Rodrigues Nicolas
Faculty of Biology and Medicine
Department of ecology and evolution
University of Lausanne
Switzerland
Biography
Rodrigues Nicolas is working as Faculty of Biology and Medicine in Department of Ecology and Evolution at University of Lausanne.
Research Interest
My research interests go from evolutionary biology to sexual selection and behaviour, through population genetics. In particular, I am fascinated by the diversity of sex-determination mechanisms and the evolution of sex chromosomes. Many of the evolutionary processes leading to this diversity remain unclear, as fundamental as they can be. How and why are ectothermic species distributed along a continuum between fully genetic- and fully environmental sex-determination? During my PhD, I will try to understand how this model can be applied to an extremely widepsread amphibian species and how it affects the dynamics of sex chromosome evolution in populations under both genetic and environmental influences.
Publications
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Rodrigues N, Vuille Y, Brelsford A, Merilä J, Perrin N. (2016). The genetic contribution to sex determination and number of sex chromosomes vary among populations of common frogs (Rana temporaria). Heredity. 2016 Jul 1;117(1):25-32.
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Ma WJ, Rodrigues N, Sermier R, Brelsford A, Perrin N. (2016). Dmrt1 polymorphism covaries with sexâ€determination patterns in Rana temporaria. Ecology and evolution. 2016 Aug 1;6(15):5107-17.
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Rodrigues N, Dufresnes C. (2017). Using conventional F-statistics to study unconventional sex-chromosome differentiation. PeerJ. 2017 Apr 27;5:e3207.
