Bret Payseur

Position title: Professor

Phone: 608-890-0867

Address:
Genetics and Medical Genetics
Speciation, Evolution of Extreme Phenotypes, Recombination

Address: 2428 Genetics/Biotech
Education: Ph.D., University of Arizona, (2003), Postdoctoral Research: Cornell University
Lab Website: http://payseur.genetics.wisc.edu/
Department: Genetics and Medical Genetics
Research Interests: Evolution of extreme phenotypes, genetic recombination, speciation, population genomics
Research Fields: Evolutionary Biology, Population Genetics, Quantitative Genetics, Genomics

Research Description:
Bret Payseur uses genetics and genomics to understand mechanisms of evolution. Payseur and his students are discovering how one species becomes two, how organisms adapt to new environments, and how meiotic recombination evolves – all from a genetic perspective. Payseur’s research focuses on natural variation in a powerful genetic model organism, the house mouse.

Representative Publications:
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Payseur, B. A., and P. Jing (2021). Genomic targets of positive selection in giant mice from Gough Island. Molecular Biology and Evolution 38:911-926.

Blanckaert, A., and B. A. Payseur (2021). Finding hybrid incompatibilities using genome sequences from hybrid populations. Molecular Biology and Evolution 38:4616-4627.

Peterson, A. L., and B. A. Payseur (2021). Sex-specific variation in the genome-wide recombination rate. Genetics 217: doi.org/10.1093/genetics/iyaa019.

Stratton, J. D., M. J. Nolte, and B. A. Payseur (2021). Evolution of boldness and exploratory behavior in giant mice from Gough Island. Behavioral Ecology and Sociobiology 75:1-11.

Nolte, M. J., P. Jing, C. N. Dewey, and B. A. Payseur (2020). Giant island mice exhibit widespread gene expression changes in key metabolic organs. Genome Biology and Evolution 12:1277-1301.

Wang, R. J., B. L. Dumont, P. Jing, and B. A. Payseur (2019). A first genetic portrait of synaptonemal complex variation. PLoS Genetics 15:e1008337.