2025
Lardinois, L.L., Hinojosa, N.A., Arrieta, H.Q., Sellers, A.J., Leray, M., Barrett, R.D.H. Host matters: coral reef fish species show distinct skin microbiome responses to abrupt environmental change. Royal Society Open Science submitted.
Kholwadwala, A., Katkov, E., Lypaczewski, P., Gonzalez, A., Barrett, R.D.H., Shapiro, B.J. Nutrient enrichment and connectivity jointly shape bacterioplankton diversity. Molecular Ecology submitted.
Ho, W.-Z., Lind, Å.J., Smith, R., Dwyer-Samuel, F., Pilgrim, S., Gear, G., Laing, R., Tomy, G., Mallory, M.L., Enook, J., Zahaby, Y., Provencher J.F., Barrett, R.D.H. (2025) Epigenetic responses to anthropogenic versus natural sources of oil exposure differ in wild Arctic seabird populations. Evolutionary Applications doi.org/10.1111/eva.70125.
Salamon, M., Barrett, R.D.H., Derry, A.M. Evolutionary rescue and adaptive reversal allowed the persistence of freshwater copepods during historical lake acidification and pH recovery. Proceedings of the Royal Society of London B in revision.
Heckley, A.M., Barrett, R.D.H., Bell, A.M., Bolnick, D.I., Dinh, F., Eckert, L., Haines, G.E., Peichel, C.L., Hendry, A.P., Gotanda, K.M. Testing the determinants of stickleback dispersal in introductions: insights from a whole-lake conservation translocation. Freshwater Biology submitted.
Carrión, P.L., Beausoleil, M., Raeymaekers, J.A.M., De León, L.F, Chaves, J.A., Sharpe, D.M.T., Huber, S.K., Herrel, A., Gotanda, K.M., Koop, J.A.H., Knutie, S.A., Clayton, D.H., Podos, J., Barrett, R.D.H., Guichard, F., Hendry, A.P. Darwin’s finches and climate change: insights from a resilient system. Journal of Evolutionary Biology in review.
Katkov, E. Gros, M., Fugère, V., Sychterz, A., Tadiri, C.P., Barrett, R.D.H., Cristescu, M., Fussmann, G.F., Gonzalez, A. (2025) Connectivity and nutrient enrichment affect the productivity and stability of aquatic meta-ecosystems. Proceedings of the Royal Society of London B accepted.
Eckert, L., Eckert, I., Rahn, O., So, C.P., Barrett, R.D.H. (2025) Genetic insights from herbarium collections and implications for global change research. New Phytologist doi.org/10.1111/nph.70454.
Sanderson, S., Eckert, L., Barrett, R.D.H., Reimchen, T., Hendry, A.P. Contemporary evolution of an at-risk stickleback population during a severe drought. Evolutionary Applications in review.
Xu, C. C. Y., Fugère, V., Barbosa da Costa, N., Beisner, B. E., Bell, G., Cristescu, M. E., Fussmann, G. F., Gonzalez, A., Shapiro, B. J., Barrett, R. D. H. (2025). Pre-exposure to stress reduces loss of community and genetic diversity following severe environmental disturbance. Current Biology. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.cub.2025.01.037
Loria, A., Tournayre, O., Hébert, M.-P., da Costa, N.B., Fugère, V., Barrett, R.D.H., Beisner, B.E., Gonzalez, A. and Cristescu, M.E. (2025), Estimating Rapid Diversity Changes During Acute Herbicide Contamination Using Environmental DNA. Environmental DNA, 7: e70029. https://doi.org/10.1002/edn3.70029
He, X., Maruki, T., Gamero, W.M., Barrett, R.D.H., Fugère, V., Fussmann, G.F., Gonzalez, A., Shapiro, B.J., Cristescu, M.E. Metatranscriptomics based on environmental RNA reveals glyphosate-based herbicide effects on a freshwater eukaryotic community. Nature Ecology and Evolution in review.
Garcia-Elfring, A., Paccard, A., Barrett, R.D.H. Genomics of freshwater adaptation in threespine stickleback from eastern Canada. Genome Biology and Evolution submitted.
Bolnick, D.I., Weber, J.N., Steinel, N.C., Barrett, R.D.H., Peichel, C.L., Choi, E., Lind, Å., Eckert, E., Peterson, C.R., Milligan-McClellan, K., Hendry, A.P. Destabilized host-parasite dynamics in newly founded populations. American Naturalist submitted. https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2024.06.24.600494v1.full.pdf.
Hu, J., Ren, X., Barrett, R.D.H., Samma, E., Sulkowski, M., Brady, S.P. Alternative splicing and parallel patterns of gene expression underlie population and life history divergence in an amphibian. Ecology and Evolution in review.
Garcia-Elfring, A., Roffey, H.L., Abergas, J.M., Hendry, A.P., Tzika, A.C., Barrett, R.D.H. (2025) Ball python colour morphs implicate mc1r in skin color patterning. Pigment Cell and Melanoma Research doi.org/10.1111.pcmr13215.
2024
Baduel, P., Sammarco, I., Barrett, R.D.H., Coronado-Zamora, M., Crespel, A., Díez-Rodríguez, B., Fox, J., Galanti, D., González, J., Jueterbock, A., Wootton, E., & Harney, E. (2024) The evolutionary consequences of interactions between the epigenome, the genome and the environment. Evolutionary Applications http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/eva.13730
Hendry, A.P., Barrett, R.D.H., Bell, A., Bell, M., Bolnick, D.I., Gotanda, K., Haines, G., Lind, Å., Packer, M., Peichel, C.L., Peterson, C., Poore, H., Massengill, R., McClellan, K., Steinel, N.C., Sanderson, S., Walsh, M., Weber, J.N., Derry, A.M. (2024) Designing eco-evolutionary experiments restoration projects: opportunities and constraints revealed during stickleback introductions. Ecology and Evolution https://doi.org/10.1002/ece3.11503.
2023
Beausoleil, M., Carrion-Aviles, P.L., Podos, J., Camacho, C., Richard, R., Lalla, K., Raeymaekers, J.A.M., Knutie, S.A., De Leon, L.F., Huber, S.K., Chaves, J.A., Clayton, D.H., Koop, J.A.H., Sharpe, D., Gotanda, K.M., Barrett, R.D.H., Hendry, A.P. (2023) The fitness landscape of a community of Darwin’s finches. Evolution https://doi.org/10.1093/evolut/qpad160.
Monchamp, M.-E., Taranu, Z.E., Garner, R.E., Rehill, T., Morissette, O., Iversen, L.L., Fugère, V., Littlefair, J.E., da Costa, N.B., Desforges, J.E., Sánchez Schacht, J.R., Derry, A.M., Cooke, S.J., Barrett, R.D.H., Walsh, D.A., Ragoussis, J., Albert, M., Cristescu, M.E., & Gregory-Eaves, I. (2023). Prioritizing taxa for genetic reference database development to advance inland water conservation. Biological Conservation. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.biocon.2023.109963
Garcia-Elfring, A., Louchmanov, A.L., Sabin, C.E., Roffey, H.L., Samudra, S.P., Alcala, A.J., Lauderdale, J.D., Hendry, A.P., Menke, D.B., Barrett, R.D.H. (2023) Piebaldism and chromatophore development in reptiles is linked to the tfec gene. Current Biology. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.cub.2023.01.004
2022
Thurman, T.J., Palmer, T.M., Kolbe, J.J., Askary, A., Daskin, J.H., Gotanda, K.M., LaPierda, O., Kartzinel, T.R., Man in’t Veld, N.A., Revell, L., Wegener, H., Spiller, D.A., Losos, J.B., Pringle, R.M.P., Barrett, R.D.H. (2022) Predicting evolutionary change in response to novel ecological interactions: a field experiment with Anolis lizards. American Naturalist. https://doi.org/10.1086/723209
2021
Garcia‐Elfring, A., Paccard, A., Thurman, T.J., Wasserman, B.A., Palkovacs, E.P., Hendry, A.P. and Barrett, R.D.H. (2021), Using seasonal genomic changes to understand historical adaptation to new environments: Parallel selection on stickleback in highly‐variable estuaries. Molecular Ecology. https://doi.org/10.1111/mec.15879.
Costa N.B., Fugère V., Hébert M.-P., Costa N.B., Xu C.C., Barrett R.D.H., Beisner, B.E., Bell G., Fussmann G.F., Yargeau V., Fussmann, G.F., Gonzalez A., Shapiro B.J. (2021). Resistance, resilience, and functional redundancy of freshwater microbial communities facing multiple agricultural stressors in a mesocosm experiment. Molecular Ecology https://doi.org/10.1111/mec.16100.
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2025
Lardinois, L.L., Hinojosa, N.A., Arrieta, H.Q., Sellers, A.J., Leray, M., Barrett, R.D.H. Host matters: coral reef fish species show distinct skin microbiome responses to abrupt environmental change. Proceedings of the Royal Society of London B submitted. | |
Kholwadwala, A., Katkov, E., Lypaczewski, P., Gonzalez, A., Barrett, R.D.H., Shapiro, B.J. Nutrient enrichment and connectivity jointly shape bacterioplankton diversity. Proceedings of the Royal Society of London B submitted. | |
Ho, W.-Z., Lind, Å.J., Smith, R., Dwyer-Samuel, F., Pilgrim, S., Gear, G., Laing, R., Tomy, G., Mallory, M.L., Enook, J., Zahaby, Y., Provencher J.F., Barrett, R.D.H. (2025) Epigenetic responses to anthropogenic versus natural sources of oil exposure differ in wild Arctic seabird populations. Evolutionary Applications doi.org/10.1111/eva70125. | |
Fox, J., Reader, S., Guigueno, M.F., Barrett, R.D.H. (2025) Changes in grouping behaviour and DNA methylation patterns in response to early-life stress in Trinidadian guppies. Molecular Ecology 0.e:17831. doi.org/10.1111/mec.17831. | ![]() |
Glynn, V.M., Marangoni, L.F., Guglielmetti, M., Tapia, E.R., Ali, V., Quintero, H., Guerra, E.C.R., Yuval, M., Kline, D.I., Leray, M., Connolly, S.R., Barrett, R.D.H. (2025) The role of holobiont composition and environmental history in thermotolerance of Tropical Eastern Pacific corals. Current Biology 35: 1-16.e1-e7. | ![]() |
Salamon, M., Barrett, R.D.H., Derry, A.M. Evolutionary rescue and adaptive reversal allowed the persistence of freshwater copepods during historical lake acidification and pH recovery. Proceedings of the Royal Society of London B in revision. | |
Fox, J., Reader, S., Barrett, R.D.H. (2025) Rapid neural DNA methylation responses to predation stress in Trinidadian guppies. Molecular Ecology 0:e17774. doi.org/10.1111/mec.17774. | ![]() |
Garcia-Elfring, A., Roffey, H.L., Abergas, J.M., Hendry, A.P., Barrett, R.D.H. (2025) GTP cyclohydolase 1 and axanthism in ball pythons: a new vertebrate model for pterin-based pigmentation. Animal Genetics 56: e70011. https://doi.org/10.1111/age.70011. | ![]() |
Heckley, A.M., Barrett, R.D.H., Bell, A.M., Bolnick, D.I., Dinh, F., Eckert, L., Haines, G.E., Peichel, C.L., Hendry, A.P., Gotanda, K.M. Testing the determinants of stickleback dispersal in introductions: insights from a whole-lake conservation translocation. Freshwater Biology submitted. | |
Carrión, P.L., Beausoleil, M., Raeymaekers, J.A.M., De León, L.F, Chaves, J.A., Sharpe, D.M.T., Huber, S.K., Herrel, A., Gotanda, K.M., Koop, J.A.H., Knutie, S.A., Clayton, D.H., Podos, J., Barrett, R.D.H., Guichard, F., Hendry, A.P. Darwin’s finches and climate change: insights from a resilient system. Global Change Biology submitted. | |
Katkov, E. Gros, M., Fugère, V., Sychterz, A., Tadiri, C.P., Barrett, R.D.H., Cristescu, M., Fussmann, G.F., Gonzalez, A. Connectivity and nutrient enrichment affect the productivity and stability of aquatic meta-ecosystems. Proceedings of the Royal Society of London B submitted. | |
Eckert, L., Eckert, I., Rahn, O., So, C.P., Barrett, R.D.H. Genetic insights from herbarium collections and implications for global change research. New Phytologist in review. | |
Sanderson, S., Eckert, L., Barrett, R.D.H., Reimchen, T., Hendry, A.P. Contemporary evolution of an at-risk stickleback population during a severe drought. Evolutionary Applications submitted. | |
Zhao, J., Luo, M., Merila, J., Barrett, R.D.H., Guo, B., Hu, J. (2025) The interplay between epigenomic and transcriptomic variation in divergence of stickleback ecotypes. BMC Biology 23(1):70. doi.org/10.1186/s12915-025-02176-0. | |
Xu, C. C. Y., Fugère, V., Barbosa da Costa, N., Beisner, B. E., Bell, G., Cristescu, M. E., Fussmann, G. F., Gonzalez, A., Shapiro, B. J., Barrett, R. D. H. (2025). Pre-exposure to stress reduces loss of community and genetic diversity following severe environmental disturbance. Current Biology. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.cub.2025.01.037 | ![]() |
Loria, A., Tournayre, O., Hébert, M.-P., da Costa, N.B., Fugère, V., Barrett, R.D.H., Beisner, B.E., Gonzalez, A. and Cristescu, M.E. (2025), Estimating Rapid Diversity Changes During Acute Herbicide Contamination Using Environmental DNA. Environmental DNA, 7: e70029. https://doi.org/10.1002/edn3.70029 | ![]() |
Garcia-Elfring, A., Roffey, H.L., Abergas, J.M., Wuyts, J., Hendry, A.P., Tzika, A.C., Barrett, R.D.H. (2025), A Ball Python Colour Morph Implicates MC1R in Melanophore–Xanthophore Distribution and Pattern Formation. Pigment Cell Melanoma Res, 38: e13215. https://doi.org/10.1111/pcmr.13215 | ![]() |
2024
Salamon, M., Astorg, L., Paccard, A., Chain, F., Hendry, A.P., Derry, A.M., Barrett, R.D.H. (2024) Limited migration from physiological refugia constrains the rescue of native gastropods facing an invasive predator. Evolutionary Applications 17(10): e70004. https://doi.org/10.1111/eva.70004 | ![]() |
He, X., Maruki, T., Gamero, W.M., Barrett, R.D.H., Fugère, V., Fussmann, G.F., Gonzalez, A., Shapiro, B.J., Cristescu, M.E. Metatranscriptomics based on environmental RNA reveals glyphosate-based herbicide effects on a freshwater eukaryotic community. Nature Ecology and Evolution in review. | |
Derrick, E., Costa, N.B., Barrett, R.D.H., Shapiro, B.J. A glyphosate-based herbicide selects for genetic changes while retaining within-species diversity in a freshwater bacterioplankton community. The ISME Journal submitted. https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2024.09.17.613573v1.full.pdf. | ![]() |
Luo, M., Guo, H., Barrett, R.D.H., Hu, J. Parallel plastic responses and adaptive potential to projected salinization in freshwater fish. Molecular Ecology in review. | |
Baduel, P., Sammarco, I., Barrett, R.D.H., Coronado-Zamora, M., Crespel, A., Díez-Rodríguez, B., Fox, J., Galanti, D., González, J., Jueterbock, A., Wootton, E., & Harney, E. (2024) The evolutionary consequences of interactions between the epigenome, the genome and the environment. Evolutionary Applications http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/eva.13730 | ![]() |
Bolnick, D.I., Weber, J.N., Steinel, N.C., Barrett, R.D.H., Peichel, C.L., Choi, E., Lind, Å., Eckert, E., Peterson, C.R., Milligan-McClellan, K., Hendry, A.P. (2024) Destabilized host-parasite dynamics in newly founded populations. Proceedings of the National Academy of Science USA submitted. https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2024.06.24.600494v1.full.pdf | ![]() |
Fox, J., Toure, M.W., Heckley, A., Raina, F., Reader, S., Barrett, R.D.H. (2024) Insights into adaptive behavioural plasticity from the guppy model system. Proceedings of the Royal Society of London B https://doi.org/10.1098/rspb.2023.2625 | ![]() |
Fox, J., Hunt, D., Hendry, A.P., Chapman, L., Barrett, R.D.H. (2024) Counter-gradient variation contributes to divergence of colonizing populations of fish in varying dissolved oxygen environments. Molecular Ecology http://doi.org/10.1111/mec.17419. | ![]() |
Hendry, A.P., Barrett, R.D.H., Bell, A., Bell, M., Bolnick, D.I., Gotanda, K., Haines, G., Lind, Å., Packer, M., Peichel, C.L., Peterson, C., Poore, H., Massengill, R., McClellan, K., Steinel, N.C., Sanderson, S., Walsh, M., Weber, J.N., Derry, A.M. (2024) Designing eco-evolutionary experiments restoration projects: opportunities and constraints revealed during stickleback introductions. Ecology and Evolution https://doi.org/10.1002/ece3.11503. | ![]() |
2023
Beausoleil, M., Carrion-Aviles, P.L., Podos, J., Camacho, C., Richard, R., Lalla, K., Raeymaekers, J.A.M., Knutie, S.A., De Leon, L.F., Huber, S.K., Chaves, J.A., Clayton, D.H., Koop, J.A.H., Sharpe, D., Gotanda, K.M., Barrett, R.D.H., Hendry, A.P. (2023) The fitness landscape of a community of Darwin’s finches. Evolution https://doi.org/10.1093/evolut/qpad160. | ![]() |
Martins, A.R.P., Warren, N., McMillan, W.O., Barrett, R.D.H. (2023) Spatiotemporal dynamics in butterfly hybrid zones. Insect Science 10.1111/1744-7917.13262. | ![]() |
Xu, C.C.Y., Lemoine, J., Albert, A., Mac Whirter, É, Barrett, R.D.H. (2023) Community assembly of the human piercing microbiome. Proceedings of the Royal Society of London B. https://doi.org/10.1098/rspb.2023.1174. | ![]() |
Monchamp, M.-E., Taranu, Z.E., Garner, R.E., Rehill, T., Morissette, O., Iversen, L.L., Fugère, V., Littlefair, J.E., da Costa, N.B., Desforges, J.E., Sánchez Schacht, J.R., Derry, A.M., Cooke, S.J., Barrett, R.D.H., Walsh, D.A., Ragoussis, J., Albert, M., Cristescu, M.E., & Gregory-Eaves, I. (2023). Prioritizing taxa for genetic reference database development to advance inland water conservation. Biological Conservation. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.biocon.2023.109963 | ![]() |
Garcia-Elfring, A., Louchmanov, A.L., Sabin, C.E., Roffey, H.L., Samudra, S.P., Alcala, A.J., Lauderdale, J.D., Hendry, A.P., Menke, D.B., Barrett, R.D.H. (2023) Piebaldism and chromatophore development in reptiles is linked to the tfec gene. Current Biology. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.cub.2023.01.004 | ![]() |
2022
Glynn, V.M., Vollmer, S.V., Kline, D.I., Barrett, R.D.H. (2022) Environmental and geographic factors structure cauliflower coral’s algal symbioses across the Indo-Pacific. Journal of Biogeography. https://doi.org/10.1111/jbi.14560 | ![]() |
Hu, J. and Barrett, R.D.H. (2022) Plastic and evolved DNA methylation during parallel adaptation of threespine stickleback (Gasterosteus aculeatus). Molecular Ecology. https://doi.org/10.1111/mec.16832 | ![]() |
Martins, A.R.P., Martins, L.P., Ho, W., McMillan, W.O., Ready, J.S., Barrett, R.D.H. (2022) Scale-dependent environmental effects on phenotypic distributions in Heliconius butterflies. Ecology and Evolution. https://doi.org/10.1002/ece3.9286. | ![]() |
Thurman, T.J., Palmer, T.M., Kolbe, J.J., Askary, A., Daskin, J.H., Gotanda, K.M., LaPierda, O., Kartzinel, T.R., Man in’t Veld, N.A., Revell, L., Wegener, H., Spiller, D.A., Losos, J.B., Pringle, R.M.P., Barrett, R.D.H. (2022) Predicting evolutionary change in response to novel ecological interactions: a field experiment with Anolis lizards. American Naturalist. https://doi.org/10.1086/723209 | ![]() |
Wuitchik, S.J.S., Mogensen, S., Barry, T.N., Paccard, A., Jamniczky, H.A., Barrett, R.D.H., Rogers, S.M. (2022) Evolution of thermal physiology alters the projected range of threespine stickleback under climate change. Molecular Ecology. https://doi.org/10.1111/mec.16396 | ![]() |
Beausoleil, M., Camacho, C., Rabadán-González, J., Richard, R., Lalla, K., Carrion-Aviles, P., Hendry, A.P., Barrett, R.D.H. (2022) Where did the finch go? Insights from radio telemetry of the medium ground finch (Geospiza fortis). Ecology & Evolution. https://doi.org/10.1002/ece3.8768 | ![]() |
2021
Xu, C.C.Y., Ramsay, C., Cowan, M., Dehghani, M., Lasko, P., Barrett, R.D.H. (2021) Transgenes of genetically modified animals detected non-invasively via environmental DNA. PLOS ONE 16(8): e0249439. https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0249439 | ![]() |
Hu, J., Wuitchik, S.J.S., Barry, T., Rogers, S.M., Jamniczky, H.A., Barrett, R.D.H. (2021) Heritability of DNA methylation in threespine stickleback (Gasterosteus aculeatus). Genetics 217: 1-15. | ![]() |
Garcia‐Elfring, A., Paccard, A., Thurman, T.J., Wasserman, B.A., Palkovacs, E.P., Hendry, A.P. and Barrett, R.D.H. (2021), Using seasonal genomic changes to understand historical adaptation to new environments: Parallel selection on stickleback in highly‐variable estuaries. Molecular Ecology. https://doi.org/10.1111/mec.15879. | ![]() |
Hébert, M.-P., Fugère V., Beisner, B.E., Costa N.B., Barrett R.D.H., Bell G., Shapiro B.J., Yargeau V., Gonzalez A., Fussmann G.F. (2021) Widespread agrochemicals differentially affect zooplankton biomass and community structure. Ecological Applications https://doi.org/10.1002/eap.2423 | ![]() |
Costa N.B., Fugère V., Hébert M.-P., Costa N.B., Xu C.C., Barrett R.D.H., Beisner, B.E., Bell G., Fussmann G.F., Yargeau V., Fussmann, G.F., Gonzalez A., Shapiro B.J. (2021). Resistance, resilience, and functional redundancy of freshwater microbial communities facing multiple agricultural stressors in a mesocosm experiment. Molecular Ecology https://doi.org/10.1111/mec.16100. | ![]() |
2020
Fugère V., Hébert M.-P., Costa N.B., Xu C.C., Barrett R.D.H., Beisner, B.E., Bell G., Fussmann G.F., Shapiro B.J., Yargeau V., Gonzalez A. (2020) Community rescue in experimental freshwater ecosystems facing severe pesticide pollution. Nature Ecology and Evolution doi.org/10.1038/s41559-020-1134-5. | ![]() |
Stange, M., Barrett, R.D.H., Hendry, A.P. (2020) Genetics and genomics for ecosystem services and nature’s contributions to people. Nature Reviews Genetics https://doi.org/10.1038/s41576-020-00288-7. | ![]() |
Ecosystem size shapes antipredator trait evolution in estuarine threespine stickleback. Wasserman, B.A., Paccard, A., Apgar, T.M., Des Roches, S., Barrett, R.D.H., Hendry, A.P., Palkovacs, E.P. (2020) Oikos https://doi.org/10.1111/oik.07482. | ![]() |
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