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Laurent Excoffier

Researcher at University of Bern

Publications -  243
Citations -  90328

Laurent Excoffier is an academic researcher from University of Bern. The author has contributed to research in topics: Population & Coalescent theory. The author has an hindex of 94, co-authored 240 publications receiving 84545 citations. Previous affiliations of Laurent Excoffier include University of Basel & Université de Montréal.

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Runs of homozygosity in killer whale genomes provide a global record of demographic histories.

TL;DR: The authors investigated whether variation in killer whale (Orcinus orca) demographic history is reflected in genomewide heterozygosity and run-of-homozygosity (ROH) length distributions, using a global data set of 26-genomes representative of geographic and ecotypic variation in this species, and two F1 admixed individuals with Pacific-Atlantic parentage.
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Genetic studies of relationship between Mediterranean and Atlantic populations of loggerhead turtle Caretta caretta with mitochondrial marker

TL;DR: Results indicate that the Mediterranean nesting female population is genetically isolated from the Atlantic nestingFemale population, but loggerhead turtles of Atlantic origin were found in the West Mediterranean basin.
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Inferring the impact of linguistic boundaries on population differentiation: application to the Afro-Asiatic–Indo-European case

TL;DR: A quantitative way to assess the impact of language-family boundaries on population differentiation and to evaluate the homogeneity of the genetic processes along these boundaries is presented.
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Parsimony-based pedigree analysis and individual-based landscape genetics suggest topography to restrict dispersal and connectivity in the endangered capercaillie

TL;DR: This study estimated current dispersal patterns in a regional population of the endangered capercaillie using a novel, parsimony-based application of pedigree analysis, and investigated the relative impact of topography and land use on functional population connectivity.