Eugenio López-Cortegano
Statistical Geneticist
Research Direction
I am interested in the evolution of the mutational load in populations of small effective sizes under the joint action selection, genetic drift and mutation. I have developed a research programme with the objective to investigate rapid changes in population mutation rates, identifying naturally segregating mutator alleles, and evaluating their impact on biological fitness and genome evolution.
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Interests
- Population and Quantitative genetics
- Genome architecture
- Evolutionary theory
- Conservation genetics
- Computational biology
Education
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PhD in Population Genetics, 2017
Complutense University of Madrid
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MSc in Agroforestal Biotechnology, 2012
Technical University of Madrid
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BSc in Biology, 2011
Complutense University of Madrid
Publications
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(2024).
An estimate of fitness reduction from mutation accumulation in a mammal allows assessment of the consequences of relaxed selection.
PLoS Biology.
(2024).
Variation in the spectrum of new mutations among inbred strains of mice.
Molecular Biology and Evolution.
(2022).
Prediction of fitness under different breeding designs in conservation programs.
Animal Conservation, https://doi-org.ezproxy.is.ed.ac.uk/10.1111/acv.12804.
(2021).
Genetic purging in captive endangered ungulates with extremely low effective population sizes.
Heredity, 127: 433-442.
(2021).
Long-term exhaustion of the inbreeding load in Drosophila melanogaster.
Heredity, 127(4).
