Publications

2021

  • Sepers, B., Erven, J. A., Gawehns - Bruning, F. K. K., Laine, V., & van Oers, K. (2021). Epigenetics and Early Life Stress: Experimental Brood Size Affects DNA Methylation in Great Tits (Parus major). Frontiers in Ecology and Evolution, 9, [609061]. https://doi.org/10.3389/fevo.2021.609061
  • Lindner, M., Laine, V., Verhagen, I. C., Viitaniemi, H., Visser, M. E., van Oers, K., & Husby, A. (2021). Rapid changes in DNA methylation associated with the initiation of reproduction in a small songbird. Molecular Ecology, 30(15), 3645-3659. https://doi.org/10.1111/mec.15803
  • Lindner, M., Verhagen, I., Viitaniemi, H. M., Laine, V. N., Visser, M. E., Husby, A., & van Oers, K. (2021). Temporal changes in DNA methylation and RNA expression in a small song bird: within- and between-tissue comparisons. BMC Genomics, 22(1), [36]. https://doi.org/10.1186/s12864-020-07329-9

    • 2019

  • Sepers, B., van den Heuvel, K., Lindner, M., Viitaniemi, H., Husby, A., & van Oers, K. (2019). Avian ecological epigenetics: pitfalls and promises. Journal of Ornithology, 160(4), 1183-1203. https://doi.org/10.1007/s10336-019-01684-5
  • Laine, V. N., Gossmann, T. I., van Oers, K., Visser, M. E., & Groenen, M. A. M. (2019). Exploring the unmapped DNA and RNA reads in a songbird genome. BMC Genomics, 20(1), [19]. https://doi.org/10.1186/s12864-018-5378-2
  • Paun, O., Verhoeven, K. J. F., & Richards, C. L. (2019). Opportunities and limitations of reduced representation bisulfite sequencing in plant ecological epigenomics. New Phytologist, 221(2), 738-742. https://doi.org/10.1111/nph.15388

    • 2018

  • Bengston, S., Dahan, R., Donaldson, Z., Phelps, S., van Oers, K., Sih, A., & Bell, A. (2018). Genomic tools for behavioral ecologists to understand repeatable individual differences in behavior. Nature Ecology and Evolution, 2, 944-955. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41559-017-0411-4
  • Verhoeven, K. J. F., Verbon, E. H., Van Gurp, T. P., Oplaat, C., Ferreira de Carvalho, J. L., Morse, A. M., Stahl, M., Macel, M., & McIntyre, L. M. (2018). Intergenerational environmental effects: Functional signals in offspring transcriptomes and metabolomes after parental jasmonic acid treatment in apomictic dandelion. New Phytologist, 217(2), 871-882. https://doi.org/10.1111/nph.14835
  • Ruuskanen, S., Groothuis, T. G. G., Baugh, A. T., Schaper, S. V., de Vries, B., & van Oers, K. (2018). Maternal egg hormones in the mating context: the effect of pair personality. Functional Ecology, 32(2), 439-449. https://doi.org/10.1111/1365-2435.12987

    • 2017

  • Macel, M., Dostálek, T., Esch, S., Bucharová, A., van Dam, N. M., Tielbörger, K., Verhoeven, K. J. F., & Münzbergová, Z. (2017). Evolutionary responses to climate change in a range expanding plant. Oecologia, 184(2), 543-554. https://doi.org/10.1007/s00442-017-3864-x
  • Morgado, L., Preite, V., Oplaat, C., Anava, S., Ferreira de Carvalho, J. L., Rechavi, O., Johannes, F., & Verhoeven, K. J. F. (2017). Small RNAs reflect grandparental environments in apomictic dandelion: Letter. Molecular Biology and Evolution, [msx150]. https://doi.org/10.1093/molbev/msx150

    • 2016

  • Huber, M., Epping, J., Schulze Gronover, C., Fricke, J., Aziz, Z., Brillatz, T., Swyers, M., Köllner, T. G., Vogel, H., Hammerbacher, A., Triebwasser-Freese, D., Robert, C. A. M., Verhoeven, K., Preite, V., Gershenzon, J., & Erb, M. (2016). A Latex Metabolite Benefits Plant Fitness under Root Herbivore Attack. PLoS Biology, 14(1), e1002332 EP -. https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pbio.1002332
  • Cobben, M. M. P., & van Oers, K. (2016). Bolder Takes All and the role of epigenetics. A comment on Canestrelli et al. Letter. Trends in Ecology & Evolution, 31(7), 498-499. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.tree.2016.04.007
  • Groot, M., Kooke, R., Knoben, N., Vergeer, P., Keurentjes, J., Ouborg, J., & Verhoeven, K. J. F. (2016). Effects of multi-generational stress exposure and offspring environment on the expression and persistence of transgenerational effects in Arabidopsis thaliana. PLoS One, 11(3), [ e0151566]. https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0151566
  • van Gurp, T. P., Wagemaker, N. CAM., Wouters, B., Vergeer, P., Ouborg, J. NJ., & Verhoeven, K. JF. (2016). epiGBS: reference-free reduced representation bisulfite sequencing: brief communication. Nature Methods, 13(4), 322-324. https://doi.org/10.1038/nmeth.3763
  • Verhoeven, K. J. F., vonHoldt, B., & Sork, V. (2016). Epigenetics in ecology and evolution: what we know and what we need to know. Molecular Ecology, 25(8), 1631-1638. https://doi.org/10.1111/mec.13617
  • Verhulst, E., Mateman, A. C., Zwier, M. V., Caro, S. P., Verhoeven, K. J. F., & van Oers, K. (2016). Evidence from Pyrosequencing Indicates that Natural Variation in Animal Personality is Associated with DRD4 DNA Methylation. Molecular Ecology, 25(8), 1801-1811. https://doi.org/10.1111/mec.13519
  • Laine, V., Gossmann, T. I., Schachtschneider, K. M., Garroway, C. J., Madsen, O., Verhoeven, K. J. F., de Jager, V. C. L., Megens, H-J., Warren, W. C., Minx, P., Crooijmans, R. P. M. A., Corcoran, P., The Great Tit Hapmap Consortium, Sheldon, B. C., Slate, J., Zeng, K., van Oers, K., Visser, M. E., & Groenen, M. A. M. (2016). Evolutionary signals of selection on cognition from the great tit genome and methylome. Nature Communications, 7, [10474]. https://doi.org/10.1038/ncomms10474
  • Derks, M., Schachtschneider, K. M., Madsen, O., Schijlen, E. GWM., Verhoeven, K. J. F., & van Oers, K. (2016). Gene and transposable element methylation in great tit (Parus major) brain and blood. BMC Genomics, 17, [332]. https://doi.org/10.1186/s12864-016-2653-y
  • Foust, C. M., Preite, V., Schrey, A. W., Alvarez, M., Robertson, M. H., Verhoeven, K. J. F., & Richards, C. L. (2016). Genetic and epigenetic differences associated with environmental gradients in replicate populations of two salt marsh perennials. Molecular Ecology, 25(8), 1639-1652. https://doi.org/10.1111/mec.13522
  • Ferreira de Carvalho, J. L., Oplaat, C., Pappas, N., Derks, M., de Ridder, D., & Verhoeven, K. J. F. (2016). Heritable gene expression differences between apomictic clone members in Taraxacum officinale: : Insights into early stages of evolutionary divergence in asexual plants. BMC Genomics, 17(1), 1-13. https://doi.org/10.1186/s12864-016-2524-6
  • Kirschner, J., Oplaat, C., Verhoeven, K. J. F., Zeisek, V., Uhlemann, I., Trávnícek, B., Räsänen, J., Wilschut, R. A., & Štěpánek, J. (2016). Identification of oligoclonal agamospermous microspecies: taxonomic specialists versus microsatellites. Preslia, 88, 1-17. http://www.preslia.cz/P161Kirschner.pdf
  • Wilschut, R. A., Oplaat, C., Snoek, B., Kirschner, J., & Verhoeven, K. J. F. (2016). Natural epigenetic variation contributes to heritable flowering divergence in a widespread asexual dandelion lineage. Molecular Ecology, 25(8), 1759-1768. https://doi.org/10.1111/mec.13502
  • Ferreira de Carvalho, J. L., de Jager, V. C. L., Van Gurp, T. P., Wagenmaker, N., & Verhoeven, K. J. F. (2016). Recent and dynamic transposable elements contribute to genomic divergence under asexuality. BMC Genomics, 17, [884]. https://doi.org/10.1186/s12864-016-3234-9
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