Julien Joseph

This study shows that fine-scale recombination patterns are similar between sexes in dogs and barn owls, but male-biased recombination occurs in gene promoters.

The paper analyzes evolutionary rates of 100 meiotic recombination proteins across 400 placental mammals, finding that rapid evolution is driven by reduced purifying selection and linked to chromosome pairing proteins in long-lived species.

This paper introduces P3CA, a probabilistic and phylogenetic PCA method for high-dimensional trait evolution, showing improved accuracy in parameter estimation and missing data reconstruction.

This paper develops a method to infer bird migration from bone isotopes and histology, showing a correlation between δ18Op and migratory behavior in extant birds, with potential applications to fossils.

This study shows that GC-biased gene conversion (gBGC) evolves under weak stabilising selection and can increase population load, suggesting it may have been positively selected in humans.

This study identifies PRDM9's role in driving recombination hotspots in salmonids, showing rapid evolution and conservation of its function across vertebrates.

The paper quantifies Prdm9-independent recombination hotspots in 52 mammals, finding that these hotspots are common and often coexist with Prdm9-directed hotspots.