MGE symposium volume
The Natural Environment Research Council-Royal Society of Edinburgh Symposium on Molecular Genetics
in Animal Ecology (Eds. Racey PA, Bacon PJ, Dallas JF, Piertney SB), 1999. Biological Journal of the
Linnean Society 68, Vol. 1-2, pp. 1-331.
MGE refereed publications
Piertney, S.B., Lambin, X., MacColl, A.D.C., Lock, S., Bacon, P.J., Dallas, J.F., Leckie, F., Mougeot, F.,
Racey, P.A., Redpath, S. and Moss, R. (2008). Temporal changes in kin structure through a population cycle
in territorial bird, the red grouse Lagopus lagopus scoticus. Molecular Ecology. 17: 2544-2551.
Racey PA, Barratt EM, Burland T, Deaville R, Gotelli D, Jones G, & Piertney SB (2007): Microsatellite DNA
polymorphism reveals reproductive isolation of cryptic pipistrelle bat species and differences in
population genetic structure. Biol J. Linn Soc. 90, 539-550.
Aars J, Dallas JF, Piertney SB, Marshall M, Gow JL, Telfer S & Lambin X (2006): Widespread gene flow and
high genetic variability in populations of water voles Arvicola terrestris in patchy habitats. Molecular
Ecology 15, 1455-1466.
Mougeot F, Piertney SB, Redpath SM (2006): Elevated spring testosterone increases parasite intensity in
male red grouse. Behavioural Ecology 17, 117-125.
Parsons KM, Piertney SB, Middlemas SJ, Hammond PS & Armstrong JD (2005): DNA-based identification of
salmonid prey species in seal faeces. Journal of Zoology 266, 275-281.
Mougeot F, Piertney SB, Leckie F, Evans S, Moss R, Redpath SM & Hudson PJ (2005): Experimentally
increased aggressiveness affects population kin structure and subsequent recruitment in red grouse
Lagopus lagopus scoticus. J. Animal Ecology 74, 488-497.
Piertney SB, Stewart WA, Lambin X, Telfer S, Aars J & Dallas JF (2005): Phylogeographic structure and
post-glacial evolutionary history of water voles (Arvicola terrestris) in the United Kingdom. Molecular
Ecology 14, 1435-1444.
Mougeot F, Redpath SM, Piertney SB & Hudson PJ (2005): Separating behavioral and physiological
mechanisms in testosterone mediated trade-offs. American Naturalist 166, 158-169.
Dallas JF, Leitch MJB, Hulme PE. (2005) Microsatellites for tree of heaven (Ailanthus altissima)
Molecular Ecology Notes 5 340-342
Cote SD, Stien A, Irvine RJ, Dallas JF, Marshall F, Halvorsen O, Langvatn R, Albon SD. (2005):
Resistance to abomasal nematodes and individual genetic variability in reindeer. Molecular
Ecology 14 4159-4168
Hambly C, Pinshow B, Wiersma P, Verhulst S, Piertney SB, Harper EH & Speakman JR (2004) Comparison
of the cost of short flights in a nectarivorous and non-nectarivorous bird. Journal of Experimental
Biology 207, 3959-3968.
Hauffe HC, Panithanarak T, Dallas JF, Piálek J, Gündüz I, Searle JB (2004) The tobacco mouse and its
relatives: a (tail) of coat colours, chromosomes, hybridisation and speciation. Cytogenetic and
Genome Research 105, 395-405.
Lambin X, Aars J, Piertney SB, Telfer S (2004) Inferring pattern and process in small mammal
metapopulations: Insights from ecological and genetic data. In: Ecology, Genetics & Evolution of
Metapopulations (eds. Hanski I, Gaggioti O), Academic Press, London.
Mougeot F, Irvine RJ, Seivwright L, Redpath SM & Piertney SB (2004) Testosterone, immunocompetence
and honest sexual signalling in male red grouse. Behavioural Ecology 15, 930-937
Panithanarak T, Hauffe HC, Dallas JF, Glover A, Ward RG & Searle JB (2004) Linkage-dependent gene flow
in a chromosomal hybrid zone in house mice. Evolution 58, 184-192.
Paterson S, Piertney SB, Knox D, Gilbey J, Verspoor E (2004) Characterization and PCR multiplexing of
novel highly variable tetranucleotide Atlantic salmon (Salmo salar L.) microsatellites. Molecular
Ecology Notes 4, 160-162.
Dallas JF, Coxon KE, Sykes T, Chanin PRF, Marshall F, Carss DN, Bacon PJ, Piertney SB, Racey PA
(2003) Similar estimates of population genetic composition and sex ratio derived from carcasses and
faeces of Eurasian otter Lutra lutra. Molecular Ecology 12, 275-282.
Dallas JF, Cruickshank RH, Linton Y-M, Nolan DV, Patakakis M, Braverman Y, Capela R, Capela M, Pena I,
Meiswinkel R, Ortega MD, Baylis M, Mellor PS, Mordue (Luntz) AJ (2003) Phylogenetic status and
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matrilineal structure of the biting midge Culicoides imicola in Portugal, Rhodes and Israel. Medical and
Veterinary Entomology 17, 379-387.
Gare DC, Piertney SB, Billingsley R (2003) Anopheles gambiae collagen IV genes: cloning, phylogeny and
midgut expression associated with blood feeding and Plasmodium infection. International Journal for
Parasitology 33, 681-690.
Moss R, Piertney SB, Palmer SCF (2003) The use and abuse of microsatellite DNA markers in conservation
biology. Wildlife Biology 9, 243-250.
Piertney SB (2003) Major histocompatibility complex B-LB gene variation in red grouse (Lagopus lagopus
scoticus). Wildlife Biology 9, 251-259.
Piertney SB, Carss DN, Goostrey A (2003) Population variation in the frequency of extra-pair paternity in the
great cormorant Phalacrocorax carbo. Vogelwelt 124, 149-155.
Piertney SB, Hudelot C, Hochberg FG, Collins MA (2003) Phylogenetic relationships among cirrate octopods
(Mollusca: Cephalopoda) resolved using mitochondrial 16S ribosomal DNA sequences. Molecular
Phylogenetics and Evolution 27, 348-353.
Summers R, Piertney SB (2003) The Scottish crossbill: what we know and what we don’t. British Birds 96,
100-111.
Telfer S, Dallas JF, Aars J, Piertney SB, Stewart WA, Lambin X (2003) Demographic and genetic structure of
fossorial water voles (Arvicola terrestris) on Scottish islands. Journal of Zoology 259, 23-29.
Telfer S, Piertney SB, Dallas JF, Stewart WA, Marshall F, Gow JL, Lambin X (2003) Parentage assignment
detects frequent and large-scale dispersal in water voles. Molecular Ecology 12, 1939-1949.
Allcock AL, Piertney SB (2002) Evolutionary relationships of southern ocean Octopodidae (Cephalopoda:
Octopoda) and a new diagnosis of Pareledone. Marine Biology 140, 129-135.
Côté SD, Dallas JF, Marshall F, Irvine RJ, Langvatn R, Albon SD (2002) Microsatellite DNA evidence for
genetic drift and philopatry in Svalbard reindeer. Molecular Ecology 11, 1923-1930.
Dallas JF, Marshall F, Piertney SB, Bacon PJ, Racey PA (2002) Spatially restricted gene flow and reduced
microsatellite polymorphism in the Eurasian otter Lutra lutra in Britain. Conservation Genetics 3, 1529.
Hawkins CE, Dallas JF, Fowler PA, Woodroffe R, Racey PA (2002) Transient masculinization in the fossa,
Cryptoprocta ferox (Carnivora, Viverridae). Biology of Reproduction 66, 610-615.
Höglund J, Piertney SB, Alatalo RV, Lindell J, Lundberg A, Rintamäki PT (2002) Inbreeding depression and
male fitness in black grouse. Proceedings of the Royal Society of London Series B-Biological Sciences
269, 711-715.
Irvine RJ, Dallas JF (2002) Efficient polymerase chain reaction detection of the second internal transcribed
spacer of mucosa-derived larvae is dependent on the larval extraction method. Journal of Parasitology
88, 807-809.
Linton YM, Mordue AJ, Cruickshank RH, Meiswinkel R, Mellor PS, Dallas JF (2002) Phylogenetic analysis of
the mitochondrial cytochrome oxidase subunit I gene of five species of the Culicoides imicola species
complex. Medical and Veterinary Entomology 16, 139-146.
Piertney SB, Shorey L, Höglund J (2002) Characterization of microsatellite DNA markers in the whitebearded manakin (Manacus manacus). Molecular Ecology Notes 2, 504-505.
Thuman KA, Widemo F, Piertney SB (2002) Characterization of polymorphic microsatellite DNA markers in
the ruff (Philomachus pugnax). Molecular Ecology Notes 2, 276-277.
Aars J, Lambin X, Denny R, Griffin AC (2001) Water vole in the Scottish uplands: distribution patterns of
disturbed and pristine populations ahead and behind the American mink invasion front. Animal
Conservation 4, 187-194.
Dallas JF, Irvine RJ, Halvorsen O (2001) DNA evidence that Marshallagia marshalli Ransom, 1907 and M.
occidentalis Ransom, 1907 (Nematoda: Ostertagiinae) from Svalbard reindeer are conspecific.
Systematic Parasitology 50, 101-103.
Irvine RJ, Stien A, Dallas JF, Halvorsen O, Langvatn R, Albon SD (2001) Contrasting regulation of fecundity
in two abomasal nematodes of Svalbard reindeer (Rangifer tarandus platyrhynchus). Parasitology 122,
673-681.
Lambin X, Aars J & Piertney SB. 2001. The roles of intraspecific competition, kin competition and kin cooperation in the evolution and ecology of dispersal: a review of the empirical evidence. In: Causes,
Consequences and Mechanisms of Dispersal at the Individual, Population and Community level (eds.
Clobert J, Nichols JD, Danchin E & Dhondt A). OUP, Oxford, UK.
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Piertney SB, Höglund J (2001) Polymorphic microsatellite DNA markers in black grouse (Tetrao tetrix).
Molecular Ecology Notes 1, 303-304.
Piertney SB, Summers R, Marquiss M (2001) Microsatellite and mitochondrial DNA homogeneity among
phenotypically diverse crossbill taxa in the UK. Proceedings of the Royal Society of London Series BBiological Sciences 268, 1511-1517.
Dallas JF, Carss DN, Marshall F, Koepfli K-P, Kruuk H, Piertney SB, Bacon PJ (2000) Sex identification of
the Eurasian otter Lutra lutra by PCR typing of spraints. Conservation Genetics 1, 181-183.
Dallas JF, Irvine RJ, Halvorsen O (2000) DNA evidence that Ostertagia gruehneri and Ostertagia arctica
(Nematoda: Ostertagiinae) in reindeer from Norway and Svalbard are conspecific. International
Journal for Parasitology 30, 655-658.
Dallas JF, Irvine RJ, Halvorsen O, Albon SD (2000) Identification by polymerase chain reaction (PCR) of
Marshallagia marshalli and Ostertagia gruehneri from Svalbard reindeer. International Journal for
Parasitology 30, 863-866.
MacColl ADC, Piertney SB, Moss R, Lambin X (2000) Spatial arrangement of kin affects recruitment success
in young male red grouse. Oikos 90, 261-270.
Piertney SB, Dallas JF, Hawkins CE, Racey PA (2000) Microsatellite markers for the fossa (Cryptoprocta
ferox). Molecular Ecology 9, 489-490.
Piertney SB, MacColl ADC, Bacon PJ, Racey PA, Lambin X, Dallas JF (2000) Matrilineal genetic structure
and female-mediated gene flow in red grouse (Lagopus lagopus scoticus): An analysis using
mitochondrial DNA. Evolution 54, 279-289.
Shorey L, Piertney S, Stone J, Höglund J (2000) Fine-scale genetic structuring on Manacus manacus leks.
Nature 408, 352-353.
Dallas JF, Bacon PJ, Carss DN, Conroy JWH, Green R, Jefferies DJ, Kruuk H, Marshall F, Piertney SB,
Racey PA (1999) Genetic diversity in the Eurasian otter, Lutra lutra, in Scotland. Evidence from
microsatellite polymorphism. Biological Journal of the Linnean Society 68, 73-86.
Jones CS, Lockyer AE, Rollinson D, Piertney SB, Noble LR (1999) Isolation and characterization of
microsatellite loci in the freshwater gastropod, Biomphalaria glabrata, an intermediate host for
Schistosoma mansoni. Molecular Ecology 8, 2149-2151.
Parsons KM, Dallas JF, Claridge DE, Durban JW, Balcomb KC, Thompson PM, Noble LR (1999) Amplifying
dolphin mitochondrial DNA from faecal plumes. Molecular Ecology 8, 1766-1768.
Piertney SB, MacColl ADC, Lambin X, Moss R, Dallas JF (1999) Spatial distribution of genetic relatedness in
a moorland population of red grouse (Lagopus lagopus scoticus). Biological Journal of the Linnean
Society 68, 317-331.
Stewart WA, Dallas JF, Piertney SB, Marshall F, Lambin X, Telfer S (1999) Metapopulation genetic structure
in the water vole, Arvicola terrestris, in NE Scotland. Biological Journal of the Linnean Society 68, 159171.
Dallas JF, Bonhomme F, Boursot P, Britton-Davidian J, Bauchau V (1998) Population genetic structure in a
Robertsonian race of house mice: evidence from microsatellite polymorphism. Heredity 80, 70-77.
Dallas JF, Piertney SB (1998) Microsatellite primers for the Eurasian otter. Molecular Ecology 7, 1248-1251.
Goostrey A, Carss DN, Noble LR, Piertney SB (1998) Population introgression and differentiation in the great
cormorant Phalacrocorax carbo in Europe. Molecular Ecology 7, 329-338.
Piertney SB, Goostrey A, Dallas JF, Carss DN (1998) Highly polymorphic microsatellite markers in the great
cormorant Phalacrocorax carbo. Molecular Ecology 7, 138-140.
Piertney SB, MacColl ADC, Bacon PJ, Dallas JF (1998) Local genetic structure in red grouse (Lagopus
lagopus scoticus): evidence from microsatellite DNA markers. Molecular Ecology 7, 1645-1654.
Piertney SB, Marquiss M, Summers R (1998) Characterization of tetranucleotide microsatellite markers in
the Scottish crossbill (Loxia scotica). Molecular Ecology 7, 1261-1263.
Stewart WA, Piertney SB, Dallas JF (1998) Isolation and characterization of highly polymorphic
microsatellites in the water vole, Arvicola terrestris. Molecular Ecology 7, 1258-1259.
Piertney SB, Dallas JF (1997) Isolation and characterization of hypervariable microsatellites in the red
grouse Lagopus lagopus scoticus. Molecular Ecology 6, 93-95.
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