![Professor Stuart Piertney Professor Stuart Piertney](/img/200x200/staffpages/uploads/nhi570/Stu2.jpg)
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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A transcriptomic investigation of handicap models in sexual selection
Behavioral Ecology and Sociobiology, vol. 67, no. 2, pp. 221-234Contributions to Journals: Articles- [ONLINE] DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/s00265-012-1442-0
- [OPEN ACCESS] http://aura.abdn.ac.uk/bitstream/2164/5773/1/handicaptest_resub.pdf
Tools and approaches for disentangling the effects of parasite-driven processes on host neutral and adaptive genetic diversity
European Society for Evolutionary Biology (ESEB) XIV CongressContributions to Conferences: PostersThe discovery of the egg of jerdon's courser rhinoptilus bitorquatus (Blyth 1848)
Journal of the Bombay Natural History Society, vol. 109, no. 3, pp. 149-152Contributions to Journals: Articles- [ONLINE] View publication in Scopus
Pronounced genetic structure and low genetic diversity in European red-billed chough (Pyrrhocorax pyrrhocorax) populations
Conservation Genetics, vol. 13, no. 5, pp. 1213-1230Contributions to Journals: Articles- [ONLINE] DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/s10592-014-0681-1
- [OPEN ACCESS] http://aura.abdn.ac.uk/bitstream/2164/4681/1/manuscript_proof.pdf
Disease transmission in an extreme environment: nematode parasites infect reindeer during the Arctic winter
International Journal for Parasitology, vol. 42, no. 8, pp. 789-795Contributions to Journals: Articles- [ONLINE] DOI: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ijpara.2012.05.007
Selection maintains MHC diversity through a natural population bottleneck
Molecular Biology and Evolution, vol. 29, no. 7, pp. 1713-1720Contributions to Journals: Articles- [ONLINE] DOI: https://doi.org/10.1093/molbev/mss063
Genetic variation among endangered Irish red grouse (Lagopus lagopus hibernicus) populations: implications for conservation and management
Conservation Genetics, vol. 13, no. 3, pp. 639-647Contributions to Journals: Articles- [ONLINE] DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/s10592-011-0314-x
Impacts of climate, host and landscape factors on Culicoides species in Scotland
Medical and Veterinary Entomology, vol. 26, no. 2, pp. 168-177Contributions to Journals: Articles- [ONLINE] DOI: https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1365-2915.2011.00991.x
Environmental and genetic influences on body mass and resting metabolic rates (RMR) in a natural population of weasel Mustela nivalis
Molecular Ecology, vol. 21, no. 5, pp. 1283-1293Contributions to Journals: Articles- [ONLINE] DOI: https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1365-294X.2011.05436.x
Isolation and characterisation of 17 microsatellite loci for the red-billed chough (Pyrrhocorax pyrrhocorax)
Conservation Genetics Resources, vol. 3, no. 4, pp. 737-740Contributions to Journals: Articles- [ONLINE] DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/s12686-011-9446-z
- [OPEN ACCESS] http://aura.abdn.ac.uk/bitstream/2164/4680/1/manuscript_proof.pdf
Fine-scale genetic structure of bottlenose dolphins, Tursiops truncatus, in Atlantic coastal waters of the Iberian Peninsula
Hydrobiologia, vol. 670, no. 1, pp. 111-125Contributions to Journals: Articles- [ONLINE] DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/s10750-011-0669-5
Survey and management of mussel Mytilus species in Scotland
Hydrobiologia, vol. 670, no. 1, pp. 127-140Contributions to Journals: Articles- [ONLINE] DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/s10750-011-0664-x
Frontiers in host-parasite ecology and evolution
Molecular Ecology, vol. 20, no. 5, pp. 869-871Contributions to Journals: Literature Reviews- [ONLINE] DOI: https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1365-294X.2010.04991.x
Identification of genes responding to nematode infection in red grouse
Molecular Ecology Resources, vol. 11, no. 2, pp. 305-313Contributions to Journals: Articles- [ONLINE] DOI: https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1755-0998.2010.02912.x
Spatial association of nest construction by brown trout Salmo trutta
Journal of Fish Biology, vol. 78, no. 3, pp. 713-725Contributions to Journals: Articles- [ONLINE] DOI: https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1095-8649.2010.02883.x
Transcriptomic response of red grouse to gastro-intestinal nematode parasites and testosterone: implications for population dynamics
Molecular Ecology, vol. 20, no. 5, pp. 920-931Contributions to Journals: Articles- [ONLINE] DOI: https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1365-294X.2010.04906.x
Genetic differentiation among North Atlantic killer whale populations
Molecular Ecology, vol. 20, no. 3, pp. 629-641Contributions to Journals: Articles- [ONLINE] DOI: https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1365-294X.2010.04957.x
Beyond splitting hares and rabbiting on about major histocompatibility complex complexity
Molecular Ecology, vol. 19, no. 19, pp. 4099-4101Contributions to Journals: Articles- [ONLINE] DOI: https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1365-294X.2010.04812.x
Corrigendum: Physiological stress links parasites to carotenoid-based colour signals (vol 23, pg 643, 2010)
Journal of Evolutionary Biology, vol. 23, no. 7, pp. 1579Contributions to Journals: Articles- [ONLINE] DOI: https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1420-9101.2010.02045.x
Testing the interactive effects of testosterone and parasites on carotenoid-based ornamentation in a wild bird
Journal of Evolutionary Biology, vol. 23, no. 5, pp. 902-913Contributions to Journals: Articles- [ONLINE] DOI: https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1420-9101.2010.01956.x
Characterising functionally important and ecologically meaningful genetic diversity using a candidate gene approach
Genetica, vol. 138, no. 4, pp. 419-432Contributions to Journals: Articles- [ONLINE] DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/s10709-008-9322-2
Physiological stress links parasites to carotenoid-based colour signals
Journal of Evolutionary Biology, vol. 23, no. 3, pp. 643-650Contributions to Journals: Articles- [ONLINE] DOI: https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1420-9101.2009.01926.x
Oxidative stress and the effect of parasites on a carotenoid-based ornament
Journal of Experimental Biology, vol. 213, no. 3, pp. 400-407Contributions to Journals: Articles- [ONLINE] DOI: https://doi.org/10.1242/jeb.037101
Ecological, morphological and genetic divergence of sympatric North Atlantic killer whale populations
Molecular Ecology, vol. 18, no. 24, pp. 5207-5217Contributions to Journals: Articles- [ONLINE] DOI: https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1365-294X.2009.04407.x
Mytilus species under rope culture in Scotland: implications for management
Aquaculture International, vol. 17, no. 5, pp. 437-448Contributions to Journals: Articles- [ONLINE] DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/s10499-008-9214-6