2024

Lucek K, Flury JM, Willi Y (2024) Genomic implications of the repeated shift to selffertilization across a species’ geographic distribution. J of Heredity esae046:1-11, doi.org/10.1093/jhered/esae046

Sánchez-Castro D, Patsiou TS, Perrier A, Schepers J, Willi Y (2024) Uncovering the cause of breakup between species' range limits and niche limits under climate warming. J Biogeography 51:1018.1031, doi.org/10.1111/jbi.14796

Schepers J, Heblack J, Willi Y (2024) Negative interaction effect of heat and drought stress at the warm end of species distribution. Oecologia 204:173-185, doi.org/10.1007/s00442-023-05497-5

Whiting JR, Booker TR, Rougeux C,...Willi Y,.. et al. (2024)The genetic architecture of repeated local adaptation to climate in distantly related plants. Nat Ecol Evol 8:1933-1947;  doi.org/10.1038/s41559-024-02514-5

2023

Bouaouina S, Chittaro Y, Willi Y, Lucek K (2023) Asynchronous life cycles contribute to reproductive isolation between two Alpine butterflies. Evolution Letters 7:436-446, doi.org/10.1093/evlett/qrad046

Perrier A, Willi Y (2023) Intraspecific variation in reproductive barriers between two closely related Arabidopsis sister species. Journal of Evolutionary Biology 36:121-130, doi.org/10.1111/jeb.14122

2022

Armbruster GFJ, Lucek K, Willi Y (2022) Cryptic population structure at the northern range margin of the service tree Sorbus domestica. PeerJ, 10:e14397, doi.org/10.7717/peerj.14397

Maccagni A, Willi Y (2022) Niche breadth and elevational range size: a comparative study on Middle-European Brassicaceae species. Phil Trans Royal Society B 377: 20210005, doi.org/10.1098/rstb.2021.0005

Maccagni A, Willi Y (2022) Trait divergence and trade-offs among Brassicaceae species differing in elevational distribution. Evolution 76:1986-2003, doi.org/10.1111/evo.14554

Perrier A, Sánchez-Castro D, Willi Y (2022) Environment dependence of the expression of mutational load and species’ range limits. Journal of Evolutionary Biology (in press), doi/full/10.1111/jeb.13997

Perrier A, Willi Y (2022) Intraspecific variation in reproductive barriers between two closely related Arabidopsis sister species. Journal of Evolutionary Biology, doi/10.1111/jeb.14122

Sánchez-Castro D, Armbruster G, Willi Y (2022) Reduced pollinator service in small populations of Arabidopsis lyrata at its southern range limit. Oecologia, doi.org/10.1007/s00442-022-05237-1, data of the study are available at doi.org/10.5061/dryad.pnvx0k6pp

Sánchez-Castro D, Perrier A,  Willi Y (2022) Reduced climate adaptation at range edges in North American Arabidopsis lyrata. Global Ecology and Biogeography 2022;00:1–12, doi.org/10.1111/geb.13483

Willi Y, Kristensen TN, Weeks AR, Ørsted M, Sgrò CM, Hoffmann AA (2022) Conservation genetics as a management tool: the five best-supported paradigms to assist the management of threatened species. Proc of the Nat Academy of Sciences USA 119: e2105076119, doi.org/10.1073/pnas.2105076119

Willi Y, Lucek K, Bachmann O, Walden N (2022) Recent speciation associated with range expansion and a shift to self-fertilization in North American Arabidopsis. Nature Communications 13:7564, doi.org/10.1038/s41467-022-35368-1

Willi Y, Van Buskirk J (2022) A review on trade-offs at the warm and cold ends of geographical distributions. Phil Trans Royal Society B 377:20210022, doi.org/10.1098/rstb.2021.0022

2021

Lucek K, Willi Y (2021) Drivers of linkage disequilibrium across a species’ geographic range. PloS Genetics 17:e2105076119, doi.org/10.1371/journal.pgen.1009477

Patsiou T, Walden N, Willi Y (2021) What drives species distribution along elevational gradients? Macroecological and -evolutionary insights from Brassicaceae species of the central Alps. Global Ecology and Biogeography 30:1030-1042, doi.org/10.1111/geb.13280

2020

Perrier A, Sánchez-Castro D, Willi Y (2020) Expressed mutational load increases toward the edge of a species’ geographic range. Evolution 74:1711-1723, doi.org/10.1111/evo.14042

Walden N, Lucek K, Willi Y (2020) Lineage-specific adaptation to climate involves flowering time in North American Arabidopsis lyrata. Molecular Ecology 29: 1436-1451, doi.org/10.1111/mec.15338

Willi Y, Fracassetti M, Bachmann O, Van Buskirk J (2020) Demographic processes linked to genetic diversity and positive selection across a species' range. Plant Communications 1, e100111, doi.org/10.1016/j.xplc.2020.100111

2019

Lucek K, Galli A, Gurten S, Hohmann N, Maccagni A, Patsiou T, Willi Y (2019) Metabarcoding of honey to assess differences in plantpollinator interactions between urban and non-urban sites. Apidologie 50:317-329, doi.org/10.1007/s13592-019-00646-3

Lucek K, Hohmann N, Willi Y (2019) Postglacial ecotype formation under outcrossing and self‐fertilization in Arabidopsis lyrata. Molecular Ecology 28:1043-1055, doi.org/10.1111/mec.15035

Willi Y, Van Buskirk J (2019) A practical guide to the study of distribution limits. American Naturalist 193:773-785, doi.org/10.1086/703172

Willi Y (2019) The relevance of mutation load for species range limits. American Journal of Botany 106:757-759, doi.org/10.1002/ajb2.1296

2018

Bonchev G, Willi Y (2018) Accumulation of transposable elements in selfing populations of Arabidopsis lyrata supports the ectopic recombination model of transposon evolution. New Phytologist 219:767-778, doi: 10.1111/nph.15201

Willi Y, Fracassetti M, Zoller S, Van Buskirk J (2018) Accumulation of mutational load at the edges of a species range. Molecular Biology and Evolution 35:781-791, doi:10.1093/molbev/msy003

Wos G, Willi Y (2018) Genetic differentiation in life history traits and thermal stress performance across a heterogeneous dune landscape in Arabidopsis lyrata. Annals of Botany 122:473-484, doi:10.1093/aob/mcy090

Wos G, Willi Y (2018) Thermal acclimation in Arabidopsis lyrata: genotypic costs and transcriptional changes. Journal of Evolutionary Biology 31: 123-135, doi: 10.1111/jeb.13208

2017

Lee-Yaw JA, Fracassetti M, Willi Y (2017) Environmental marginality and geographic range limits: A case study with Arabidopsis lyrata ssp. lyrata. Ecography, doi:10.1111/ecog.02869

2016

Paccard A, Van Buskirk J, Willi Y (2016) Quantitative genetic architecture at latitudinal range boundaries: reduced variation but higher trait independence. The American Naturalist 187:667-677,  doi.org/10.1086/685643

2015

Fracassetti M, Griffin PC, Willi Y (2015) Validation of pooled whole-genome re-sequencing in Arabidopsis lyrata. PLoS ONE 10, e0140462

Wos G, Willi Y (2015) Temperature-stress resistance and tolerance along a latitudinal cline in North American Arabidopsis lyrata. PLoS ONE 10, e0131808

2014

Griffin PC, Willi Y (2014) Evolutionary shifts to self-fertilization restricted to geographic range margins in North American Arabidopsis lyrata. Ecology Letters 17:484–490

Paccard A, Fruleux A, Willi Y (2014) Latitudinal trait variation and responses to drought in Arabidopsis lyrata. Oecologia 175:577–587

Stefansson TS, McDonald BA, Willi Y (2014) The influence of genetic drift and selection on quantitative traits in a plant pathogenic fungus. PLoS ONE 9, e112523

Stefansson TS, Willi Y, Croll D, McDonald BA (2014) An assay for quantitative virulence in Rhynchosporium commune reveals an association between effector genotype and virulence. Plant Pathology 63:405-414

2013

Paccard A, Vance M, Willi Y (2013) Weak impact of fine-scale landscape heterogeneity on evolutionary potential in Arabidopsis lyrata. Journal of Evolutionary Biology 26:2331-2340

Willi Y, Griffin P, Van Buskirk J (2013) Drift load in populations of small size and low density. Heredity 110:296–302

Willi, Y (2013) Mutational meltdown in selfing Arabidopsis lyrata. Evolution 67:806-815

Willi, Y (2013) The battle of the sexes over seed size: support for both kinship genomic imprinting and interlocus contest evolution. American Naturalist 181:787-798

2012

Blanckenhorn WU, Briegel U, Choffat Y, Demont M, Gautier R, Pemberton KL, Roschitzki-Voser H, Willi Y, Ward PI (2012) Temperature-mediated microhabitat choice and development time based on the pgm locus in the yellow dung fly Scathophaga stercoraria. Biological Journal of the Linnean Society 107:686-696

Willi Y, Hoffmann AA (2012) Microgeographic adaptation linked to forest fragmentation and habitat quality in the tropical fruit fly Drosophila birchii. Oikos 121:1627–1637

2011

Willi Y, Frank A, Heinzelmann R, Kälin A, Spalinger R, Ceresini PC (2011) The adaptive potential of a plant pathogenic fungus, Rhizoctonia solani AG-3, under heat and fungicide stress. Genetica 139:903-908

Willi Y, Määttänen K (2011) The relative importance of factors determining genetic drift: mating system, spatial genetic structure, habitat, and census size in Arabidopsis lyrata. New Phytologist 189:1200-1209

2010

Willi Y, Follador R, Keller N, Schwander Y, McDonald B (2010) Heritability under benign and stressful conditions in the plant pathogenic fungus Mycosphaerella graminicola. Evolutionary Ecology Research 12:761-768

Willi Y, Määttänen K (2010) Evolutionary dynamics of mating system shifts in Arabidopsis lyrata. Journal of Evolutionary Biology 23:2123-2131

2008

Hoffmann, AA, Willi Y (2008) Detecting genetic responses to environmental change. Nature Reviews Genetics 9:421-432

2006

Willi Y, Van Buskirk J, Hoffmann, AA (2006) Evolutionary potential of small populations. Annual Review of Ecology, Evolution and Systematics 37:433-4