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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Walker, J. A., Jordan, V. E., Storer, J. M., Steely, C. J., Gonzalez-Quiroga, P., Beckstrom, T. O., Rewerts, L. C., St. Romain, C. P., Rockwell, C. E., Rogers, J., Jolly, C. J., Konkel, M. K., The Baboon Genome Analysis Consortium & Batzer, M. A. (2019). Alu insertion polymorphisms shared by Papio baboons and Theropithecus gelada reveal an intertwined common ancestry. Mobile DNA, 10(1), Article 46. https://doi.org/10.1186/s13100-019-0187-y

Prado-Martinez, J., Sudmant, P. H., Kidd, J. M., Li, H., Kelley, J. L., Lorente-Galdos, B., Veeramah, K. R., Woerner, A. E., O'Connor, T. D., Santpere, G., Cagan, A., Theunert, C., Casals, F., Laayouni, H., Munch, K., Hobolth, A., Halager, A. E., Malig, M., Hernandez-Rodriguez, J. ... Marques-Bonet, T. (2013). Great ape genetic diversity and population history. Nature, 499, 471–475. https://doi.org/10.1038/nature12228

Røikjer, T., Hobolth, A. & Munch, K. (2022). Graph-based algorithms for phase-type distributions. Statistics and Computing, 32(6), Article 103. https://doi.org/10.1007/s11222-022-10174-3

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

Fan, R., Gu, Z., Guang, X., Marín, J. C., Varas, V., González, B. A., Wheeler, J. C., Hu, Y., Li, E., Sun, X., Yang, X., Zhang, C., Gao, W., He, J., Munch, K., Corbett-Detig, R., Barbato, M., Pan, S., Zhan, X. ... Dong, C. (2020). Genomic analysis of the domestication and post-Spanish conquest evolution of the llama and alpaca. Genome Biology, 21(1), Article 159. https://doi.org/10.1186/s13059-020-02080-6

Pujolar, J. M., Jacobsen, L. M. W., Als, T. D., Frydenberg, J., Munch, K., Jonsson, B., Jian, J. B., Cheng, L., Maes, G. E., Bernatchez, L. & Hansen, M. M. (2014). Genome-wide single generation signatures of local selection in the panmictic European eel. Molecular Ecology, 23, 2514-2528. https://doi.org/10.1111/mec.12753

Sørensen, E. F., Harris, R. A., Zhang, L., Raveendran, M., Kuderna, L. F. K., Walker, J. A., Storer, J. M., Kuhlwilm, M., Fontsere, C., Seshadri, L., Bergey, C. M., Burrell, A. S., Bergman, J., Phillips-Conroy, J. E., Shiferaw, F., Chiou, K. L., Chuma, I. S., Keyyu, J. D., Fischer, J. ... Rogers, J. (2023). Genome-wide coancestry reveals details of ancient and recent male-driven reticulation in baboons. Science (New York, N.Y.), 380(6648), Article eabn8153. https://doi.org/10.1126/science.abn8153

Munch, K., Boomsma, W., Willerslev, E. & Nielsen, R. (2008). Fast phylogenetic DNA barcoding. Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences, 363(1512), 3997-4002. https://doi.org/10.1098/rstb.2008.0169

Nam, K., Munch, K., Hobolth, A., Dutheil, J. Y., Veeramah, K. R., Woerner, A. E., Hammer, M. F., Mailund, T., Schierup, M. H. & Great Ape Genome Diversity Project (2015). Extreme selective sweeps independently targeted the X chromosomes of the great apes. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences (PNAS), 112(20). https://doi.org/10.1073/pnas.1419306112

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