Professor Stuart Piertney
Chair in Molecular Ecology and Evolution, Dean for Postgraduate Research
- About
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- Email Address
- s.piertney@abdn.ac.uk
- Telephone Number
- +44 (0)1224 272864
- Office Address
Rooms 410 (Office) and 222 (Lab) Zoology Building
- School/Department
- School of Biological Sciences
- School/Department
- Senior Vice Principals
- Research
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Research Overview
Research within the Piertney-Lab focuses on the interplay between evolutionary and ecological dynamics in natural populations. From an eco-to-evo perspective, I examine how different ecological, environmental and behavioural processes drive microevolution, adaptation and speciation. Then from an evo-to-eco perspective, I link how genetic diversity affects individual fitness, population dynamics, ecosystem function and population persistence.
Studies have either a gene-centric focus, examining candidate genes of known ecological importance and adaptive significance (e.g. MHC, MC1R, IFN), or exploit next-generation 'omics technologies to gain a more holistic understanding of adaptation and genome-wide responses to environmental and ecological change.
Current Research
- Piezophilic adaptation in deep-ocean amphipods (NERC).
- The genomic landscape of speciation and adaptive variation in the intertidal isopod Jaera albifrons (NERC).
- Emergence, spread and persistence of maine invasive non-native species (with Marine Scotland Science, and South Atlantic Environment Research Institute).
- Genome-wide responses to demographic perturbation in insular populations of water voles (BBSRC)
- PolyExESS - Extreme environment simulation system for experimental evolution (NERC).
- The ecology, evolution and epidemiology of zoonotic pathogens in fragmented multi-host populations (BBSRC).
- The epigenomic landscape of maternal effects in the soil mite Sancassania berlesei (NERC).
- Teaching
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- Publications
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Microsatellite markers for the fossa (Cryptoprocta ferox)
Molecular Ecology, vol. 9, pp. 489-490Contributions to Journals: ArticlesSpatial arrangement of kin affects recruitment success in young male red grouse
Oikos, vol. 90, pp. 261-270Contributions to Journals: ArticlesGenetic diversity in the Eurasian otter, Lutra lutra, in Scotland. Evidence from microsatellite polymorphism
Biological Journal of the Linnean Society, vol. 68, pp. 73-86Contributions to Journals: ArticlesIsolation and characterization of microsatellite loci in the freshwater gastropod, Biomphalaria glabrata, an intermediate host for Schistosoma mansoni
Molecular Ecology, vol. 8, pp. 2149-2151Contributions to Journals: ArticlesMetapopulation genetic structure in the water vole, Arvicola terrestris, in NE Scotland
Biological Journal of the Linnean Society, vol. 68, pp. 159-171Contributions to Journals: ArticlesSpatial distribution of genetic relatedness in a moorland population of red grouse (Lagopus lagopus scoticus)
Biological Journal of the Linnean Society, vol. 68, pp. 317-331Contributions to Journals: ArticlesThe Natural Environment Research Council-Royal Society of Edinburgh Symposium on Molecular Genetics in Animal Ecology, September 1998 - Foreword
Biological Journal of the Linnean Society, vol. 68, no. 1-2, pp. 1-1Contributions to Journals: EditorialsLocal genetic structure in red grouse (Lagopus lagopus scoticus): evidence from microsatellite DNA markers
Molecular Ecology, vol. 7, no. 12, pp. 1645-1654Contributions to Journals: ArticlesCharacterization of tetranucleotide microsatellite markers in the Scottish crossbill (Loxia scotica)
Molecular Ecology, vol. 7, no. 9, pp. 1261-1263Contributions to Journals: ArticlesIsolation and characterization of highly polymorphic microsatellites in the water vole, Arvicola terrestris
Molecular Ecology, vol. 7, no. 9, pp. 1258-1259Contributions to Journals: ArticlesMicrosatellite primers for the Eurasian otter
Molecular Ecology, vol. 7, no. 9, pp. 1248-1251Contributions to Journals: ArticlesPopulation introgression and differentiation in the great cormorant Phalacrocorax carbo in Europe
Molecular Ecology, vol. 7, no. 3, pp. 329-338Contributions to Journals: ArticlesHighly polymorphic microsatellite markers in the great cormorant Phalacrocorax carbo
Molecular Ecology, vol. 7, no. 1, pp. 138-140Contributions to Journals: ArticlesInterspecific comparisons of genetic population structure in members of the Jaera albifrons species complex
Journal of the Marine Biological Association of the United Kingdom, vol. 77, no. 1, pp. 77-93Contributions to Journals: ArticlesIsolation and characterization of hypervariable microsatellites in the red grouse Lagopus lagopus scoticus
Molecular Ecology, vol. 6, no. 1, pp. 93-95Contributions to Journals: Articles- [ONLINE] DOI: https://doi.org/10.1046/j.1365-294X.1997.00154.x
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Sex ratio variation in the intertidal isopod, Jaera albifrons
Journal of the Marine Biological Association of the United Kingdom, vol. 76, no. 3, pp. 825-828Contributions to Journals: ArticlesDETECTION OF HIGH-LEVELS OF GENETIC RELATEDNESS IN ROCK-POPULATIONS OF AN INTERTIDAL ISOPOD USING DNA-FINGERPRINTING
Journal of the Marine Biological Association of the United Kingdom, vol. 75, no. 4, pp. 967-976Contributions to Journals: ArticlesMICROGEOGRAPHIC GENETIC DIFFERENTIATION IN THE INTERTIDAL ISOPOD JAERA ALBIFRONS LEACH .2. TEMPORAL VARIATION IN ALLELE FREQUENCIES
Journal of Experimental Marine Biology and Ecology, vol. 188, no. 2, pp. 277-288Contributions to Journals: Articles
