Education:
Ph.D., University of Konstanz (Germany) - 2002 (Biology)
M.Sc., University of Guelph (Canada) - 1998 (Zoology)
B.Sc. Honors, Acadia University (Canada) - 1996 (Biology)
Areas of Expertise:
Evolutionary biology, functional genomics, marine biology, phylogeography and phylogenetics, reproductive ecology, sexual selection.
Books and Publications
Bahr, A. and A.B. Wilson. "The Evolution of MHC Diversity: Evidence of Intralocus Gene Conversion and Recombination in a Single-locus System." Gene 497: 52-57. (Books and Publications: Peer Reviewed Article) 2012
Bahr, A., S. Sommer, B. Mattle and A.B. Wilson. "Mutual Mate Choice in the Potbellied Seahorse (Hippocampus abdominalis)." Behavioral Ecology 23.4: 869-78. (Books and Publications: Peer Reviewed Article) 2012
Sommer, S., C.M. Whittington and A.B. Wilson. "Standardized Classification of Early Development in Male-pregnant Pipefish, Seahorses, and Seadragons (Family Syngnathidae)." BMC Developmental Biology 12: 39. (Books and Publications: Peer Reviewed Article) 2012
Winkler, J.D., K.N. Stolting and A.B. Wilson. "Sex-specific Responses to Fecundity Selection in the Broad-nosed Pipefish." Evolutionary Ecology 26: 701-14. (Books and Publications: Peer Reviewed Article) 2012
Bahr, A. and A.B. Wilson. "The Impact of Sex-role Reversal on the Diversity of the Major Histocompatibility Complex: Insights From the Seahorse (Hippocampus abdominalis)." BMC Evolutionary Biology 11: 121. (Books and Publications: Peer Reviewed Article) 2011
Hablützel, P. and A.B. Wilson. "Notes on the Occurrence of Syngnathus rostellatus Nilsson, 1855 (Teleostei, Syngnathidae) in the Mediterranean." Marine Biodiversity Records 4: e57. (Books and Publications: Peer Reviewed Article) 2011
Stölting, K.N., H.M. Meudt, A.C. Clarke, W.U. Blanckenhorn and A.B. Wilson. "Cost-effective Fluorescent Amplified Fragment Length Polymorphism Analyses." Molecular Ecology Notes 11: 494-502. (Books and Publications: Peer Reviewed Article) 2011
Wilson, A.B. and J.W. Orr. "The Evolutionary Origins of Syngnathidae: Pipefishes and Seahorses." Journal of Fish Biology 78: 1603-23. (Books and Publications: Peer Reviewed Article) 2011
Wilson, A.B. and Eigenmann Veraguth I. "The Impact of Pleistocene Glaciation Across the Range of a Widespread European Coastal Species." Molecular Ecology 19: 4535-53. (Books and Publications: Peer Reviewed Article) 2010
"Fecundity Selection Predicts Bergmann's Rule in Syngnathid Fishes." Molecular Ecology 18: 1263-72. (Books and Publications: Peer Reviewed Article) 2009
"Opening Pandora's Box: Comparative Studies of Genetic Mating Systems Reveal Reproductive Complexity." Molecular Ecology 18: 1307-09. (Books and Publications: Peer Reviewed Article) 2009
Mattle, B. and A.B. Wilson. "Body Size Preferences in the Pot-bellied Seahorse Hippocampus abdominalis: Choosy Males and Indiscriminate Females." Behavioral Ecology and Sociobiology 10: 1403-11. (Books and Publications: Peer Reviewed Article) 2009
Stoelting, K.N., G. Gort, C. Wüst and A.B. Wilson. "Eukaryotic Transcriptomics in Silico: Optimizing cDNA AFLP Efficiency." BMC Genomics 10: 565. (Books and Publications: Peer Reviewed Article) 2009
Rispoli, V.F. and A.B. Wilson. "Sexual Size Dimorphism Predicts the Frequency of Multiple Mating in the Sex-role Reversed Pipefish Syngnathus typhle." Journal of Evolutionary Biology 21: 30-38. (Books and Publications: Peer Reviewed Article) 2008
Wilson, A.B., G.G. Teugels and A. Meyer. "Marine Incursion: The Freshwater Herring of Lake Tanganyika Are the Product of a Marine Invasion Into West Africa." PLoS One 3: e1979. (Books and Publications: Peer Reviewed Article) 2008
Stoelting, K.N. and A.B. Wilson. "Male Pregnancy in Seahorses and Pipefish: Beyond the Mammalian Model." BioEssays 29: 884-96. (Books and Publications: Peer Reviewed Article) 2007
Wilson, A.B. and K.M. Martin-Smith. "Genetic Monogamy Despite Social Promiscuity in the Pot-bellied Seahorse (Hippocampus abdominalis)." Molecular Ecology 16: 2345-52. (Books and Publications: Peer Reviewed Article) 2007
"Genetic Signature of Recent Glaciation on Populations of a Near-shore Marine Fish Species (Syngnathus leptorhynchus)." Molecular Ecology 15: 1857-71. (Books and Publications: Peer Reviewed Article) 2006
"Interspecies Mating in Sympatric Species of Syngnathus Pipefish." Molecular Ecology 15: 809-24. (Books and Publications: Peer Reviewed Article) 2006
Millien, V., K.J. Lyons, L. Olsen, F.A. Smith, A.B. Wilson and Y. Yom-Tov. "Ecotypic Variation in the Context of Global Climate Change: Revisiting the Rules." Ecology Letters 9: 853-69. (Books and Publications: Peer Reviewed Article) 2006
Von Rintelen, T., A.B. Wilson, A. Meyer and M. Glaubrecht. "Escalation and Trophic Specialization Drive Adaptive Radiation of Freshwater Gastropods in Ancient Lakes on Sulawesi, Indonesia." Proceedings of the Royal Society, Series B, 271: 2541-50. (Books and Publications: Peer Reviewed Article) 2004
Wilson, A.B., M. Glaubrecht and A. Meyer. "Ancient Lakes as Evolutionary Reservoirs: Evidence From the Thalassoid Gastropods of Lake Tanganyika." Proceedings of the Royal Society, Series B, 271: 529-36. (Books and Publications: Peer Reviewed Article) 2004
Wilson, A.B., I. Ahnesjö, A. Vincent and A. Meyer. "The Dynamics of Male Brooding, Mating Patterns and Sex-roles in Pipefishes and Seahorses (Family Syngnathidae)." Evolution 57: 1374-86. (Books and Publications: Peer Reviewed Article) 2003
Wilson, A.B., A. Vincent, I. Ahnesjö and A. Meyer. "Male Pregnancy in Seahorses and Pipefishes (Family Syngnathidae): Rapid Diversification of Paternal Brood Pouch Morphology Inferred From a Molecular Phylogeny." Journal of Heredity 92: 159-66. (Books and Publications: Peer Reviewed Article) 2001
Noack, K., A.B. Wilson and A. Meyer. "Broad Taxonomic Applicability of Microsatellites Developed for the Highly Polymorphic Neotropical Cichlid (Amphilophus citrinellum)." Animal Genetics 31.2: 151-52. (Books and Publications: Peer Reviewed Article) 2000
Wilson, A.B., K. Noack-Kunnmann and A. Meyer. "Incipient Speciation in Sympatric Nicaraguan Crater Lake Cichlid Fishes: Sexual Selection Versus Ecological Diversification." Proceedings of the Royal Society, Series B, 267: 2133-41. (Books and Publications: Peer Reviewed Article) 2000
Wilson, A.B., E.G. Boulding and K.-A. Naish. "Characterization of Tri- and Tetra-nucleotide Microsatellite Markers in the Invasive Mollusc, Dreissena bugensis." Molecular Ecology 6: 692-93. (Books and Publications: Peer Reviewed Article) 1999
Wilson, A.B., K.-A. Naish and E.G. Boulding. "Multiple Dispersal Strategies of the Invasive Quagga Mussel Dreissena bugensis as Revealed by Microsatellite Analysis. Canadian Journal of Fisheries and Aquatic Sciences 56: 2248-61. (Books and Publications: Peer Reviewed Article) 1999
Claxton, W.T., A.B. Wilson, G.L. Mackie and E.G. Boulding. "A Genetic and Morphological Comparison of Shallow and Deep Water Populations of the Introduced Dreissenid Bivalve, Dreissena bugensis." Canadian Journal of Zoology 76: 1269-76. (Books and Publications: Peer Reviewed Article) 1998
Wilson, A.B., J.S. Boates and M. Snyder. "The Role of Topography in the Genetic Isolation of Populations of the Gammaridean Amphipod, Corophium volutator, in the Bay of Fundy, Canada." Molecular Ecology 6: 917-23. (Books and Publications: Peer Reviewed Article) 1997
