Hernan Eduardo Morales Villegas

Hernan Eduardo Morales Villegas

Associate Professor


  1. 2024
  2. Published

    The impact of habitat loss and population fragmentation on genomic erosion

    Pinto, A. V., Hansson, B., Patramanis, Ioannis, Morales Villegas, Hernan Eduardo & van Oosterhout, C., 2024, In: Conservation Genetics. 25, 1, p. 49-57 9 p.

    Research output: Contribution to journalJournal articleResearchpeer-review

  3. 2023
  4. Published

    Integrating Pool-seq uncertainties into demographic inference

    Carvalho, J., Morales Villegas, Hernan Eduardo, Faria, R., Butlin, R. K. & Sousa, V. C., 2023, In: Molecular Ecology Resources. 23, 7, p. 1737-1755 19 p.

    Research output: Contribution to journalJournal articleResearchpeer-review

  5. Published

    Phylogenomics and biogeography of arid-adapted Chlamydogobius goby fishes

    Mossop, K. D., Lemmon, A. R., Moriarty Lemmon, E., Eytan, R., Adams, M., Unmack, P. J., Smith Date, K., Morales Villegas, Hernan Eduardo, Hammer, M. P., Wong, B. B. M. & Chapple, D. G., 2023, In: Molecular Phylogenetics and Evolution. 182, 13 p., 107757.

    Research output: Contribution to journalJournal articleResearchpeer-review

  6. Published

    Purging and accumulation of genetic load in conservation

    Dussex, N., Morales Villegas, Hernan Eduardo, Grossen, C., Dalén, L. & van Oosterhout, C., 2023, In: Trends in Ecology and Evolution. 38, 10, p. 961-969 9 p.

    Research output: Contribution to journalJournal articleResearchpeer-review

  7. Published

    Real-time genomics for One Health

    Urban, L., Perlas, A., Francino, O., Martí-Carreras, J., Muga, B. A., Mwangi, J. W., Boykin Okalebo, L., Stanton, J-A. L., Black, A., Waipara, N., Fontsere, C., Eccles, D., Urel, H., Reska, T., Morales, H. E., Palmada-Flores, M., Marques-Bonet, T., Watsa, M., Libke, Z., Erkenswick, G. & 1 others, van Oosterhout, C., 2023, In: Molecular Systems Biology. 19, 8, 12 p., e11686.

    Research output: Contribution to journalReviewResearchpeer-review

  8. 2022
  9. Published

    Chromosome-length genome assembly and linkage map of a critically endangered Australian bird: the helmeted honeyeater

    Robledo-Ruiz, D. A., Gan, H. M., Kaur, P., Dudchenko, O., Weisz, D., Khan, R., Lieberman Aiden, E., Osipova, E., Hiller, M., Morales Villegas, Hernan Eduardo, Magrath, M. J. L., Clarke, R. H., Sunnucks, P. & Pavlova, A., 2022, In: GigaScience. 11, 13 p., giac025.

    Research output: Contribution to journalJournal articleResearchpeer-review

  10. Published

    Genetic load: genomic estimates and applications in non-model animals

    Bertorelle, G., Raffini, F., Bosse, M., Bortoluzzi, C., Iannucci, A., Trucchi, E., Morales Villegas, Hernan Eduardo & van Oosterhout, C., 2022, In: Nature Reviews Genetics. p. 492–503 12 p.

    Research output: Contribution to journalReviewResearchpeer-review

  11. Published

    Genetic load and adaptive potential of a recovered avian species that narrowly avoided extinction

    Femerling Romero, Maria Georgette, Oosterhout, C. V., Feng, S., Bristol, R. M., KU, thw266, Groombridge, J., Gilbert, M Thomas P & Morales Villegas, Hernan Eduardo, 2022, bioRxiv, 23 p.

    Research output: Working paperPreprintResearch

  12. Published

    Genomic erosion in a demographically recovered bird species during conservation rescue

    Jackson, H. A., Percival-Alwyn, L., Ryan, C., Albeshr, M. F., Venturi, L., Morales, H. E., Mathers, T. C., Cocker, J., Speak, S. A., Accinelli, G. G., Barker, T., Heavens, D., Willman, F., Dawson, D., Ward, L., Tatayah, V., Zuël, N., Young, R., Concannon, L., Whitford, H. & 12 others, Clavijo, B., Bunbury, N., Tyler, K. M., Ruhomaun, K., Grace, M. K., Bruford, M. W., Jones, C. G., Tollington, S., Bell, D. J., Groombridge, J. J., Clark, M. & Van Oosterhout, C., 2022, In: Conservation Biology. 36, 4, 13 p., e13918.

    Research output: Contribution to journalJournal articleResearchpeer-review

  13. 2021
  14. Published

    Comment on “Individual heterozygosity predicts translocation success in threatened desert tortoises”

    Hansson, B., Morales Villegas, Hernan Eduardo & van Oosterhout, C., 2021, In: Science. 372, 6546, 5 p., eabh1105.

    Research output: Contribution to journalComment/debateResearchpeer-review

  15. Published

    Genetic variation for adaptive traits is associated with polymorphic inversions in Littorina saxatilis

    Koch, E. L., Morales Villegas, Hernan Eduardo, Larsson, J., Westram, A. M., Faria, R., Lemmon, A. R., Lemmon, E. M., Johannesson, K. & Butlin, R. K., 2021, In: Evolution Letters. 5, 3, p. 196-213

    Research output: Contribution to journalJournal articleResearchpeer-review

  16. Published

    Population genomics of the critically endangered kākāpō

    Dussex, N., van der Valk, T., Morales, H. E., Wheat, C. W., Díez-del-Molino, D., von Seth, J., Foster, Y., Kutschera, V. E., Guschanski, K., Rhie, A., Phillippy, A. M., Korlach, J., Howe, K., Chow, W., Pelan, S., Mendes Damas, J. D., Lewin, H. A., Hastie, A. R., Formenti, G., Fedrigo, O. & 20 others, Guhlin, J., Harrop, T. W. R., Le Lec, M. F., Dearden, P. K., Haggerty, L., Martin, F. J., Kodali, V., Thibaud-Nissen, F., Iorns, D., Knapp, M., Gemmell, N. J., Robertson, F., Moorhouse, R., Digby, A., Eason, D., Vercoe, D., Howard, J., Jarvis, E. D., Robertson, B. C. & Dalén, L., 2021, In: Cell Genomics. 1, 1, 20 p., 100002.

    Research output: Contribution to journalJournal articleResearchpeer-review

  17. 2019
  18. Genomic evidence of neo-sex chromosomes in the eastern yellow robin

    Gan, H. M., Falk, S., Morales Villegas, Hernan Eduardo, Austin, C. M., Sunnucks, P. & Pavlova, A., 1 Sep 2019, In: GigaScience. 8, 9

    Research output: Contribution to journalJournal articleResearchpeer-review

  19. Genomic architecture of parallel ecological divergence: Beyond a single environmental contrast

    Morales Villegas, Hernan Eduardo, Faria, R., Johannesson, K., Larsson, T., Panova, M., Westram, A. M. & Butlin, R. K., 2019, In: Science Advances.

    Research output: Contribution to journalJournal articleResearchpeer-review

  20. 2018
  21. Multiple chromosomal rearrangements in a hybrid zone between Littorina saxatilis ecotypes

    Faria, R., Chaube, P., Morales Villegas, Hernan Eduardo, Larsson, T., Lemmon, A. R., Lemmon, E. M., Rafajlović, M., Panova, M., Ravinet, M., Johannesson, K., Westram, A. M. & Butlin, R. K., 1 Dec 2018, In: Molecular Ecology.

    Research output: Contribution to journalJournal articleResearchpeer-review

  22. Concordant divergence of mitogenomes and a mitonuclear gene cluster in bird lineages inhabiting different climates

    Morales Villegas, Hernan Eduardo, Pavlova, A., Amos, N., Major, R., Kilian, A., Greening, C. & Sunnucks, P., 2018, In: Nature Ecology & Evolution. 2, 8, p. 1258-1267 10 p.

    Research output: Contribution to journalJournal articleResearchpeer-review

  23. 2017
  24. Integrative Approaches for Studying Mitochondrial and Nuclear Genome Co-evolution in Oxidative Phosphorylation

    Sunnucks, P., Morales Villegas, Hernan Eduardo, Lamb, A. M., Pavlova, A. & Greening, C., 2017, In: Frontiers in Genetics. 8, p. 25

    Research output: Contribution to journalJournal articleResearchpeer-review

  25. Perpendicular axes of differentiation generated by mitochondrial introgression

    Morales Villegas, Hernan Eduardo, Sunnucks, P., Joseph, L. & Pavlova, A., 2017, In: Molecular Ecology.

    Research output: Contribution to journalJournal articleResearchpeer-review

  26. Population mitogenomics provides insights into evolutionary history, source of invasions and diversifying selection in the House Crow (Corvus splendens)

    Krzemińska, U., Morales Villegas, Hernan Eduardo, Greening, C., Nyári, Á. S., Wilson, R., Song, B. K., Austin, C. M., Sunnucks, P., Pavlova, A. & Rahman, S., 2017, In: Heredity. 120, 4, p. 296-309 14 p.

    Research output: Contribution to journalJournal articleResearchpeer-review

  27. 2016
  28. Neutral and selective drivers of colour evolution in a widespread Australian passerine

    Morales Villegas, Hernan Eduardo, Pavlova, A., Sunnucks, P., Major, R., Amos, N., Joseph, L., Wang, B., Lemmon, A. R., Endler, J. A. & Delhey, K., 1 Dec 2016, In: Journal of Biogeography. 44, 3, p. 522-536 15 p.

    Research output: Contribution to journalJournal articleResearchpeer-review

  29. Patterns of diversification in islands: A comparative study across three gecko genera in the Socotra Archipelago

    Garcia-Porta, J., Morales Villegas, Hernan Eduardo, Gómez-Díaz, E., Sindaco, R. & Carranza, S., 1 May 2016, In: Molecular Phylogenetics and Evolution. 98, p. 288-299 12 p.

    Research output: Contribution to journalJournal articleResearchpeer-review

  30. 2015
  31. Positive and purifying selection in mitochondrial genomes of a bird with mitonuclear discordance

    Morales Villegas, Hernan Eduardo, Pavlova, A., Joseph, L. & Sunnucks, P., 1 May 2015, In: Molecular Ecology. 24, 11, p. 2820-2837 18 p.

    Research output: Contribution to journalJournal articleResearchpeer-review

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