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Dr Maeva Leitwein
A specialist in genomics and epigenomics, Maeva studies diversity, adaptation and the interactions between natural and domestic populations. She brings her research experience to questions of conservation and management.
Background
Coming from the academic world and originally from the Molène archipelago in Brittany, I am particularly interested in the use of genomic tools for biodiversity conservation.
My research mainly focuses on understanding and evaluating the evolutionary mechanisms that shape intra- and inter-population biodiversity at different time scales.
After a Master’s degree in marine biology, I specialised during my PhD in the use of genomics to assess the consequences of introducing domestic individuals into wild populations. During my post-doctorate in Canada, I used genomic and epigenomic tools to study the impact of fish farms on the genomic heritage and fitness of wild populations. These approaches helped me understand the evolutionary forces (positive or negative) that shape the genomic landscape of natural populations.
Back in France since 2021, I now study the effects of temperature, in the context of global warming, on sex determination in European sea bass. Alongside this, I study the effects of lineage mixing (ancestry) on the phenotype of individuals and the consequences for the adaptation of species to their environment.
Within LDgenX, I bring my expertise in genomics to answer conservation questions for better management of natural and domestic populations.
Publications
18 publications
- Larval survival in European seabass (Dicentrarchus labrax) is shaped by the natural thermal regime of their population of origin and the level of introgression of Atlantic and Mediterranean genomesRead the summary
- Chromosome-scale genome sequences of two Charadriiformes species: Scolopax rusticola and Lymnocryptes minimusRead the summary
- Reduced fitness associated with introgression within the Western Mediterranean admixed population of European seabassRead the summary
- The Fate of a Polygenic Phenotype Within the Genomic Landscapes of Introgression in the European Seabass Hybrid ZoneRead the summary
- Post-larval exposure to warm temperature enhances female ratio, while starvation and photoperiod do not: The case of European seabass, Dicentrarchus labraxRead the summary
- Genome-wide DNA methylation predicts environmentally driven life history variation in a marine fishRead the summary
- Redundancy analysis, genome-wide association studies and the pigmentation of brown trout (Salmo trutta L.)Read the summary
- Strong Parallel Differential Gene Expression Induced by Hatchery Rearing Weakly Associated with Methylation Signals in Adult Coho Salmon (O. kisutch)Read the summary
- Associative Overdominance and Negative Epistasis Shape Genome-Wide Ancestry Landscape in Supplemented Fish PopulationsRead the summary
- Epigenomic modifications induced by hatchery rearing persist in germ line cells of adult salmon after their oceanic migrationRead the summary
- Using Haplotype Information for Conservation GenomicsRead the summary
- Adaptive and maladaptive genetic diversity in small populations: Insights from the Brook Charr (Salvelinus fontinalis) case studyRead the summary
- The role of recombination on genome-wide patterns of local ancestry exemplified by supplemented brook charr populationsRead the summary
- Development of a large SNPs resource and a low-density SNP array for brown trout (Salmo trutta) population geneticsRead the summary
- Genomic consequences of a recent three-way admixture in supplemented wild brown trout populations revealed by local ancestry tractsRead the summary
- Ancestry and adaptive evolution of anadromous, resident, and adfluvial rainbow trout (Oncorhynchus mykiss) in the San Francisco bay area: application of adaptive genomic variation to conservation in a highly impacted landscapeRead the summary
- A Dense Brown Trout (Salmo trutta) Linkage Map Reveals Recent Chromosomal Rearrangements in the Salmo Genus and the Impact of Selection on Linked Neutral DiversityRead the summary
- Genome-wide nucleotide diversity of hatchery-reared Atlantic and Mediterranean strains of brown trout Salmo trutta compared to wild Mediterranean populationsRead the summary
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