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Publications

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In progress

• Rodrigues MA, Paris M, Kapun M, Durmaz E, Kerdaffrec E, Flatt T. “The transcriptional underpinnings of the trade-off between reproduction and somatic maintenance in Drosophila melanogaster”, pdf available upon request.

• Kapun M, Durmaz E, Kawecki T, Schmidt P, Flatt T. “An ancestrally tropical balanced inversion polymorphism confers global adaptation to warm climate”, https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2023.01.31.526462v1.

Published

• Rodrigues MA, Merckelbach A, Durmaz E, Kerdaffrec E, Flatt T. Transcriptomic evidence for a trade-off between germline proliferation and immunity in Drosophila, Evolution Letters, 2021; doi:10.1002/evl3.261.

• Ozsoy E, Yilmaz M, Patlar B, Emecen G, Durmaz E, Magwire MM, Zhou S, Anholt RRH, Mackay TFC. Epistasis for head morphology in Drosophila melanogaster, G3, 2021; doi:10.1093/g3journal/jkab285.

• Betancourt N, Rajpurohit S, Durmaz E, Fabian DK, Kapun M, Thomas F, Schmidt P. Allelic polymorphism at foxo contributes to local adaptation in Drosophila melanogaster, Molecular Ecology, 2021; 00:1–14; doi:10.1111/mec.15939.

• Durmaz E, Kerdaffrec E, Katsianis G, Kapun M, Flatt T. How does selection act on chromosomal inversions?, eLS (Encyclopaedia of Life Sciences), 2020; 1, 307–315; doi:10.1002/9780470015902.a0028745.

• Durmaz E, Rajpurohit S, Betancourt N, Fabian DK, Kapun M, Schmidt P, Thomas F. A clinal polymorphism in the insulin signaling transcription factor foxo contributes to life-history adaptation in Drosophila, Evolution, 2019; 73-9(5):1774-1792; doi:10.1111/evo.13759.

• Durmaz E, Benson C, Kapun M, Schmidt P, Flatt T. An inversion supergene in Drosophila underpins latitudinal clines in survival traits, Journal of Evolutionary Biology, 2018; 31(9):1354-1364; doi:10.1111/jeb.13310.

• Durmaz E. The Effects of Clinal Polymorphisms on Drosophila Life History, PhD Thesis, 2017; University of Lausanne Open Archive.

• Kapun M, Schmidt C, Durmaz E, Schmidt PS, Flatt T. Parallel effects of the inversion In(3R)Payne on body size across the North American and Australian clines in Drosophila melanogaster, Journal of Evolutionary Biology, 2016; 29(5):1059-72; doi:10.1111/jeb.12847.

• Demirci B, Durmaz E, Alten B. Influence of Bloodmeal Source on Reproductive Output of the Potential West Nile Vector, Culex theileri (Diptera: Culicidae), Journal of Medical Entomology, 2014, 1;51(6):1312-6; doi:10.1603/ME13197.

Presentations at Conferences / Meetings

• Durmaz E, Kerdaffrec E, Flatt T. “The forces maintaining a balanced inversion polymorphism”, ESEB 2022, August 2022, Prague, Czech Republic – poster presentation

• Durmaz E, Kerdaffrec E, Flatt T. Experimental Evolution of an Adaptive Inversion Polymorphism, Evolution 2021, June 2021, USA / online – oral presentation

• Kerdaffrec E, Durmaz E, Katsianis G, Flatt T. Testing evolutionary forces maintaining a clinal inversion polymorphism, Evolution 2021, June 2021, USA / online – contribution, oral presentation

• Durmaz E, Kerdaffrec E, Flatt T. Experimental Evolution of an Adaptive Inversion Polymorphism, 62nd Annual Drosophila Research Conference, March 2021, Genetic Society of America, USA / online – poster presentation

• Durmaz E. The DrosEU phenotyping collaboration, A community-based approach to understanding Drosophila Evolution through Space and Time (DEST) Workshop, 62nd Annual Drosophila Research Conference, March 2021, Genetic Society of America, USA / online – invited speaker, oral presentation

• Durmaz E. Patterns of Clinal adaptation in Drosophila, Behaviour, Ecology, Environment and Evolution Seminar, University of Zurich, March 2021, Zurich, Switzerland / online – invited speaker

• Durmaz E. Drosophila’da enlemsel klinler ve adaptasyon (in Turkish), University of Hacettepe, Department of Biology, January 2021, Ankara, Turkey / online – invited guest lecturer for Genetics

• Kerdaffrec E, Durmaz E, Katsianis G, Flatt T. Testing evolutionary forces maintaining a clinal inversion polymorphism, The Swiss Conference for Organismic Biology 2020, February 2020, Fribourg, Switzerland – contribution, oral presentation

• Durmaz E. Clinal adaptation in Drosophila, 14th Aykut Kence Evolution Conference, January 2020, Ankara, Turkey – invited speaker for academic session

• Durmaz E. Adaptasyon genetigi (in Turkish), 14th Aykut Kence Evolution Conference, January 2020, Ankara, Turkey – invited speaker for public session

• Durmaz E, Kerdaffrec E, Katsianis G, Flatt T. Testing evolutionary forces maintaining a clinal inversion polymorphism, European Drosophila Research Conference (EDRC), September 2019, Lausanne, Switzerland – poster presentation

• Demir E, Yagli SS, Durmaz E, Onder BS. Seasonal immune response in a Drosophila melanogaster population, The Congress of the European Society for Evolutionary Biology (ESEB), August 2019, Turku, Finland – contribution, poster presentation

• Durmaz E, Kerdaffrec E, Katsianis G, Flatt T. Testing evolutionary forces maintaining a clinal inversion polymorphism, The Congress of the European Society for Evolutionary Biology (ESEB), August 2019, Turku, Finland – poster presentation

• Durmaz E, Benson C, Kapun M, Schmidt P, Flatt T. An inversion supergene in Drosophila underpins latitudinal clines in survival traits, The Swiss Conference for Organismic Biology 2019, February 2019, Zurich, Switzlerland – poster presentation

• Durmaz E. A clinal polymorphism at foxo contributes to life-history adaptation in Drosophila, Society of Molecular Biology and Evolution (SMBE) Satellite Meeting, February 2019, Vienna, Austria – oral presentation (cancelled)

• Durmaz E. The effects of clinal polymorphisms on Drosophila life history, University of Hacettepe, Department of Biology, January 2019, Ankara, Turkey / online – invited guest lecturer for Genetics

• Durmaz E, Benson C, Kapun M, Schmidt PS, Thomas F. A clinal inversion in Drosophila represents a life-history supergene, II Joint Congress on Evolutionary Biology, August 2018, Montpellier, France – poster presentation

• Durmaz E, Benson C, Kapun M, Schmidt PS, Thomas F. A clinal inversion in Drosophila represents a life-history supergene, Ecology and Evolutionary Biology Symposium, July 2018, Izmir, Turkey – oral presentation

• Durmaz E, Benson C, Kapun M, Schmidt PS, Thomas F. Effects of a clinal inversion on thermal life-history reaction norms in Drosophila melanogaster 16th Congress of the European Society for Evolutionary Biology (ESEB), August 2017, Groningen, Netherlands – poster presentation

• Durmaz E, Rajpurohit S, Betancourt N, Schmidt PS, Thomas F. A clinal polymorphism in insulin signaling has pleiotropic effects on Drosophila life history Evolution Meeting, June 2016, Austin, Texas, USA – oral presentation

• Durmaz E, Rajpurohit S, Betancourt N, Schmidt PS, Thomas F. A clinal polymorphism in insulin signaling has major pleiotropic effects on Drosophila life history The Swiss Conference for Organismic Biology 2016, February 2016, Lausanne, Switzerland – poster presentation

• Durmaz E, Rajpurohit S, Betancourt N, Schmidt PS, Thomas F. A clinal polymorphism in insulin signaling has major pleiotropic effects on Drosophila life history, European Society for Evolutionary Biology (ESEB) XV meeting, August 2015, Lausanne, Switzerland – oral presentation

• Durmaz E, Rajpurohit S, Betancourt N, Schmidt PS, Thomas F. A clinal polymorphism in insulin signaling has major pleiotropic effects on Drosophila life history, Swiss Drosophila Meeting, 2015 April, Lausanne, Switzerland – poster presentation

• Durmaz E, Rajpurohit S, Betancourt N, Schmidt PS, Thomas F. Testing the Life History Effects of SNP Polymorphisms as Identified by an NGS Analysis of a Latitudinal Cline in Drosophila, Eukaryotic –Omics: Exploring and testing with next-generation sequencing, April 2014, Geneva, Switzerland – oral presentation

• Hiroto Kameyama H, Durmaz E, Hanna G, Markow T. Sperm length predicts female sperm loads in Drosophila species in the wild, 54th Annual Drosophila Research Conference, April 2013 Washington, DC. USA – contribution, poster presentation

• Durmaz E, Ozsoy E, Markow T. The effect of mating status on environmental stress factors in genetically different natural populations of Drosophila subobscura (Drosophilidae, Diptera), 21th National Congress of Biology, September 2012, Izmir, Turkey – poster presentation

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