjold Tjørnløv R. 2019. Phenology of the avian spring migratory passage in Europe and North America: asymmetric advancement in time and increase in duration. Ecological Indicators 101: 985–991. DOI: 10.1016/j.ecolind.2019.01.083.

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Inaccessible Rail (photo: Peter G. Ryan) Stervander M✉, Ryan PG, Melo M & Hansson B. 2019. The origin of the world’s smallest flightless bird, the Inaccessible Island Rail Atlantisia rogersi (Aves: Rallidae). Molecular Phylogenetics and Evolution 130: 92–98. DOI: 10.1016/j.ympev.2018.10.007.

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Hansson2018MER Hansson B, Sigeman H*, Stervander M*, Tarka M, Ponnikas S, Strandh M, Westerdahl H & Hasselquist D. 2018. Contrasting results from GWAS and QTL mapping on wing length in great reed warblers. Molecular Ecology Resources 18: 867–876. DOI: 10.1111/1755-0998.12785. *Equal contribution.
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Stervander2017OS_nitidusStervander M✉, Knudsen H & Bruun Kristensen A. 2017. Green Warbler Phylloscopus nitidus ringed at Blåvand: molecular confirmation of a Danish first and European eighth vagrant record. Ornis Svecica 27: 121–131. DOI: 10.34080/os.v27.19565.

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Melo2017Ibis_bMelo M*, Stervander M*, Hansson B & Jones P. 2017. The endangered São Tomé Grosbeak Neospiza concolor is the world’s largest canary. Ibis 159: 673–679. DOI: 10.1111/ibi.12466. *Shared first authorship.

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Stervander2016MPEStervander M✉, Alström P✉, Olsson U, Ottosson U, Hansson B & Bensch S. 2016. Multiple instances of paraphyletic species and cryptic taxa revealed by mitochondrial and nuclear RAD data for Calandrella larks (Aves: Alaudidae). Molecular Phylogenetics and Evolution 102: 233–245. DOI: 10.1016/j.ympev.2016.05.032.

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Stervander2015MolEcol_CterStervander M✉, Illera JC, Kvist L, Barbosa P°, Keehnen NP°, Pruisscher P°, Bensch S & Hansson B. 2015. Disentangling the complex evolutionary history of the Western Palearctic blue tits (Cyanistes spp.) – phylogenomic analyses suggest radiation by multiple colonization events and subsequent isolation. Molecular Ecology 24(10): 2477–2494. DOI: 10.1111/mec.13145. °Mentored undergraduate student.

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Sjögren2013Sjögren J, Struwe W, Cosgrave E, Rudd P, Stervander M, Allhorn M, Hollands A, Nizet V & Collin M. 2013. EndoS2 is a unique and conserved enzyme of serotype M49 group A Streptococcus that hydrolyses N-linked glycans on IgG and α1-acid glycoprotein. Biochemical Journal 455: 107–118. DOI: 10.1042/BJ20130126.

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Iwajomo2013Iwajomo SB, Stervander M, Helseth A & Ottosson U. 2013. Population trends and migration strategy of the Wood Sandpiper Tringa glareola at Ottenby, SE Sweden. Ringing & Migration 28(1): 6–15. DOI: 10.1080/03078698.2013.811157.

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Hellgren2013_aHellgren O, Wood MJ, Waldenström J, Hasselquist D, Ottosson U, Stervander M & Bensch S. 2013. Circannual variation in blood parasitism in a sub-Saharan migrant, the garden warbler. Journal of Evolutionary Biology 26(5): 1047–1059. DOI: 10.1111/jeb.12129.

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Pala2011Pala I, Naurin S, Stervander M, Hasselquist D, Bensch S & Hansson B. 2011. Evidence of a neo-sex chromosome in birds. Heredity 108(3): 264–272. DOI: 10.1038/hdy.2011.70.

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Jonzén N, Lindén A, Ergon T, Knudsen E, Vik JO, Rubolini D, Piacentini D, Brinch C, Spina F, Karlsson L, Stervander M†, Andersson A, Waldenström J, Lehikoinen A, Edvardsen E, Solvang R & Stenseth NC. 2007. Response to comment on “Rapid advance of spring arrival dates in long-distance migratory birds”. Science 315: 598c. DOI: 10.1126/science.1136920. †Undergraduate author.

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Wallensten2011EIDWallensten A, Munster VJ, La Torre-Magalef N, Brytting M, Elmberg J, Fouchier RAM, Fransson T, Haemig PD, Karlsson M, Lundkvist Å, Osterhaus ADME, Stervander M†, Waldenström J, & Olsen B. 2007. Surveillance of Influenza A Virus in migratory waterfowl in northern Europe. Emerging Infectious Diseases 13(3): 404–411. DOI: 10.3201/eid1303.061130. †Undergraduate author.

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Mallards in Castle Park, by postman.peter (CC BY 2.0). Click image for details.Wallensten A, Munster VJ, Karlsson M, Lundkvist Å, Brytting M, Stervander M†, Osterhaus ADME, Fouchier RAM & Olsen B. 2006. High prevalence of influenza A virus in ducks caught during spring migration through Sweden. Vaccine 24: 6734–6735. DOI: 10.1016/j.vaccine.2006.05.057. †Undergraduate author.

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Jonzen2006ScienceJonzén N, Lindén A, Ergon T, Knudsen E, Vik JO, Rubolini D, Piacentini D, Brinch C, Spina F, Karlsson L, Stervander M†, Andersson, A, Waldenström J, Lehikoinen A, Edvardsen E, Solvang R & Stenseth NC. 2006. Rapid advance of spring arrival dates in long-distance migratory birds. Science 312: 1959–1961. DOI: 10.1126/science.1126119. †Undergraduate author.

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Jonzen2006OSJonzén N, Piacentini D, Andersson A, Montemaggiori A, Stervander M†, Rubolini D, Waldenström J & Spina F. 2006. The timing of spring migration in trans-Saharan migrants: a comparison between Ottenby, Sweden, and the island of Capri, Italy. Ornis Svecica 16: 27–33. DOI: 10.34080/os.v16.22412. †Undergraduate author.

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Helseth2005Ardea_b_knotHelseth A, Lindström Å & Stervander M†. 2005. Southward migration and fuel deposition of Red Knots Calidris canutus. Ardea 93(2): 213–224. †Authored before entering university.

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Little rush warbler by Alan Manson (CC BY-SA 2.0). Click image for details.Stervander M†✉, Ottosson U, Hulme M & Molokwu MN. 2005. Little Rush Warbler Bradypterus baboecala new to Plateau state, Nigeria. Malimbus 27: 46–47. †Authored before entering university.

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Helseth2005OS_aHelseth A, Stervander M† & Waldenström J. 2005. Migration patterns, population trends and morphometrics of the Ruddy Turnstone Arenaria interpres passing Ottenby in south-eastern Sweden. Ornis Svecica 15: 63–72. DOI: 10.34080/os.v15.22411. †Authored before entering university.

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Stervander2005JABStervander M†✉, Lindström Å, Jonzén N & Andersson A. 2005. Timing of spring migration in birds: long-term trends, North Atlantic Oscillation and the significance of different migration routes. Journal of Avian Biology 36: 210–221. DOI: 10.1111/j.0908-8857.2005.03360.x. †Authored before entering university.

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