Romiguier Jonathan
Faculty of Biology and Medicine
Department of Ecology and Evolution
University of La Laguna
Switzerland
Biography
Romiguier Jonathan is working as Faculty of Biology and Medicine in Department of Ecology and Evolution at University of Lausanne.
Research Interest
I am particularly fascinated by the genomic consequences of dramatic phenotypic evolution. During my PhD thesis, I linked life-history strategies of mammals to genomic evolution metrics, such as GC% or dN/dS. These relationships helped to better understand molecular evolution processes (birth of genomic landscapes, biased genetic conversion and efficiency of natural selection), but also to shed new light on the evolution of mammals (ancestral longevity estimations of our ancestors, rooting of the placental mammal phylogeny). Following this attempt to link genome evolution and species biology, I worked during my first post-doc on the determinants of genetic diversity disparities among animals. Analysing hundreds of transcriptomes in 71 non-model metazoan species, I showed that intraspecific polymorphism of a given species can be predicted by its biology.
Publications
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Romiguier J, Cameron SA, Woodard SH, Fischman BJ, Keller L, et al., (2016). Phylogenomics controlling for base compositional bias reveals a single origin of eusociality in corbiculate bees. Molecular biology and evolution. 2015 Nov 17;33(3):670-8.
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Roux C, Fraisse C, Romiguier J, Anciaux Y, Galtier N, et al., (2016). Shedding light on the grey zone of speciation along a continuum of genomic divergence. PLoS biology. 2016 Dec 27;14(12):e2000234.
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Romiguier J, Fournier A, Yek SH, Keller L. (2017). Convergent evolution of social hybridogenesis in Messor harvester ants. Molecular ecology. 2017 Feb 1;26(4):1108-17.
