Claire Mérot

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Martín-Huete M, García-Berro A, Mérot C, Pérez-Portela R, Leiva C. 2026. Hidden genomic structure and widespread structural polymorphism across environmental gradients in the spiny sea star Marthasterias glacialis. Proc. R. Soc. B 1 August 2026; 293 (2077): 20260791. https://doi.org/10.1098/rspb.2026.0791

Stuart K, Oomen R, Wellenreuther M, Wold J, Tigano A, Field DL, Mérot C . 2026. A Beginner's Guide to Structural Variants in Eco-Evolutionary Population Genomics. Mol Ecol. 35(2):e70216. https://doi.org/10.1111/mec.70216

Nicolas LA, Berdan EL, Wellenreuther M, Colinet H, Clouard A, De Wit P, Glemin S, Mérot C. 2026. Parallel clines of chromosomal inversion frequencies in seaweed flies are associated with thermal variation. Heredity. 135,162-173 https://doi.org/10.1038/s41437-025-00808-3

Brazier T, Mérot C . 2025. Genomic architecture of rapid adaptation illustrated by biological invasions. Nature Ecology Evolution 9, 1317-1318. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41559-025-02774-9

Dallaire X, Normandeau E, Brazier T, Harris L, Hansen MM, Mérot C , Moore, J-S. 2025. Leveraging whole genomes, mitochondrial DNA and haploblocks to decipher complex demographic histories: an example from a broadly admixed arctic fish. Molecular Ecology, 34: e17772. https://doi.org/10.1111/mec.17772

Lecomte L, Ferchaud AL, Normandeau E, Mérot C, Langlois-Parisé I, Therrien JC, Bérubé P, Djambazian H, Nawarathna PM, Fraser D, Ragoussis J, Bernatchez L. 2024. Chromosome-level genome assembly of a doubled haploid brook trout (Salvelinus fontinalis).G3 Genes|Genomes|Genetics, Volume 15, Issue 6, June 2025, jkaf066, https://doi.org/10.1093/g3journal/jkaf066

Lecomte L, Árnyasi M, Ferchaud AL, Kent M, Lien S, Stenlřkk K, Sylvestre F, Bernatchez L, Mérot C. 2024. Investigating structural variant, indel and single nucleotide polymorphism differentiation between locally adapted Atlantic salmon populations. Evolutionary Applications, 17(3), e13653.https://doi.org/10.1111/eva.13653

Berdan E, Aubier TG, Cozzolino S, Faria R, Feder JL, Giménez MD, Joron M, Searle JB & Mérot C. 2024. Structural variants and speciation: Multiple processes at play. In CL Peichel, R Safran, Ĺ Brännström, D Bolnick & U Dieckmann, Perspectives on Speciation, Cold Spring Harbor Perspectives in Biology 16 (3). HAL version

Butlin R, Mérot C, Wellcome Sanger Institute Tree of Life Management, Samples and Laboratory team, Wellcome Sanger Institute Scientific Operations: Sequencing Operations, Wellcome Sanger Institute Tree of Life Core Informatics team, Tree of Life Core Informatics collective, & Darwin Tree of Life Consortium. 2024. The genome sequence of a kelp fly, Coelopa pilipes Haliday, 1838. Wellcome Open Research, 9, 197. https://doi.org/10.12688/wellcomeopenres.21222.1

Venney C, Mérot C, Normandeau E, Rougeux C, Laporte M, Bernatchez L. 2024. Epigenetic and Genetic Differentiation Between Coregonus Species Pairs. Genome Biology and Evolution, Volume 16, Issue 2,evae013, https://doi.org/10.1093/gbe/evae013

Dallaire X, Bouchard, R, Hénault P, Diaz GU, Normandeau E, Mérot C, Bernatchez L, Moore JS. 2023. Widespread deviant patterns of heterozygosity in whole-genome sequencing due to autopolyploidy, repeated elements, and duplication. Genome Biology and Evolution, 2023; 15(12) evad229, https://doi.org/10.1093/gbe/evad229

Berdan EL, Barton NH, Butlin R, Charlesworth B, Faria R, Fragata I, Gilbert KJ, Jay P, Kapun M, Lotterhos KE, Mérot C, Durmaz Mitchell E, Pascual M, Peichel CL, Rafajlovic M, Westram AM, Schaeffer SW, Johannesson K & Flatt T. 2023. How chromosomal inversions reorient the evolutionary process. Journal of Evolutionary Biology, 36, 1761-1782. https://doi.org/10.1111/jeb.14242

Enge S, Mérot C, Mozuraitis R, Apsegaite V, Bernatchez L, Martens GA, Radziute S, Pavia H, Berdan EL. 2023. A supergene in seaweed flies modulates male traits and female perception. Proceedings of the Royal Society B, 290(2008):20231494 https://doi.org/10.1098/rspb.2023.1494

Mérot C., Stenlřkk KSR, Venney C, Laporte M, Moser M, Normandeau E, Árnyasi M, Kent M, Rougeux C, Flynn JM, Lien S, & Bernatchez L. 2023. Genome assembly, structural variants, and genetic differentiation between lake whitefish young species pairs (Coregonus sp.) with long and short reads. Molecular Ecology, 32, 1458-1477. https://doi.org/10.1111/mec.16468

Sylvestre F, Mérot C , Normandeau E, Bernatchez L. 2023 Searching for intra-locus sexual conflicts in the three-spined stickleback (Gasterosteus aculeatus) genome. Evolution, 29;77(7):1667-1681 https://doi.org/10.1093/evolut/qpad075

Venney C, Cayuela H, Rougeux C, Laporte M, Mérot C, Normandeau E, Leitwein M, Dorant Y, Prćbel K, Kenchington E, Clément M, Sirois P, Bernatchez L. 2023 Genome-wide DNA methylation predicts environmentally driven life history variation in a marine fish. Evolution, 77(1), 186-198. https://doi.org/10.1093/evolut/qpac028

Mérot, C., Stenlřkk, 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.