Bret Payseur
Position title: Professor
Email: payseur@wisc.edu
Website: Bret Payseur's website
Phone: 608-890-0867
Address:
Genetics and Medical Genetics
Evolution of Extreme Phenotypes, Recombination, Speciation
- 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 organisms adapt to new environments, how meiotic recombination evolves, and how one species becomes two – 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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Nolte, M. J., and B. A. Payseur (2025). Phenotypic and developmental dissection of an instance of the island rule. Evolution 79:1199-1215.
Howell, E. K., F. Baier, H. E. Hoekstra, and B. A. Payseur (2025). The genomic imprint of chromosomal inversions and demographic history in island populations of deer mice. Molecular Biology and Evolution 42:msaf254.
Spurley, W. J., and B. A. Payseur (2025). The breeding sex ratio interacts with demographic history to shape comparative patterns of variation on the X chromosome and the autosomes. Genome Biology and Evolution 17:evaf035.
Haasl, R. J., and B. A. Payseur (2024). Fitness landscapes of human microsatellites. PLoS Genetics 20:e1011524.
Frayer, M. E., and B. A. Payseur (2024). Do genetic loci that cause reproductive isolation in the lab inhibit gene flow in nature? Evolution 78:1025-1038.
Stratton, J. D., M. J. Nolte, and B. A. Payseur (2023). Genetics of behavioural evolution in giant mice from Gough Island. Proceedings of the Royal Society B 290:20222603.
Payseur, B. A., S. Anderson, R. T. James II, M. D. Parmenter, M. M. Gray, and C. J. Vinyard (2023). Genetics of evolved load resistance in the skeletons of unusually large mice from Gough Island. Genetics 225:iyad137.
Peterson, A. L., and B. A. Payseur (2021). Sex-specific variation in the genome-wide recombination rate. Genetics 217:iyaa019.
Blanckaert, A., and B. A. Payseur (2021). Finding hybrid incompatibilities using genome sequences from hybrid populations. Molecular Biology and Evolution 38:4616-4627.