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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
- 236 Citations
- 17 Article
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Genomic evidence of past and future climate-linked loss in a migratory Arctic fish
Layton, K., Snelgrove, P., Dempson, J. B., Kess, T., Lehnert, S., Bentzen, P., Duffy, S., Messmer, A., Stanley, R., DiBacco, C., Salisbury, S., Ruzzante, D., Nugent, C., Ferguson, M., Leong, J., Koop, B. & Bradbury, I., Feb 2021, In: Nature Climate Change. 11, 2, p. 158-165 8 p.Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review
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Life in a drop: Sampling environmental DNA for marine fishery management and ecosystem monitoring
Gilbey, J., Carvalho, G., Castilho, R., Cosica, I., Coulson, M., Dahle, G., Derycke, S., Francisco, S., Heylar, S., Johansen, T., Junge, C., Layton, K., Martinsohn, J., Matejusova, I., Robalo, J., Rodríguez-Ezpeleta, N., Silva, G., Strammer, I., Vasemagi, A. & Volckaert, F., Feb 2021, In: Marine Policy. 124, 9 p., 104331.Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review
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Limited genetic parallelism underlies recent, repeated incipient speciation in geographically proximate populations of an Arctic fish (Salvelinus alpinus)
Salisbury, S. J., McCracken, G. R., Perry, R., Keefe, D., Layton, K., Kess, T., Nugent, C. M., Leong, J. S., Bradbury, I. R., Koop, B. F., Ferguson, M. M. & Ruzzante, D. E., Nov 2020, In: Molecular Ecology. 29, 22, p. 4280-4294 15 p.Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review
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Mimicry and mitonuclear discordance in nudibranchs: new insights from exon capture phylogenomics
Layton, K. K. S., Carvajal, J. I. & Wilson, N. G., Nov 2020, In: Ecology and Evolution. 10, 21, p. 11966-11982 17 p.Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review
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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 › peer-review
Open AccessFile8 Citations (Scopus)