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Mérot, C., Stenløkk, K. S. R., Venney, C., Laporte, M., Moser, M., Normandeau, E., Árnyasi, M., Kent, M., Rougeux, C., Flynn, J. M., Lien, S., & Bernatchez, L. 2022. Genome assembly, structural variants, and genetic differentiation between lake whitefish young species pairs (Coregonus sp.) with long and short reads. Molecular Ecology, 00, 1- 20. https://doi.org/10.1111/mec.16468

Mérot, C 2022. Evolution: How important is the dimensionality of natural selection in local adaptation? Current Biology, 32(6), R274-R276. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.cub.2022.02.052

Dallaire X, Mérot C. 2022. A setback into a success: What can batch effects tell us about best practices in genomics? Molecular Ecology Ressources, 00:1-3 https://doi.org/10.1111/1755-0998.13615

Mérot C, Berdan E, Cayuela H, Djambazian H, Ferchaud A-L, Laporte M, Normandeau E, Ragoussis J, Wellenreuther M, Bernatchez L. 2021. Chromosomal rearrangements represent modular cassettes for local adaptation across different geographic scales. Molecular Biology and Evolution, 38 (9), 3953-3971 https://doi.org/10.1093/molbev/msab143

Berdan EL, Mérot C, Pavia H, Johannesson K, Wellenreuther M and Butlin RK. 2021. A large chromosomal inversion shapes gene expression in seaweed flies (Coelopa frigida). Evolution Letters, 5: 607-624. https://doi.org/10.1002/evl3.260

Ferchaud A-L, Mérot C, Normandeau E, Ragoussis J ,Babin C, Djambazian H, Bérubé P, Audet C, Treble M, Walkusz W, Bernatchez L. 2021. Chromosome-level assembly reveals a putative Y-autosomal fusion in the sex determination system of the Greenland Halibut (Reinhardtius hippoglossoides). G3, 12 (1), jkab376 https://doi.org/10.1093/g3journal/jkab376

Cayuela H, Dorant Y, Mérot C, Laporte M., Normandeau E., Gagnon-Harvey S., Sirois P., Bernatchez L. 2021. Thermal adaptation rather than demographic history drives genetic structure inferred by copy number variants in a marine fish. Molecular Ecology. 30: 1624-1641. https://doi.org/10.1111/mec.15835

Mérot C. , Oomen R., Tigano A.,Wellenreuther M. 2020. A roadmap for understanding the evolutionary significance of structural genomic variation Trends in Ecology and Evolution (TREE). https://doi.org/10.1016/j.tree.2020.03.002

Mérot C. , LLaurens V., Normandeau E., Bernatchez L., Wellenreuther M. 2020. Balancing selection via life-history trade-offs maintains an inversion polymorphism in a seaweed fly Nature Communications; 11(670) https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-020-14479-7 pdf

Mérot C. , Debat V., Le Poul Y., Merrill R., Naisbit R., Tholance A., Jiggins CD., Joron, M. 2020. Hybridization and transgressive exploration of colour pattern and wing morphology in Heliconius butterflies. Journal of Evolutionary Biology https://doi.org/10.1111/jeb.13626

Moest M., Van Belleghem SM., James JE., Salazar C., Martin SH., Barker SL., Moreira GRP., Mérot C. , Joron M., Nadeau NJ., Steiner FM., Jiggins CD. 2020. Selective sweeps on novel and introgressed variation shape mimicry loci in a butterfly adaptive radiation. PLOS Biology 18(2): e3000597. https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pbio.3000597

Cayuela H., Dorant Y., Mérot C. , Laporte M., Normandeau E., Gagnon-Harvey S., Sirois P., Bernatchez L. 2020. Thermal adaptation rather than demographic history drives genetic structure inferred by copy number variants in a marine fish. bioRxiv. https://doi.org/10.1101/2020.04.05.026443

Dorant Y., Cayuela H., Wellband K., Laporte M., Rougemont Q., Mérot C. , Normandeau E., Rochette R., Bernatchez, L. 2020. Copy number variants outperform SNPs to reveal genotype-temperature association in a marine species. bioRxiv. https://doi.org/10.1101/2020.01.28.923490

Cayuela H., Rougemont Q., Laporte M., Mérot C., Normandeau E., Dorant Y., Torresen OK, Khang Hoff SN., Jentoft S., Sirois P., Castonguay M, Jansen T., Praebel K., Clément M., Bernatchez L. 2019. Standing genetic variation and chromosomal rearrangements facilitate local adaptation in a marine fish. bioRxiv, https://doi.org/10.1101/782201.

Wellenreuther, M, Mérot , C, Berdan, E, Bernatchez, L.2019. Going beyond SNPs: The role of structural genomic variants in adaptive evolution and species diversification. Molecular Ecology; 28: 1203- 1209. pdf

Wellband, K, Mérot, C, Linnansaari, T, Elliott, JAK, Curry, RA, Bernatchez, L. 2019. Chromosomal fusion and life history associated genomic variation contribute to within river local adaptation of Atlantic salmon. Molecular Ecology; 28: 1439- 1459. pdf

Mérot C. , Berdan EL., Babin C., Normandeau E., Wellenreuther M., Bernatchez L. 2018. Intercontinental karyotype-environment parallelism supports a role for a chromosomal inversion in local adaptation in a seaweed fly. Proceedings of the Royal Society B. 285(1881). pdf

Rosser N., Freitas A.V., Huertas B., Joron M., Lamas G., Mérot C., Simpson F., Willmott K.R., Mallet J., Dasmahapatra K.K. 2018. Cryptic speciation associated with geographic and ecological divergence in two co-mimetic Amazonian Heliconius butterflies. Zoological Journal of the Linnean Society. pdf

Mérot C., Salazar. C., Merrill R., Jiggins. C, Joron M. 2017. What shapes the continuum of reproductive isolation? Lessons from Heliconius butterflies. Proceedings of the Royal Society B.85(4): 1056-1069. pdf

Mérot C., Le Poul Y., Théry M., Joron M. 2016. Mimicry refinement: Phenotypic variations tracking the local optimum. Journal of Animal Ecology. 85(4), 1056-1069. pdf

Mérot C., Frérot. B, Leppik E., Joron M. 2015. Beyond magic traits: multimodal mating cues in Heliconius butterflies. Evolution. 69 (11). 2891-2904.

Mérot C., Mavarez J., Evin A., Dasmahapatra K., Mallet J., Lamas G., Joron M. 2013.Genetic differentiation without mimicry shift in a pair of hybridising Heliconius species (Lepidoptera ; Nymphalidae). Biological Journal of the Linnean Society. 109. 830-847. pdf

Mérot C. and R. Collin. 2012. Effects of food availability on sex change in two species of Crepidula (Gastropoda: Calyptraeidae). Marine Ecology Progress Series, 449: 173-181. pdf

Mérot C. and R. Collin. 2012. Effects of stress on sex change in Crepidula cf. marginalis (Gastropoda: Calyptraeidae). Journal of Experimental Marine Biology and Ecology 416-417: 68-71. pdf

Pardo-Diaz, C., Salazar C., Baxter S., Mérot C., Figueiredo-Ready W., Joron M., McMillan O., Jiggins C. 2012. Adaptive Introgression across Species Boundaries in Heliconius Butterflies. PLoS Genet, 8 (6)

Jones R., Le Poul Y., Whibley A., Mérot C., Ffrench-Constant R. Joron M. 2013. Wing shape variation associated with mimicry in butterflies . Evolution. 67. 2323-2334.