Dr Aaron Comeault

Lecturer in Biological Sciences

Contact info

Room: 304, Environment Centre Wales, School of Natural Sciences, Bangor University

Email: a.comeault@bangor.ac.uk

Phone: +44 (0) 1248 382631

Twitter: @AAComeault

 

  1. Article › Research › Peer-reviewed
  2. A Maladaptive Combination of Traits Contributes to the Maintenance of a Drosophila Hybrid Zone

    Cooper, B. S., Sedghifar, A., Nash, W. T., Comeault, A. A. & Matute, D. R., 30 Aug 2018, In: Current Biology. 28, 18, p. 2940-2947

    Research output: Contribution to journalArticlepeer-review

  3. Published

    A nonrandom subset of olfactory genes is associated with host preference in the fruit fly Drosophila orena

    Comeault, A. A., Serrato-Capuchina, A., Turissini, D. A., McLaughlin, P. J., David, J. R. & Matute, D. R., Jun 2017, In: Evolution Letters. 1, 2, p. 73-85 13 p.

    Research output: Contribution to journalArticlepeer-review

  4. Color phenotypes are under similar genetic control in two distantly related species of Timema stick insect

    Comeault, A. A., Carvalho, C. F., Dennis, S., Soria-Carrasco, V. & Nosil, P., 21 Jun 2016, In: Evolution. 70, 6, p. 1283-96 14 p.

    Research output: Contribution to journalArticlepeer-review

  5. Published

    Conservation genomic analysis reveals ancient introgression and declining levels of genetic diversity in Madagascar's hibernating dwarf lemurs

    Williams, R. C., Blanco, M. B., Poelstra, J. W., Hunnicutt, K. E., Comeault, A. & Yoder, A. D., Jan 2020, In: Heredity. 124, 1, p. 236-251

    Research output: Contribution to journalArticlepeer-review

  6. Correlated evolution of male and female reproductive traits drive a cascading effect of reinforcement in Drosophila yakuba

    Comeault, A. A., Venkat, A. & Matute, D. R., 27 Jul 2016, In: Proceedings of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences. 283, 1835

    Research output: Contribution to journalArticlepeer-review

  7. Genetic divergence and the number of hybridizing species affect the path to homoploid hybrid speciation

    Comeault, A. A. & Matute, D. R., 25 Sept 2018, In: Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America. 115, 39, p. 9761-9766

    Research output: Contribution to journalArticlepeer-review

  8. Published

    Genetic diversity and thermal performance in invasive and native populations of African fig flies

    Comeault, A., Wang, J., Tittes, S., Isbell, K., Ingley, S., Hurlbert, A. & Matute, D., 28 Feb 2020, In: Molecular Biology and Evolution.

    Research output: Contribution to journalArticlepeer-review

  9. Published

    Genomic signatures of admixture and selection are shared among populations of Zaprionus indianus across the western hemisphere

    Comeault, A., Kautt, A. F. & Matute, D. R., Dec 2021, In: Molecular Ecology. 30, 23, p. 6193-6210 18 p.

    Research output: Contribution to journalArticlepeer-review

  10. Published

    Highly contiguous assemblies of 101 drosophilid genomes

    Kim, B. Y., Wang, J., Miller, D. E., Barmina, O., Delaney, E. K., Thompson, A., Comeault, A., Peede, D., D'Agostino, E. R., Pelaez, J., Aguilar, J. M., Haji, D., Matsunaga, T., Armstrong, E., Zych, M., Ogawa, Y., Stamenković-Radak, M., Jelić, M., Savić Veselinović, M., Tanasković, M., Erić, P., Gao, J-J., Katoh, T. K., Toda, M. J., Watabe, H., Watada, M., Davis, J. S., Moyle, L., Manoli, G., Bertolini, E., Koštál, V., Hawley, R. S., Takahashi, A., Jones, C. D., Price, D. K., Whiteman, N. K., Kopp, A., Matute, D. R. & Petrov, D. A., 19 Jul 2021, In: Elife. 10, e66405.

    Research output: Contribution to journalArticlepeer-review

  11. Published

    Phylogenetic climatic niche conservatism in sandflies (Diptera: Phlebotominae) and their relatives

    D'Agostino, E. R. R., Vivero, R., Romero, L., Bejarano, E., Hurlbert, A. H., Comeault, A. A. & Matute, D. R., 1 Oct 2022, In: Evolution: International Journal of Organic Evolution. 76, 10, p. 2361-2374

    Research output: Contribution to journalArticlepeer-review

  12. Published

    Rapid Parallel Adaptation to Anthropogenic Heavy Metal Pollution

    Papadopulos, A. S. T., Helmstetter, A. J., Osborne, O., Comeault, A., Wood, D., Straw, E. A., Mason, L., Fay, M. F., Parker, J., Dunning, L. T., Foote, A., Smith, R. J. & Lighten, J., Sept 2021, In: Molecular Biology and Evolution. 38, 9, p. 3724-3736 13 p.

    Research output: Contribution to journalArticlepeer-review

  13. Published

    Rapid and Predictable Evolution of Admixed Populations Between Two Drosophila Species Pairs

    Matute, D. R., Comeault, A., Earley, E., Serrato-Capuchina, A., Peede, D., Monroy-Eklund, A., Huang, W., Jones, C. D., Mackay, T. F. C. & Coyne, J. A., 1 Jan 2020, In: Genetics. 214, 1, p. 211-230 20 p.

    Research output: Contribution to journalArticlepeer-review

  14. Reinforcement's incidental effects on reproductive isolation between conspecifics

    Comeault, A. A. & Matute, D. R., Apr 2016, In: Current zoology. 62, 2, p. 135-143 9 p.

    Research output: Contribution to journalArticlepeer-review

  15. Selection on a Genetic Polymorphism Counteracts Ecological Speciation in a Stick Insect

    Comeault, A. A., Flaxman, S. M., Riesch, R., Curran, E., Soria-Carrasco, V., Gompert, Z., Farkas, T. E., Muschick, M., Parchman, T. L., Schwander, T., Slate, J. & Nosil, P., 3 Aug 2015, In: Current Biology. 25, 15, p. 1975-1981

    Research output: Contribution to journalArticlepeer-review

  16. Published

    Stick insect genomes reveal natural selection's role in parallel speciation

    Soria-Carrasco, V., Gompert, Z., Comeault, A. A., Farkas, T. E., Parchman, T. L., Johnston, J. S., Buerkle, C. A., Feder, J. L., Bast, J., Schwander, T., Egan, S. P., Crespi, B. J. & Nosil, P., 16 May 2014, In: Science. 344, 6185, p. 738-42 5 p.

    Research output: Contribution to journalArticlepeer-review

  17. Published

    Temperature-dependent competitive outcomes between the fruit flies Drosophila santomea and Drosophila yakuba

    Comeault, A. & Matute, D. R., Mar 2021, In: American Naturalist. 197, 3, p. 312-323 12 p.

    Research output: Contribution to journalArticlepeer-review

  18. The genomic and ecological context of hybridization affects the probability that symmetrical incompatibilities drive hybrid speciation

    Comeault, A., Mar 2018, In: Ecology and Evolution. 8, 5, p. 2926-2937 12 p.

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  19. E-pub ahead of print

    Toward the integration of speciation research

    Stankowski, S., Cutter, A. D., Satokangas, I., Lerch, B. A., Rolland, J., Smadja, C. M., Marzal, J. C. S., Cooney, C. R., Feulner, P. G. D., Domingos, F. M. C. B., North, H. L., Yamaguchi, R., Butlin, R. K., Wolf, J. B. W., Coughlan, J., Heidbreder, P., Hernandez-Guttierrez, R., Barnard-Kubow, K. B., Peede, D., Rancilhac, L., Salvador, R. B., Thompson, K. A., Stacy, E. A., Moyle, L. C., Garlovsky, M. D., Maulana, A., Kantelinen, A., Cacho, N. I., Schneemann, H., Dominguez, M., Dopman, E. B., Lohsa, K., Rometsch, S. J., Comeault, A., Merrill, R. M., Scordato, E. S. C., Singhal, S., Parssinen, V., Lackey, A. C. R., Kumar, S., Meier, J. I., Barton, N., Fraisse, C., Ravinet, M. & Kulumni, J., 16 Feb 2024, (E-pub ahead of print) In: Evolutionary Journal of the Linnean Society. 3, 1

    Research output: Contribution to journalArticlepeer-review

  20. Transitions between phases of genomic differentiation during stick-insect speciation

    Riesch, R., Muschick, M., Lindtke, D., Villoutreix, R., Comeault, A. A., Farkas, T. E., Lucek, K., Hellen, E., Soria-Carrasco, V., Dennis, S. R., de Carvalho, C. F., Safran, R. J., Sandoval, C. P., Feder, J., Gries, R., Crespi, B. J., Gries, G., Gompert, Z. & Nosil, P., 17 Feb 2017, In: Nature Ecology and Evolution. 1, 4, p. 82

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  21. Published

    Widespread introgression across a phylogeny of 155 Drosophila genomes

    Suvorov, A., Kim, B. Y., Wang, J., Armstrong, E. E., Peede, D., D'Agostino, E. R. R., Price, D. K., Waddell, P., Lang, M., Courtier-Orgogozo, V., David, J. R., Petrov, D., Matute, D. R., Schrider, D. R. & Comeault, A., 10 Jan 2022, In: Current Biology. 32, 1, p. 111-123

    Research output: Contribution to journalArticlepeer-review