Alejandro Damian-Serrano
Yale University
22 Papers
3 Citations
Alejandro Damian-Serrano is an academic researcher from Yale University. The author has contributed to research in topics: Biology & Phylogenetic tree. The author has an hindex of 3, co-authored 12 publications. Previous affiliations of Alejandro Damian-Serrano include Brown University.
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Papers
The evolution of siphonophore tentilla for specialized prey capture in the open ocean.
TL;DR: This article studied how siphonophore specialists and generalists evolve, and what morphological changes are associated with these transitions, and they found that the morphological change is localized in separate structures dedicated to prey capture, and that shifts between prey types are linked to shifts in the morphology, mode of evolution, and evolutionary correlations of tentilla and their nematocysts.
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Evolutionary causes and consequences of ungulate migration
TL;DR: It is found that current migratory ungulates are larger, more grass-dependent and live at higher latitudes on average than non-migrants, and that migration probably emerged after the rise of C4 grasslands and increased seasonality towards the poles.
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Evolutionary causes and consequences of ungulate migration
TL;DR: It is found that current migratory ungulates are larger, more grass-dependent and live at higher latitudes on average than non-migrants, and that migration probably emerged after the rise of C 4 grasslands and increased seasonality towards the poles.
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Ecological Load and Balancing Selection in Circumboreal Barnacles.
Joaquin C. B. Nunez,Stephen Rong,Alejandro Damian-Serrano,John T. Burley,Rebecca Elyanow,David A. Ferranti,Kimberly B. Neil,Henrik Glenner,Magnus Alm Rosenblad,Anders Blomberg,Kerstin Johannesson,David M. Rand +11 more
TL;DR: It is shown that 4% of genes in the barnacle genome experience balancing selection across the entire range of the species, suggesting that balancing selection is strong enough to maintain functional variation for millions of years in the face of complex demography.
From tides to nucleotides: Genomic signatures of adaptation to environmental heterogeneity in barnacles.
Joaquin C. B. Nunez,Stephen Rong,David A. Ferranti,Alejandro Damian-Serrano,Kimberly B. Neil,Henrik Glenner,Henrik Glenner,Rebecca Elyanow,Bianca R. P. Brown,Magnus Alm Rosenblad,Anders Blomberg,Kerstin Johannesson,David M. Rand +12 more
TL;DR: The hypothesis that spatially heterogeneous selection is a general and repeatable feature for this species, and that natural selection can maintain functional genetic variation in heterogeneous environments is supported.
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