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Personal profile
Biography
2020: Lecturer in Marine Biology, University of Aberdeen
2019-2020: Postdoctoral Fellow, Ocean Frontier Institute/Memorial University of Newfoundland
2015-2018: PhD (Marine Biology), University of Western Australia
2010-2013: MSc (Integrative Biology), University of Guelph
2005-2009: BSc (Marine & Freshwater Biology), University of Guelph
Research Interests:
I am a marine biologist using field and museum collections along with genomic tools to investigate biodiversity and evolution in our oceans, with a particular focus on marine invertebrates and salmonids. My research interests span macroevolutionary patterns to microevolutionary processes, incorporating themes from molecular ecology, phylogenomics, systematics, evolutionary biology and conservation genetics. I am particularly interested in investigating the genomic basis of warning colouration and mimicry in marine molluscs, as well as predicting climate-linked biodiversity loss in our oceans.
External positions
Research Associate (Aquatic Zoology), Western Australian Museum
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Research Output
- 174 Citations
- 11 Article
Model-based evaluation of the genetic impacts of farm-escaped Atlantic salmon on wild populations
Bradbury, I. R., Duffy, S., Lehnert, S., Johannsson, R., Fridriksson, J. H., Castellani, M., Burgetz, I., Sylvester, E., Messmer, A., Layton, K., Kelly, N., Dempson, J. B. & Fleming, I., 2020, In : Aquaculture Environment Interactions. 12, p. 45-59 15 p.Research output: Contribution to journal › Article
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Resolving fine-scale population structure and fishery exploitation using sequenced microsatellites in a northern fish
Layton, K. K. S., Dempson, B., Snelgrove, P. V. R., Duffy, S. J., Messmer, A. M., Paterson, I. G., Jeffery, N. W., Kess, T., Horne, J. B., Salisbury, S. J., Ruzzante, D. E., Bentzen, P., Côté, D., Nugent, C. M., Ferguson, M. M., Leong, J. S., Koop, B. F. & Bradbury, I. R., May 2020, In : Evolutionary Applications. 13, 5, p. 1055-1068 14 p.Research output: Contribution to journal › Article
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A newly discovered radiation of endoparasitic gastropods and their coevolution with asteroid hosts in Antarctica
Layton, K. K. S., Rouse, G. W. & Wilson, N. G., Sep 2019, In : BMC Evolutionary Biology. 19, 1, 15 p., 180.Research output: Contribution to journal › Article
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A reference library for Canadian invertebrates with 1.5 million barcodes, voucher specimens, and DNA samples
deWaard, J. R., Ratnasingham, S., Zakharov, E. V., Borisenko, A. V., Steinke, D., Telfer, A. C., Perez, K. H. J., Sones, J. E., Young, M. R., Levesque-Beaudin, V., Sobel, C. N., Abrahamyan, A., Bessonov, K., Blagoev, G., deWaard, S. L., Ho, C., Ivanova, N. V., Layton, K. K. S., Lu, L., Manjunath, R. & 12 others, , 6 Dec 2019, In : Scientific Data. 6, 12 p., 308.Research output: Contribution to journal › Article
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Erecting a new family for Spirostyliferina, a truncatelloidean microgastropod, and further insights into truncatelloidean phylogeny
Layton, K. K. S., Middelfart, P. U., Tatarnic, N. J. & Wilson, N. G., Nov 2019, In : Zoologica Scripta. 48, 6, p. 727-744 18 p.Research output: Contribution to journal › Article