Publications

2025

  1. Molinet J, R Stelkens, The evolution of thermal performance curves in response to rising temperature across the model genus yeast, PNAS, 2025, https://doi.org/10.1073/pnas.2423262122
  2. Rêgo A, J Baur, C Girard-Tercieux, M de la Paz Celorio Mancera, R Stelkens, D Berger, Repeatability of evolution and genomic predictions of temperature adaptation in seed beetles. Nature Ecology & Evolution, 2025, https://doi.org/10.1038/s41559-025-02716-5
  3. Pinto J, R Stelkens, The long-term evolutionary potential of four yeast species and their hybrids in extreme temperature conditions, Evolution, 2025, https://doi.org/10.1093/evolut/qpaf244
  4. Bendixsen D, C Gilchrist, C Haberkorn, K Persson, J Warringer, C Geijer, R Stelkens, Reproductive isolation due to divergent ecological selection is accompanied by vast genomic instability in experimentally evolved yeast populations, Molecular Ecology, 2025, https://doi.org/10.1111/mec.70110
  5. Pinto J*, C Haberkorn*, M Franzén, AJM Tack, R Stelkens, Fermentative yeast diversity at the northern range limit of their oak tree hosts, Environmental Microbiology Reports, 2025, doi.org/10.1111/1758-2229.70110 *authors contributed equally
  6. Ament-Velásquez L, B Furneaux, S Dheur, A Granger-Farbos, R Stelkens, H Johanneson, S Saupe, Reconstructing NOD-like receptor alleles with high internal conservation in Podospora anserina using long-read sequencing. Microbial Genomics, 2025, https://doi.org/10.1099/mgen.0.001442

2024

  1. Bautista C, I Gagnon-Arsenault, M Utrobina, A Fijarczyk, DP Bendixsen, R Stelkens, C Landry, Hybrid adaptation is hampered by Haldane’s sieve, Nature Communications, 2024, https://www.nature.com/articles/s41467-024-54105-4
  2. Stelkens R, A microbial perspective on speciation. Evolutionary Journal of the Linnean Society, 2024, https://doi.org/10.1093/evolinnean/kzae023
  3. Molinet J, JP Navarrete, CA Villarroel, P Villarreal, FI Sandoval, RF Nespolo, R Stelkens, FA Cubillos, Wild Patagonian yeast improve the evolutionary potential of novel interspecific hybrid strains for Lager brewing. PLOS Genetics, 2024, e1011154, https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pgen.1011154
  4. Rêgo A, D Stajic, C Bautista, S Rouot, M de la Paz Celorio-Mancera, R Stelkens, Adaptation to complex environments reveals pervasive trade-offs and genomic targets with large pleiotropic effects, bioRxiv, 2024: p. 2024.01.24.577006.
  5. Pinto, J, N Tavakolian, CB Li, R Stelkens, The relationship between cell density and cell count differs among Saccharomyces yeast species. microPublication Biology, 2024. 10.17912/micropub.biology.001215

2023

  1. Thompson KA, Y Brandvain, JM Coughlan, KE Delmore, H Justen, C Linnen, D Ortiz-Barrientos, CA Rushworth, H Schneemann, M Schumer, R Stelkens, The Ecology of Hybrid Incompatibilities, Cold Spring Harbour Perspectives in Biology, 2023, a041438
  2. Delmore K, H Justen, KM Kay, J Kitano, LC Moyle, R Stelkens, MA Streisfeld, YY Yamasaki, J Ross, Genomic approaches are improving taxonomic representation in genetic studies of speciation, Cold Spring Harbour Perspectives in Biology, 2023, doi:10.1101/cshperspect.a041438

2022

  1. Ament-Velásquez* L, C Gilchrist*, A Rêgo, DP Bendixsen, C Brice, J Grosse-Sommer, N Rafati, R Stelkens. The dynamics of adaptation to stress from standing genetic variation and de novo mutations. Molecular Biology and Evolution, 2022, https://doi.org/10.1093/molbev/msac242, *authors contributed equally
  2. Stelkens R, DP Bendixsen: The evolutionary and ecological potential of yeast hybrids. Current Opinion in Genetics & Development 2022, 76:101958 https://doi.org/10.1016/j.gde.2022.101958
  3. Tavakolian N, JG Frazão, DP Bendixsen, R Stelkens, CB Li : Shepherd: accurate clustering for correcting DNA barcode errors. Bioinformatics 2022, 38:3710-3716 https://doi.org/10.1093/bioinformatics/btac395
  4. Gettle N, B Gallone, K Verstrepen, R Stelkens. 2022. Harnessing the power of technical and natural variation in 116 yeast datasets to benchmark long read assembly pipelines. bioRxiv, 2022, https://doi.org/10.1101/2022.03.17.484703
  5. Boynton PJ, KR Patil, I Stefanini, R Stelkens, FA Cubillos, Yeast ecology and communities. Yeast, 2022, 39(1-2):3. DOI: 10.1002/yea.3691

2021

  1. Bendixsen DP, JG Frazão, R Stelkens, Saccharomyces yeast hybrids on the rise, Yeast, 2021, https://doi.org/10.1002/yea.3684
  2. Bendixsen DP, D Peris, R Stelkens. Patterns of genomic instability in interspecific yeast hybrids with diverse ancestries, Frontiers in Fungal Biology, 2021, https://www.frontiersin.org/articles/10.3389/ffunb.2021.742894/abstract
  3. Brice C, Z Zhang, D Bendixsen, RB Stelkens, Hybridization outcomes have strong genomic and environmental contingencies, The American Naturalist, 2021, https://www.journals.uchicago.edu/doi/10.1086/715356
  4. Bendixsen* DP, N Gettle*, C Gilchrist, Z Zhang, R Stelkens, Genomic evidence of an ancient East Asian divergence event in wild Saccharomyces cerevisiae. Genome Biology and Evolution, 2021, evab001, *authors contributed equally https://doi.org/10.1093/gbe/evab001

2019

  1. Meier JI, RB Stelkens, DA Joyce, S Mwaiko, N Phiri, UK Schliewen, OM Selz, CE Wagner, C Katongo, O Seehausen, The coincidence of ecological opportunity with hybridization explains rapid adaptive radiation in Lake Mweru cichlid fishes, Nature Communications 10:5391, 2019 https://www.nature.com/articles/s41467-019-13278-z
  2. Zhang* Z, DP Bendixsen*, T Janzen, A Nolte, D Greig, R Stelkens, Recombining your way out of trouble: The genetic architecture of hybrid fitness under environmental stress, *authors contributed equally, Molecular Biology and Evolution 2019, doi.org/10.1093/molbev/msz211
  3. Gilchrist C, RB Stelkens, Aneuploidy in Yeast: Segregation Error or Adaptation Mechanism? Yeast 2019, doi:10.1002/yea.3427

2017

  1. Bernardes J, RB Stelkens, D Greig, Heterosis in hybrids within and between yeast species, Journal of Evolutionary Biology 2017, 30 (3): 538–548 doi: 10.1111/jeb.13023

2016

  1. Stelkens RB, D Greig, Fungal evolution: On the origin of yeast species, Nature Microbiology 2016 1 (1): 15017, doi: 10.1038/nmicrobiol2015.17
  2. Boynton P, RB Stelkens, V Kowallik, D Greig, Measuring microbial fitness in a field reciprocal transplant experiment, Molecular Ecology Resources 2016, doi: 10.1111/1755-0998.12562
  3. Stelkens RB, EL Miller, D Greig, Asynchronous spore germination in isogenic, natural isolates of Saccharomyces paradoxus, FEMS Yeast Research 2016, 16 (3) doi: 10.1093/femsyr/fow012

2015

  1. Stelkens* RB, K King*, J Webster, D Smith, M Brockhurst, Hybridization in parasites: Consequences for adaptive evolution, pathogenesis, and public health in a changing world, *authors contributed equally, PLOS Pathogens 2015, 11(9): e1005098
  2. Stelkens RB, C. Schmid, O Seehausen, Hybrid breakdown in cichlid fish, PLOS ONE 2015, 10(5): e0127207

2014

  1. Stelkens RB, M Brockhurst, G Hurst, E Miller, D Greig, The effect of hybrid transgression on environmental tolerance in experimental yeast crosses. Journal of Evolutionary Biology 2014, 27(11): 2507-2519
  2. Stelkens RB, M Brockhurst, G Hurst, D Greig, Hybridization facilitates evolutionary rescue, Evolutionary Applications 2014, 7(10): 1209-1217
  3. Stelkens RB, M Pompini, C Wedekind, Testing the effects of genetic crossing distance on embryo survival within a metapopulation of brown trout (Salmo trutta). Conservation Genetics 2014, 15: 375-386

2013

  1. Stelkens RB, ES Clark, C Wedekind, Parental influences on pathogen resistance in brown trout embryos and effects of outcrossing within a river network, PLOS ONE 2013, 8: e57832

2012

  1. Stelkens RB, M Pompini, C Wedekind, Testing for local adaptation in brown trout using reciprocal transplants. BMC Evolutionary Biology 2012, 12: 247
  2. Abbott R, D Albach, S Ansell, JW Arntzen, SJE Baird, N Bierne et al. (incl. RB Stelkens), Hybridization and speciation. Journal of Evolutionary Biology 2012, 26: 229-246
  3. Stelkens RB, G Jaffuel, M Escher, C Wedekind, Genetic and phenotypic population divergence on a microgeographic scale in brown trout. Molecular Ecology 2012, 21:2896-2915

2010

  1. Stelkens RB, C Wedekind, Environmental sex reversal, Trojan sex genes, and sex ratio adjustment: conditions and population consequences. Molecular Ecology 2010, 19: 627–646
  2. Wedekind C, RB Stelkens, Tackling the diversity of sex determination. Biology Letters 2010, 6: 7-9
  3.  RB, KA Young, O Seehausen, The accumulation of reproductive incompatibilities in African cichlid fish. Evolution 2010, 64:617-633

2009

  1. Stelkens RB, C Schmid, O Selz, O Seehausen, Phenotypic novelty in experimental hybrids is predicted by the genetic distance between species of cichlid fish. BMC Evolutionary Biology 2009, 9:283, doi: 10.1186/1471-2148-9-283
  2. Stelkens RB, O Seehausen, Genetic distance between species predicts novel trait expression in their hybrids. Evolution 2009, 63:884-897
  3. Stelkens RB, O Seehausen, Phenotypic divergence but not genetic distance predicts assortative mating among species of a new cichlid fish radiation. Journal of Evolutionary Biology 2009, 22:1679-1694

2008

  1. Stelkens RB, MER Pierotti, DA Joyce, AM Smith, I van der Sluijs, O Seehausen, Disruptive sexual selection on male nuptial coloration in an experimental hybrid population of cichlid fish. Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society B-Biological Sciences 2008, 363:2861-2870
  2. van der Sluijs I, TJM Van Dooren, KD Hofker, JJM van Alphen, RB Stelkens, O Seehausen, Female mating preference functions predict sexual selection against hybrids between sibling species of cichlid fish. Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society B-Biological Sciences 2008, 363:2871-2877