Kasper Munch

Research

Our research addresses the evolutionary processes that give rise to the genetic diversity of present-day species. We develop theory and computational methodologies and analyze shared ancestry across large numbers of human and primate genomes. We focus on the unique processes governing sex chromosome evolution and how these may help explain both reproductive isolation of emerging species and the role sex plays in neurodevelopment. [Read more here …]

Peer-reviewed publications

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Lorenzen, E. D., Nogués-Bravo, D., Orlando, L., Weinstock, J., Binladen, J., Marske, K. A., Ugan, A., Borregaard, M. K., Gilbert, M. T. P., Nielsen, R., Ho, S. Y. W., Goebel, T., Graf, K. E., Byers, D., Stenderup, J., Rasmussen, M., Campos, P., Leonard, J. A., Koepfli, K.-P. ... Willerslev, E. (2011). Species-specific responses of Late Quaternary megafauna to climate and humans. Nature, 479(7373), 359-64. https://doi.org/10.1038/nature10574

Lauterbur, M. E., Munch, K. & Enard, D. (2023). Versatile Detection of Diverse Selective Sweeps with Flex-Sweep. Molecular Biology and Evolution, 40(6), Article msad139. https://doi.org/10.1093/molbev/msad139

Jordan, V. E., Walker, J. A., Beckstrom, T. O., Steely, C. J., McDaniel, C. L., St Romain, C. P., The Baboon Genome Analysis Consortium, Worley, K. C., Phillips-Conroy, J., Jolly, C. J., Rogers, J., Konkel, M. K. & Batzer, M. A. (2018). A computational reconstruction of Papio phylogeny using Alu insertion polymorphisms. Mobile DNA, 9(1), Article 13. https://doi.org/10.1186/s13100-018-0118-3

Johnson, S. S., Hebsgaard, M. B., Christensen, T. R., Mastepanov, M., Nielsen, R., Munch, K., Brand, T., Gilbert, M. T. P., Zuber, M. T., Bunce, M., Rønn, R., Gilichinsky, D., Froese, D. & Willerslev, E. (2007). Ancient bacteria show evidence of DNA repair. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences (PNAS), 104(36), 14401-14405. https://doi.org/10.1073/pnas.0706787104

Johnson, S. S., Hebsgaard, M. B., Christensen, T. R., Mastepanov, M., Nielsen, R., Munch, K., Brand, T., Gilbert, M. T. P., Zuber, M. T., Bunce, M., Rønn, R., Gilichinsky, D., Froese, D. & Willerslev, E. (2008). Correction for Johnson et al., Ancient bacteria show evidence of DNA repair. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences (PNAS), 105(30). https://doi.org/10.1073/pnas.0804198105

Johnson, S. S., Hebsgaard, M. B., Christensen, T. R., Mastepanov, M., Nielsen, R., Munch, K., Brand, T., Gilbert, M. T. P., Zuber, M. T., Bunce, M., Rønn, R., Gilichinsky, D., Froese, D. & Willerslev, E. (2007). Ancient bacteria show evidence of DNA repair (Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America (2007) 104, 36 (14401-14405) (DOI: 10.1073/pnas.0706787104). Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences (PNAS), 104(51). https://doi.org/10.1073/pnas.0710637105

Jarvis, E. D., Mirarab, S., Aberer, A. J., Li, B., Houde, P., Li, C., Ho, S. Y. W., Faircloth, B. C., Nabholz, B., Howard, J. T., Suh, A., Weber, C. C., da Fonseca, R. R., Li, J., Zhang, F., Li, H., Zhou, L., Narula, N., Liu, L. ... Zhang, G. (2014). Whole-genome analyses resolve early branches in the tree of life of modern birds. Science, 346(6215), 1320-31. https://doi.org/10.1126/science.1253451

Jacobsen, L. M. W., Pujolar, J. M., Bernatchez, L., Munch, K., Jian, J., Niu, Y. & Hansen, M. M. (2014). Genomic footprints of speciation in Atlantic eels (Anguilla anguilla and A. Rostrata). Molecular Ecology, 23(19), 4785-4798. https://doi.org/10.1111/mec.12896

Hvilsom, C., Qian, Y., Bataillon, T., Li, Y., Mailund, T., Sallé, B., Carlsen, F., Li, R., Zheng, H., Jiang, T., Jiang, H., Jin, X., Munch, K., Hobolth, A., Siegismund, H. R., Wang, J. & Schierup, M. H. (2012). Extensive X-linked adaptive evolution in central chimpanzees. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences (PNAS). https://doi.org/10.1073/pnas.1106877109

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