Benoît Nabholz

The paper examines how bioclimatic variables affect purifying selection on mitochondrial DNA in Piciformes birds, finding a negative correlation between temperature range and substitution rates.

The paper identifies barrier loci in Zosterops species by analyzing genomic differentiation across divergence stages, showing Z chromosome involvement and roles of natural and sexual selection in reproductive isolation.

The paper examines the relationship between effective population size and genome size variation in animals, finding no evidence that genetic drift drives TE accumulation across species.

This study uses whole-genome sequencing to analyze demographic responses of island birds to local and regional ecological disruptions, finding synchronous population size reductions during the Last Glacial Maximum in Reunion species.