Publications

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Publication ethic: As a main author (first or senior author), I only publish in non-profit journals. My DAFNEE user index is 100% (see here for details).

In green are papers published and led by students.

Published papers


13) Salony, S., Clo, J., Vallejo-Marin, M., Kolář, F. Establishment of spontaneous neo-autotetraploids Mimulus guttatus. Plant Systematics and Evolution, accepted.


12) Le Rouzic, A., Roumet, M., Widmer A., Clo, J. 2024. Detecting directional epistasis and dominance from cross-line analyses in alpine populations of Arabidopsis thaliana. Journal of Evolutionary Biology, 37(7), 839-847. Article, preprint and data.


11) Padilla-Garcia, N., Sramkova, G., Zaveska, E., Slenker, M., Clo, J., Zeisek, V., Lucanova, M., Rurane, I., Kolar, F., Marhold, K. 2023. The importance of considering the evolutionary history of polyploids when assessing climatic niche evolution. Journal of Biogeography, 50, 86-100. Article, data, preprint.


10) Clo, J., Kolář, F. 2022. Inbreeding depression in polyploid species: a meta-analysis. Biology Letters, 18: 20220477. Article, data, preprint.


9) Clo, J. 2022. Polyploidization: Consequences of genome doubling on the evolutionary potential of populations. American Journal of Botany, 109(8), 1213-1220. Article.


8) Clo, J., Padilla-García, N., Kolář, F. 2022. Polyploidization as an opportunistic mutation: the role of unreduced gametes formation and genetic drift in polyploid establishment.  Journal of Evolutionary Biology, 35(8), 1099-1109. Article and Code.


7) Clo, J. 2022. The evolution of the additive variance of a quantitative trait under stabilizing selection after polyploidization. Journal of Evolutionary Biology, 35(6), 891-897. Article and code.


6) Clo, J., Kolář, F. 2021. Short- and long-term consequences of genome doubling: a meta-analysis. American Journal of Botany, 108, 2315-2322. Article and data.


5) Clo, J., Ronfort, J. & Gay, L. 2021. Fitness consequences of hybridization between natural inbred lines of the selfing species Medicago truncatula: investigating the role of dominance and genetic incompatibilities. Heredity, 127, 393-400. Article and data.


4) Clo, J. & Opedal, Ø. 2021. Genetics of quantitative traits with dominance under stabilizing and directional selection in partially selfing species. Evolution, 75(8), 1920-1935. Article and code.


3) Clo, J., J. Ronfort & D. Abu Awad. 2020. Hidden genetic variance contributes to increase the short-term adaptive potential of selfing populations. Journal of Evolutionary Biology, 33(9), 1203-1215. Article and code.


2) Clo, J., L. Gay & J. Ronfort. 2019. How does selfing affect the genetic variance of quantitative traits? An updated meta-analysis on empirical results in angiosperm species. Evolution, 73(8), 1578-1590. Article and data.


1) Clo, J. 2018. Digest: How mutational bias could explain the maintenance of sex. Evolution, 72(9), 1970-1971.  Article.

Peer-reviewed book chapters

2) Clo, J. 2023. Self-fertilizing populations and adaptation. eLS. Paper.


1) Sztepanacz, J., Clo, J., Opedal, Ø. 2023. Evolvability, sexual selection and reproductive strategies. Evolvability: A Unifying Concept in Evolutionary Biology by T. Hansen, C. Pélabon, M. Pavlicev and D. Houle. Paper, data.

Preprints & Submitted

Opedal, Ø. & Clo, J. Does selfing lead to reduced adaptive potential? Towards a quantitative genetics research program on plant mating systems. Under revision in American Journal of Botany.

Takou, M., Balick, D., Steige, K., Clo, J., Dittberner, H., Göbel, U., Schielzeth, H., de Meaux, J. Strength of purifying selection on the amino-acid sequence is associated with the amount of non-additive variance in gene expression. Under review in MBE. 

Salony, S., Clo, J., Kolář, F., Lafon-Placette, C. Varying importance of postzygotic isolation in polyploid speciation? A survey of the triploid block strength, its causal mechanisms, and evolutionary consequences. Under review in Journal of Experimental Botany.

Works in progress


Clo, J., Abu Awad, D., Bilde, T., Boccedi, G., Haag, C., Pannell, J., Hartfiled, M. Perspectives on mating-system evolution: comparing concepts in plants and animals. Target journal: Journal of Evolutionary Biology.

Cheng, Y., Schmickl, R., Kolář, F., Clo, J. The effect of pleiotropy on unreduced gametes production and the evolution of polyploidy. Target journal: Heredity.

Clo, J., Abu Awad, A. Genome size evolution is modulated by the selfing rate.

Legrand, S., Clo, J., Castric, V. Selfing and the evolution of transposable elements. Target journal: Plant Cell Physiology.