POPULATION ECOLOGY & EVOLUTIONARY GENETICS GROUP

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Pre-prints

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• Schmidt C, Hoban S, Leigh DM, Jetz W, Garroway CJ (submitted) Genetic diversity-area relationships are governed by population structure. pre-print

• Rivkin LR, King KCK, Aars J, Laidre KL, Langwieder A, McGeachy D, Newediuk L, Petersen SD, Pilfold N, Wilder AP, York G, Richardson ES, Garroway CJ (submitted) Climate-linked evolution and genetics in a warming Arctic. pre-print

• Rivkin LR, Garroway CJ, Johnson MTJ (submitted) A multi-city examination of neutral and adaptive evolution in the native wildflower Impatiens capensis. pre-print

• Newediuk L, Richardson ES*, Biddlecombe BA, Kassim H, Kathan L, Lunn N, Rivkin LR, Salama OE, Schmidt C, Jones MJ*, Garroway CJ* (submitted) Climate change, age acceleration, and the erosion of fitness in polar bears. *Co-PIs pre-print

• Schmidt C, Mäkinen J, Lessard JP, Garroway CJ (In review) Natural selection is less efficient at species range edges pre-print

• Grayson P, Wright AE, Garroway CJ, Docker MF (pre-printed) SexFindR: A computational workflow to identify young and old sex chromosomes. pre-print

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2025

• de Greef E, Müller C, Snead AA, Rivkin LR, Ferguson SG, Watt CA, Marcoux M, Petersen SD, Garroway CJ (2025) Identifying areas of potential risk based on future genetic adaptability in three Arctic whale species. American Naturalist 

• Newediuk L, Richardson R,  Bohart A, Roberto-Charron A, Garroway CJ*, Jones MJ* (2025)Designing epigenetic clocks for wildlife research. Molecular Ecology Resources OA link *co-PIs

• Carlen EL*, Caizergues AE, Jagiełło Z, Kuzyo H, Munshi-South J, Alberti M, Angeoletto F, Bonilla S, Booth W, Charmantier A, Cocciardi JM, Cook EM, Gotanda KM, Govaert L, Johnson LE, Li D, Malesis AM, Martin E, Marzluff JM, Mazurek M, Miles LS, Phifer-Rixey M, Salazar-Valenzuela D, Savage A, Snyder R, Stadnicki I, Vergeles Y, Verrelli BC, Villar D, Wilhelm-Solomon M, Willmott M, Winchell KM, Yates SS, Zhou Y, Garroway CJ*, Szulkin M* (2025) Legacy effects of religion, politics, and war on urban evolutionary biology. Nature Cities *Co-Leads

• Paz-Vinas I, Vandergast A, Schmidt C, Leigh DM, Blanchet S, Clark RD, Crandall E, De Kort H, Falgout J, Garroway CJ, Karachaliou E, Kershaw F, O’Brien F, Pinsky M, Segelbacher G, HunterM (Accepted) Uneven genetic data limits biodiversity assessments in protected areas globally. Frontiers in Ecology and the Environment pre-print

• Schmidt C, Karachaliou E, Vandergast AJ, Crandall ED, Falgout J, Hunter ME, Kershaw F, Leigh DM, O’Brien D, Paz-Vinas I, Segelbacher G, Garroway CJ (2025) A survey of mammal and fish genetic diversity across the global protected area network. Conservation Letters 18, e13092 OA linkO

• Karachaliou E, Schmidt C, de Greef E, Docker MF, Garroway CJ (2025) Urbanization is associated with reduced genetic diversity in marine fish populations. Molecular Eology 34, e17711 OA link 

 

2024

• de Greef E, Müller C, Thorstensen MJ, Ferguson SH, Watt CA, Marcoux M, Petersen SD, Garroway CJ (2024) Unraveling the Genetic Legacy of Commercial Whaling and Population Dynamics in Arctic Bowhead Whales and Narwhals. Global Change Biology 30, e17528 OA link

• Rivkin LR, Richardson ES, Miller JM, Atwood TC, Baryluk S, Born EW, Davis C, Dyck M, de Greef E, Laidre KL, Lunn NJ, McCarthy S, Obbard ME, Owen MA, Pilfold NW, Roberto-Charron A, Wiig Ø, Wilder AP, Garroway CJ (2024) Assessing the risk of climate maladaptation for Canadian polar bears. Ecology Letters 27, e14486 OA link

• Korpach AM*, de Greef E, Newediuk L, Schmidt C, Garroway CJ, Thorstensen MJ* (2024) Moving to mate? Migration strategy does not predict genetic structure or diversity in bats (Chiroptera). Biological Journal of the Linnean Society, blae068 *contributed equally OA link

• Bridges C, Bani Assadi S, Garroway CJ, Fraser K (2024) Individual timing consistency across long-distance songbird migrations. Ecology and Evolution 14, e11610 OA link

• Garroway CJ*, de Greef E*, Lefort KL, Thorstensen MJ, Foote A, Matthews CJD, Higdon JW, Kucheravy CE, Petersen SD, Rosing-Asvid A, Ugarte F, Dietz R, Ferguson S (2024) Climate change introduces threatened killer whale populations and conservation challenges to the Arctic. Global Change Biology 30, e17352 *contributed equally. OA link

• Leigh D, Vandergast A, Hunter M, Crandall E, Funk WC, Garroway CJ, Hoban S, Oyler-McCance S, Rellstab C, Segelbacher G, Schmidt C, Vázquez-Domínguez E, Paz-Vinas I (2024) Best practices for genetic and genomic data archiving. Nature Ecology and Evolution 8, 1224–1232 Pre-print

• Urban MC, Alberti M, De Meester L, Zhou Y, Verrelli BC, Szulkin M, Schmidt C, Savage AM, Roberts P, Rivkin LR, Palkovacs EP, Munshi-South J, Malesis AN, Harris NC, Gotanda KM, Garroway CJ, Diamond SE, Des Roches S, Charmantier A, Brans KI (2024) Interactions between climate change and urbanization will shape the future of biodiversity. Nature Climate Change 14, 436–447 link

• Kinnunen R, Fraser KC, Schmidt C, Garroway CJ (2024) Structural and socioeconomic features of cities predict migratory bird species richness. Journal of Avian Biology, e03189 OA link

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2023

• Lawrence MJ*, Grayson P*, Jeffrey JD, Docker MF, Garroway CJ, Wilson JM, Manzon RG, Wilkie MP, Jeffries KM (2023) Differences in the transcriptome response in the gills of sea lamprey acutely exposed to 3-trifluoromethyl-4-nitrophenol (TFM), niclosamide or a TFM:niclosamide mixture. Physiology Part D: Genomics and Proteomics 48, 101122 *contributed equally  pre-print

• O’Brien PP, Bowman J, Newar SL, Garroway CJ (Accepted) Microhabitat use of northern and southern flying squirrels in a recent hybrid zone. Canadian Journal of Zoology pre-print

• Lerner D, Usui T, Angert AL, Eckert I, Garroway CJ, Hargreaves A, Lancaster L, Lessard JP, Riva F, Schmidt C, van der Burg K, Marshall K. (2023). A unified synthesis for the evolution of plasticity across species’ ranges. Trends in Ecology and Evolution  39, 831-842 link

• Ouellette R, Garroway CJ, Schulte-Hostedde A (2023) Cortisol is correlated with urbanization but not body condition in eastern chipmunks (Tamias striatus). Urban Ecosystems 26, 1483-1492 link

• Lawrence MJ*, Grayson P*, Jeffrey JD, Docker MF, Garroway CJ, Wilson JM, Manzon RG, Wilkie MP, Jeffries KM (2023) Transcriptomic impacts and potential routes of detoxification in a lampricide-tolerant teleost exposed to TFM and niclosamide.Comparative Biochemistry and Physiology - Part D: Genomics and Proteomics 46, 101074 * contributed equally pre-print

• Schmidt C, Hoban S, Hunter M, Paz-Vinas I, Garroway CJ (2023) Genetic diversity does not predict IUCN Red List status. Conservation Biology 37, e14064 pre-print

• Lawrence MJ, Scheuffele H, Beever SB, Holder PE, Garroway CJ, Cooke SJ, Clark TD (2023) The role of metabolic phenotype in the capacity to balance competing energetic demands. Physiological and Biochemical Zoology 96, 106-118 link

• Halpern BS and 126 co-authors including Garroway CJ and Schmidt C* (2023) Priorities for synthesis research in ecology and environmental science. Ecosphere 14, e4342 link

• Kinnunen RP, Schmidt C, Hernándes-Ortiz A, Rahim MN, Garroway CJ (2023) Survey of Toxoplasma gondii in Urban and Rural Squirrels (Sciuridae) in Manitoba, Canada. Journal of Wildlife Diseases 59, 19-154 pre-print​

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2022

• Schmidt C, Garroway CJ (2022) Systemic racism alters wildlife genetic diversity. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences 119, e2102860119 pre-print

• Lawrence MJ*, Grayson P*,  Jeffrey JD, Docker MF, Garroway CJ, Wilson JM, Manzon RG, Wilkie MP, Jeffries KM (2022) Variation in the transcriptome response and detoxification gene diversity drives pesticide tolerance in fishes. Environmental Science and Technology 56, 12137- 12147 pre-print *contributed equally

• Schmidt C, Munshi-South J, Garroway CJ (2022) Determinants of genetic diversity and species richness of North American amphibians. Journal of Biogeography 49, 2005-2015 pre-print 

• de Greef E, Einfeldt EL, Miller PJO, Ferguson SH, Garroway CJ, Lefort KJ, Paterson IG, Bensen P, Feyrer L (2022)  Genomics reveal population structure, evolutionary history, and signatures of selection in the northern bottlenose whale, Hyperoodon ampullatus. Molecular Ecology 31, 4919-4931 link

• Schmidt C, Muñoz G, Lancaster LT, Lessard JP, Marske KA, Marshall KE, Garroway CJ (2022) Population demography maintains biogeographic boundaries. Ecology Letters 25, 1905 –1913 link

• Santangelo, J.S., and many co-authors, including Garroway CJ  (2022) Global urban environmental change drives adaptation in white clover. Science 375, 1275–1281 link

• Korpach A, Garroway CJ, Mills A, von Zuben V, Davy C, Fraser K (2022) Artificial light at night reduces the functional connectivity of migratory aerial habitat. Ecography, e05581 link

• Schmidt C, Treberg JR, Kinnunen RP, Garroway CJ (2022) Serum biochemistry suggests grey squirrels (Sciurus carolinensis) have poorer physiological condition in urban settings. Canadian Field-Naturalist 136, 20-29 pre-print

• Schmidt C, Dray S, Garroway CJ (2022) Genetic and species-level biodiversity patterns are linked by demography and ecological opportunity. Evolution 76, 86-100 pre-print 

• O’Brien PP, Bowman J, Newar SL, Garroway CJ (2022) Testing the parasite-mediated competition hypothesis between sympatric northern and southern flying squirrels​. International Journal for Parasitology: Parasites and Wildlife 17, 83-90 link

• Kinnunen RP, Fraser KC, Schmidt C, Garroway CJ (2022) The socioeconomic status of cities covaries with avian life-history strategies. Ecosphere e03918 link

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2021

• Suurväli J, Garroway CJ, Boudinot P (2021) Recurrent expansions of B30.2-associated immune receptor families in fish. Immunogenetics  link

• Docker MF, Bravenerb GA, Garroway CJ, Hrodey PJ, Hume JB, Johnson NS, Lewandoski SA, Ogden JL, Zollweg-Horanf EC (2021) A review of sea lamprey dispersal and population structure in the Great Lakes and the implications for control. Journal of Great Lakes Research, 47, S549-S569  full text link

• Leigh DM, van Rees CB, Millette KL, Breed MF, Schmidt C et al. (2021) Opportunities and challenges of macrogenetic studies. Nature Reviews Genetics 22, 791–807 link

• O'Brien PP,  Bowman J, Coombs AB, Newar SL, Garroway CJ (2021) Winter nest trees of sympatric northern and southern flying squirrels: a test of reinforcement in a hybrid zone. Canadian Journal of Zoology 99, 859-866 link

• Schmidt C, Garroway CJ (2021) The conservation utility of mitochondrial genetic diversity in macrogenetic research. Conservation Genetics 22, 323–327 link

• Schmidt C, Garroway CJ (2021) The population genetics of urban and rural amphibians in North America. Molecular Ecology 30, 3918-3929  link

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2020

• Garroway CJ, Schmidt C (2020) Perspective: Genomic evidence for parallel adaption to cities. Molecular Ecology 29, 3397-3399  full text link

• Falarz LJ, Xu Y, Caldo KMP, Garroway CJ, Singer SD, Chen G (2020) Characterization of the diversification of phospholipid:diacylglycerol acyltransferases in the green lineage. The Plant Journal 103, 2025-2038 link

• Lefort KJ, Garroway CJ, Ferguson SH (2020) Killer whale abundance and their predicted narwhal consumption in the Canadian Arctic. Global Change Biology 26, 4276-4283  link video summary

• Bilous M, Dunmall K (2020) Atlantic salmon in the Canadian Arctic: potential dispersal, establishment, and interaction with Arctic char. Reviews in Fish Biology and Fisheries 30, 463–483 link to full text

• Szulkin M, Garroway CJ, Corsini M, Kotarba AZ, Dominoni D (2020) How to quantify urbanisation when testing for urban evolution? In: Urban Evolutionary Biology. Edited by Marta Szulkin, Jason Munshi-South and Anne Charmantier: Oxford University Press. Pgs 13-35

• Lefort KJ, Matthews CJD, Higdon JW, Petersen SD, Westdal KH, Garroway CJ, Ferguson SH (2020) Canadian Arctic killer whales (Orcinus orca): a review of this lesser-known population’s ecology. Canadian Journal of Zoology 98, 245-253 Editor's Choice full text link

• ​​Schmidt C, Domaratzki M, Kinnunen RP, Bowman J, Garroway CJ (2020) Continent-wide effects of urbanization on genetic diversity of birds and mammals. Proceedings of the Royal Society B 287, 20192497 pre-print 

• ​Solmundson K, Bowman J, Adey E, Baici JE, Dillon RM, Dupuis AE, Marrotte RR, Morin SJ, Newar SL, O’Brien PP, Scott LM (2020) The Currency of Conservation: How Is Landscape Extent Applied in Conservation Planning? Current Landscape Ecology Reports link

 

 

 

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