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I'm a post-doc in evolutionary biology at the University of British Columbia interested in population genetics and evolution.

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University of British Columbia: Vancouver, BC, CA

2018-10 to present | Postdoctoral Research Fellow (Biodiversity Research Centre)
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Tom R. Booker

Education and qualifications (3)

University of Edinburgh: Edinburgh, GB

2014 to 2018 | PhD (Institute of Evolutionary Biology)
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University of Edinburgh: Edinburgh, GB

2013 to 2014 | MSc Evolutionary Genetics (Institute of Evolutionary Biology)
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University of Stirling: Stirling, GB

2009 to 2013 | BSc (Hons) Ecology (School of Biological and Environmental Sciences)
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Works (29)

Polyploids broadly generate novel haplotypes from trans-specific variation in Arabidopsis arenosa and Arabidopsis lyrata

PLOS Genetics
2024-12-23 | Journal article
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pgen.1011521
Contributors: Magdalena Bohutínská; Yalong Guo; Eliška Petříková; Tom R. Booker; Cristina Vives Cobo; Jakub Vlček; Gabriela Šrámková; Alžběta Poupětová; Jakub Hojka; Karol Marhold et al.
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The structure of the environment influences the patterns and genetics of local adaptation

Evolution Letters
2024-12-02 | Journal article
DOI: 10.1093/evlett/qrae033
Contributors: Tom R Booker
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How useful is genomic data for predicting maladaptation to future climate?

Global Change Biology
2024-04 | Journal article
DOI: 10.1111/gcb.17227
Contributors: Brandon M. Lind; Rafael Candido‐Ribeiro; Pooja Singh; Mengmeng Lu; Dragana Obreht Vidakovic; Tom R. Booker; Michael C. Whitlock; Sam Yeaman; Nathalie Isabel; Sally N. Aitken
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The WZA: A window‐based method for characterizing genotype–environment associations

Molecular Ecology Resources
2024-02 | Journal article
DOI: 10.1111/1755-0998.13768
Contributors: Tom R. Booker; Sam Yeaman; James R. Whiting; Michael C. Whitlock
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Spatial autocorrelation of the environment influences the patterns and genetics of local adaptation

2023-05-29 | Preprint
DOI: 10.1101/2023.05.29.542754
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Using genome scans to identify genes used repeatedly for adaptation

Evolution
2023-03-01 | Journal article
DOI: 10.1093/evolut/qpac063
Contributors: Tom R Booker; Sam Yeaman; Michael C Whitlock
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Disentangling the genetic consequences of demographic change

Molecular Ecology
2023-01 | Journal article
DOI: 10.1111/mec.16798
Contributors: Julia M. Kreiner; Tom R. Booker
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Genetic diversity loss in the Anthropocene

Science
2022-09-23 | Journal article
DOI: 10.1126/science.abn5642
Contributors: Moises Exposito-Alonso; Tom R. Booker; Lucas Czech; Lauren Gillespie; Shannon Hateley; Christopher C. Kyriazis; Patricia L. M. Lang; Laura Leventhal; David Nogues-Bravo; Veronica Pagowski et al.
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The immediate costs and long‐term benefits of assisted gene flow in large populations

Conservation Biology
2022-08 | Journal article
DOI: 10.1111/cobi.13911
Contributors: Jared A. Grummer; Tom R. Booker; Remi Matthey‐Doret; Pirmin Nietlisbach; Andréa T. Thomaz; Michael C. Whitlock
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Background selection under evolving recombination rates

Proceedings of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences
2022-06-29 | Journal article
DOI: 10.1098/rspb.2022.0782
Contributors: Tom R. Booker; Bret A. Payseur; Anna Tigano
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Using genome scans to identify genes used repeatedly for adaptation

2022-03-25 | Preprint
DOI: 10.1101/2022.03.24.485690
Contributors: Tom R. Booker; Sam Yeaman; Michael C. Whitlock
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Haploid, diploid, and pooled exome capture recapitulate features of biology and paralogy in two non‐model tree species

Molecular Ecology Resources
2022-01 | Journal article
DOI: 10.1111/1755-0998.13474
Contributors: Brandon M. Lind; Mengmeng Lu; Dragana Obreht Vidakovic; Pooja Singh; Tom R. Booker; Sally N. Aitken; Sam Yeaman
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Background selection under evolving recombination rates

2021-12-21 | Preprint
DOI: 10.1101/2021.12.20.473549
Contributors: Tom R. Booker; Bret A. Payseur; Anna Tigano
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The WZA: A window-based method for characterizing genotype-environment association

2021-08-07 | Other
DOI: 10.22541/au.162836421.16815307/v1
Contributors: Tom Booker; Sam Yeaman; Michael Whitlock
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The WZA: A window-based method for characterizing genotype-environment association

2021-06-26 | Other
DOI: 10.1101/2021.06.25.449972
Contributors: Tom R. Booker; Sam Yeaman; Michael C. Whitlock
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Selective sweeps influence diversity over large regions of the mouse genome

2021-06-10 | Other
DOI: 10.1101/2021.06.10.447924
Contributors: Tom R. Booker; Benjamin C. Jackson; Rory J. Craig; Brian Charlesworth; Peter D. Keightley
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Global adaptation complicates the interpretation of genome scans for local adaptation

Evolution Letters
2021-02-01 | Journal article
DOI: 10.1002/evl3.208
Contributors: Tom R. Booker; Sam Yeaman; Michael C. Whitlock
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Using genetic relatedness to understand heterogeneous distributions of urban rat‐associated pathogens

Evolutionary Applications
2021-01 | Journal article
DOI: 10.1111/eva.13049
Contributors: Kaylee A. Byers; Tom R. Booker; Matthew Combs; Chelsea G. Himsworth; Jason Munshi‐South; David M. Patrick; Michael C. Whitlock
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Variation in recombination rate affects detection of outliers in genome scans under neutrality

Molecular Ecology
2020-11 | Journal article
DOI: 10.1111/mec.15501
Contributors: Tom R. Booker; Sam Yeaman; Michael C. Whitlock
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Haploid, diploid, and pooled exome capture recapitulate features of biology and paralogy in two non-model tree species

2020-10-08 | Preprint
DOI: 10.1101/2020.10.07.329961
Contributors: Brandon Lind; Mengmeng Lu; Dragana Obreht Vidakovic; Pooja Singh; Tom Booker; Sam Yeaman; Sally Aitken
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Inferring Parameters of the Distribution of Fitness Effects of New Mutations When Beneficial Mutations Are Strongly Advantageous and Rare

G3: Genes|Genomes|Genetics
2020-07 | Journal article
DOI: 10.1534/g3.120.401052
Contributors: Tom R. Booker
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Variation in recombination rate affects detection of outliers in genome scans under neutrality

2020-02-07 | Preprint
DOI: 10.1101/2020.02.06.937813
Contributors: Tom R. Booker; Sam Yeaman; Michael C. Whitlock
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Inferring parameters of the distribution of fitness effects of new mutations when beneficial mutations are strongly advantageous and rare

2019-11-26 | Other
DOI: 10.1101/855411
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Global adaptation confounds the search for local adaptation

2019-08-21 | Other
DOI: 10.1101/742247
Contributors: Tom R. Booker; Sam Yeaman; Michael C. Whitlock
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Understanding the factors that shape patterns of nucleotide diversity in the house mouse genome

2018-03-02 | Other
DOI: 10.1101/275610
Contributors: Tom R. Booker; Peter D. Keightley
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Detecting positive selection in the genome

BMC Biology
2017-10 | Journal article
DOI: 10.1186/s12915-017-0434-y
Part of ISSN: 1741-7007
Contributors: Tom R. Booker; Benjamin C. Jackson; Peter D. Keightley
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The recombination landscape in wild house mice inferred using population genomic data

2017-02 | Other
DOI: 10.1101/112094
Contributors: Tom R Booker; Rob W Ness; Peter D. Keightley
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Inferring the Frequency Spectrum of Derived Variants to Quantify Adaptive Molecular Evolution in Protein-Coding Genes of Drosophila melanogaster

Genetics
2016-04 | Journal article
DOI: 10.1534/genetics.116.188102
Part of ISSN: 0016-6731
Contributors: Peter D. Keightley; José L. Campos; Tom R. Booker; Brian Charlesworth
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Molecular Evolution: Breakthroughs and Mysteries in Batesian Mimicry

Current Biology
2015-06 | Journal article
DOI: 10.1016/j.cub.2015.04.024
Part of ISSN: 0960-9822
Contributors: Tom Booker; Rob W. Ness; Deborah Charlesworth
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Peer review (5 reviews for 4 publications/grants)

Review activity for Advances in bamboo science. (1)
Review activity for BMC biology. (1)
Review activity for Frontiers in zoology. (2)
Review activity for PLOS genetics. (1)
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