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Publications

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• Cetnarowska, A., Hyldahl, M., Nygård, M., Dashti, H., Hansen, B. V., Holm, L., Madsen, K., Madsen, M., Shukla, V., Durmaz Mitchell, E., Rauch, A., Madsen, J., Claussnitzer, M., & Mandrup, S. Extensive enhancer crosstalk controls PPARG2 activation during adipogenesis in press, Nature Communications.

• Núñez, J. C. B., Coronado-Zamora, M., Gautier, M., … Kerdaffrec, E., Durmaz Mitchell, E., … Flatt, T., Bergland, A. O., & González, J. (2025). Footprints of worldwide adaptation in structured populations of Drosophila melanogaster through the expanded DEST 2.0 genomic resource. Molecular Biology and Evolution, 42(8), msaf132. doi.org/10.1093/molbev/msaf132

• Durmaz Mitchell E., Kerdaffrec E., Schmidt P., Flatt T., & Kittelmann S. (2025) A balanced inversion polymorphism exhibits a dominance reversal at the gene expression level that depends on developmental context. Mol. Biol. Evol. 42(9): msaf209. doi.org/10.1093/molbev/msaf209

• Durmaz Mitchell, E., Kerdaffrec, E., Harney, E., et al. (2025) Continent-wide differentiation of fitness traits and patterns of climate adaptation among European populations of Drosophila melanogaster. Evolution Letters, 9(4): 473–490. doi.org/10.1093/evlett/qraf014

• Paris, M., Durmaz Mitchell, E., Kerdaffrec, E. et al. Multiple forms of balancing selection maintain inversion polymorphism. Heredity (2025). doi.org/10.1038/s41437-025-00780-y

• Rodrigues MA, Dauphin-Villemant, C Paris M, Kapun M, Durmaz Mitchell E, Kerdaffrec E, Flatt T. “Germline proliferation trades off with lipid metabolism in Drosophila”, Evolution Letters, 2024; doi.org/10.1093/evlett/qrad059.

• Berdan EL, Barton NH, Butlin R, Charlesworth B, Faria R, Fragata I, Gilbert KJ, Jay P, Kapun M, Lotterhos K E, Mérot C, Durmaz Mitchell E, Pascual M, Peichel CL, Rafajlović M, Westram AM, Schaeffer SW, Johannesson K, & Flatt T (2023). “How chromosomal inversions reorient the evolutionary process”, Journal of Evolutionary Biology, 36, 1761–1782; doi.org/10.1111/jeb.14242.

• Kapun M, Durmaz Mitchell E, Kawecki T, Schmidt P, Flatt T. “An ancestral balanced inversion polymorphism confers global adaptation”, Molecular Biology and Evolution, 2023; doi.org/10.1093/molbev/msad118

• 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.

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