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Arnar Pálsson - Professor

Arnar Pálsson

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School of Engineering and Natural Sciences

Arnar PálssonHann/Hans

Professor

Professor in bioinformatics

Location
Askja / N-241
Phone
525 - 4265
Email
apalsson [at] hi.is

Unit
Faculty of Life and Environmental Sciences
Website
http://uni.hi.is/apalsson

Courses 2024 - 2025

Published works

2024

DNA methylation reprogramming in teleostsEvolution and Development
The prey availability and diet of juvenile Atlantic salmon (Salmo salar L.) in low-productivity rivers in northern EuropeJournal of Fish Biology
Diversity in the internal functional feeding elements of sympatric morphs of Arctic charr (Salvelinus alpinus)PLoS ONE

2023

Adaptive cellular evolution or cellular system drift in haresMolecular Ecology
Genetic structure and relatedness of brown trout (Salmo trutta) populations in the drainage basin of the Ölfusá river, South-Western IcelandPeerJ
Variation in personality shaped by evolutionary history, genotype and developmental plasticity in response to feeding modalities in the Arctic charrProceedings of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences

2022

A novel region within a conserved domain in ATG7 emerged in vertebratesAutophagy Reports
Evrópskir eldmaurar (Myrmica rubra) á ÍslandiNáttúrufræðingurinn
DNA methylation differences during development distinguish sympatric morphs of Arctic charr (Salvelinus alpinus)Molecular Ecology

2019

Extensive genetic differentiation between recently evolved sympatric Arctic charr morphsEcology and Evolution

2018

Differential gene expression during early development in recently evolved and sympatric Arctic charr morphsPeerJ
Differential gene expression during early development in recently evolved and sympatric Arctic charr morphsPeerJ

2017

Maedi-visna virus persistenceComparative Immunology, Microbiology and Infectious Diseases

2016

Fungal and cyanobacterial gene expression in a lichen symbiosisFungal Biology
The developmental transcriptome of contrasting Arctic charr (Salvelinus alpinus) morphsF1000Research

2015

Differential expression of the aryl hydrocarbon receptor pathway associates with craniofacial polymorphism in sympatric Arctic charrEvoDevo
Bones in motionDevelopmental Dynamics
Mitf is a master regulator of the v-ATPase, forming a control module for cellular homeostasis with v-ATPase and TORC1Journal of Cell Science
Bones in motion: Ontogeny of craniofacial development in sympatric arctic charr morphsDevelopmental Dynamics

2014

Naturally Occurring Deletions of Hunchback Binding Sites in the Even-Skipped Stripe 3+7 EnhancerPLoS ONE
Transcriptional dynamics of a conserved gene expression network associated with craniofacial divergence in Arctic charrEvoDevo
Stefnumót skilvirkni og breytileika – snertiflötur þroskunar og þróunarNáttúrufræðingurinn

2013

Differentiation at the MHCIIα and Cath2 Loci in Sympatric Salvelinus alpinus Resource Morphs in Lake ThingvallavatnPLoS ONE

2011

Arfleið Darwins

2010

Þróun mannsins

2009

DNA methylation programming and reprogramming in primate embryonic stem cellsGenome Research

2008

Two newly identified genetic determinants of pigmentation in EuropeansNature Genetics

2007

Variants conferring risk of atrial fibrillation on chromosome 4q25Nature
A common variant on chromosome 9p21 affects the risk of myocardial infarctionScience
Genetic determinants of hair, eye and skin pigmentation in EuropeansNature Genetics
A common variant on chromosome 9p21 affects the risk of myocardial infarctionObstetrical and Gynecological Survey
Canalization of segmentation and its evolution in DrosophilaProceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America

2005

Replication of an Egfr-wing shape association in a wild-caught cohort of Drosophila melanogasterGenetics
Functional Evolution of a cis-Regulatory ModulePLoS Biology
Tests for the replication of an association between Egfr and natural variation in Drosophila melanogaster wing morphologyBMC Genetics

2004

Nucleotide Variation in the Egfr Locus of Drosophila melanogasterGenetics
Association Between Nucleotide Variation in Egfr and Wing Shape in Drosophila melanogasterGenetics

2003

Evidence that Egfr Contributes to Cryptic Genetic Variation for Photoreceptor Determination in Natural Populations of Drosophila melanogasterCurrent Biology

2001

EvolutionCurrent Biology

2000

Quantitative trait loci affecting components of wing shape in Drosophila melanogasterGenetics
Quantitative developmental genetic analysis reveals that the ancestral dipteran wing vein prepattern is conserved in Drosophila melanogasterDevelopment Genes and Evolution

Keywords for Specialisation:

Evolutionary genomics

Evolution of development

Variation in early development

Genetics of complex traits

Evolutionary biology

Population genetics

Evolution of morphotypes and species

Transcriptional cooption

Transcriptional decay

Genetic diversity in Arctic charr

Drosophila melanogaster

Experimental evolution