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Professor Stuart Piertney

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Professor Stuart Piertney
Professor Stuart Piertney
Professor Stuart Piertney

Dean for Postgraduate Research, Chair in Molecular Ecology and Evolution

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Email Address
s.piertney@abdn.ac.uk
Telephone Number
+44 (0)1224 272864
Office Address

Rooms 410 (Office) and 222 (Lab) Zoology Building

School/Department
Provost
School/Department
School of Biological Sciences




Research

Research Overview

Research within the Piertney-Lab focuses on the interplay between evolutionary and ecological dynamics in natural populations. From an eco-to-evo perspective, I examine how different ecological, environmental and behavioural processes drive microevolution, adaptation and speciation. Then from an evo-to-eco perspective, I link how genetic diversity affects individual fitness, population dynamics, ecosystem function and population persistence.

Studies have either a gene-centric focus, examining candidate genes of known ecological importance and adaptive significance (e.g. MHC, MC1R, IFN), or exploit next-generation 'omics technologies to gain a more holistic understanding of adaptation and genome-wide responses to environmental and ecological change.

 

Current Research

  • Piezophilic adaptation in deep-ocean amphipods (NERC).
  • The genomic landscape of speciation and adaptive variation in the intertidal isopod Jaera albifrons (NERC).
  • Emergence, spread and persistence of maine invasive non-native species (with Marine Scotland Science, and South Atlantic Environment Research Institute).
  • Genome-wide responses to demographic perturbation in insular populations of water voles (BBSRC)
  • PolyExESS - Extreme environment simulation system for experimental evolution (NERC).
  • The ecology, evolution and epidemiology of zoonotic pathogens in fragmented multi-host populations (BBSRC).
  • The epigenomic landscape of maternal effects in the soil mite Sancassania berlesei (NERC).
Teaching

Courses

Publications

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  • The genomic landscape of pre-zygotic reproductive isolation in a sympatric species complex of intertidal isopods (Jaera albifrons)

    Wenzel, M., Mifsud, D. V., Douglas, A., Piertney, S.
    Contributions to Conferences: Oral Presentations

  • Phylogeography of Rattus norvegicus in the South Atlantic Ocean

    Hingston, M., Poncet, S., Passfield, K., Tabak, M. A., Gabriel, S. I., Piertney, S. B., Russell, J. C.
    Differentiation: Research in Biological Diversity, vol. 8, no. 4, 32
    Contributions to Journals: Articles
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  • The compensatory potential of increased immigration following intensive American mink population control is diluted by male-biased dispersal

    Oliver, M. K., Piertney, S. B., Zalewski, A., Melero, Y., Lambin, X.
    Biological Invasions, vol. 18, pp. 3047-3061
    Contributions to Journals: Articles
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  • Evidence of the phenotypic expression of a lethal recessive allele under inbreeding in a wild population of conservation concern

    Trask, A. E., Bignal, E. M., McCracken, D. I., Monaghan, P., Piertney, S. B., Reid, J. M.
    Journal of Animal Ecology, vol. 85, no. 4, pp. 879-891
    Contributions to Journals: Articles
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  • Isolation and Characterization of Microsatellite DNA Markers in the Deep-Sea Amphipod Paralicella tenuipes by Illumina MiSeq Sequencing

    Ritchie, H., Jamieson, A. J., Piertney, S. B.
    Journal of Heredity, vol. 107, no. 4, pp. 367-371
    Contributions to Journals: Articles
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  • Adaptive and neutral genetic differentiation among Scottish and endangered Irish red grouse (Lagopus lagopus scotica)

    Meyer-Lucht, Y., Mulder, K. P., James, M. C., McMahon, B. J., Buckley, K., Piertney, S. B., Höglund, J.
    Conservation Genetics, vol. 17, no. 3, pp. 615-630
    Contributions to Journals: Articles
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  • Harvested populations are more variable only in more variable environments

    Cameron, T. C., O'Sullivan, D., Reynolds, A., Hicks, J. P., Piertney, S. B., Benton, T. G.
    Ecology and Evolution, vol. 6, no. 12, pp. 4179-4191
    Contributions to Journals: Articles
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  • Resolving patterns of population genetic and phylogeographic structure to inform control and eradication initiatives for brown rats Rattus norvegicus on South Georgia

    Piertney, S. B., Black, A., Watt, L., Christie, D., Poncet, S., Collins, M. A.
    Journal of Applied Ecology, vol. 53, no. 2, pp. 332-339
    Contributions to Journals: Articles
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  • Morphological and ontogenetic stratification of abyssal and hadal Eurythenes gryllus sensu lato (Amphipoda:Lysianassoidea) from the Peru-Chile Trench

    Eustace, R. M., Ritchie, H., Kilgallen, N. M., Piertney, S. B., Jamieson, A. J.
    Deep Sea Research Part I: Oceanographic Research Papers, vol. 109, pp. 91-98
    Contributions to Journals: Articles
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  • The role of parasite-driven selection in shaping landscape genomic structure in red grouse (Lagopus lagopus scotica)

    Wenzel, M. A., Douglas, A., James, M. C., Redpath, S. M., Piertney, S. B.
    Molecular Ecology, vol. 25, no. 1, pp. 324-341
    Contributions to Journals: Articles
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