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.