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A backbone of my research has always been the ongoing long-term study of great reed warblers that we have carried out at lake Kvismaren since 1983. Over the years we have explored many questions including sexual selection, mating systems, adaptive sex ratios, territory quality, dispersal, inbreeding and outbreeding costs. My present research is centered in the field of Molecular Ecology with projects including population genetics and genomics of migratory song birds, conservation genetics of the Scandinavian wolf population and host-parasite evolution of avian malaria parasites.
2004-present Professor at Department of Animal Ecology, Lund University (Sweden)
2001-2004 Associate Professor at Department of Animal Ecology, Lund University
1997-2000 Assistant Professor at Department of Animal Ecology, Lund University
1994-1995 Post-doc at University of California, San Diego (USA)
1988-1993 PhD at Department of Animal Ecology, Lund University (Sweden)
Bensch, S., Stjernman, M., Hasselquist, D., Östman, Ö., Hansson, B., Westerdahl, H. & Torres-Pinheiro, R. 2000. Host specificity in avian blood parasites: a study of Plasmodium and Haemoproteus mitochondrial DNA amplified from birds. Proc. R. Soc. Lond. B. 267: 1583-1589.
Bensch, S., Åkesson, S. & Irwin, D. 2002. The use of AFLP to find an informative SNP: genetic differences across a migratory divide in willow warblers. Molecular Ecology 11: 2359-2366.
Malmqvist, B., Strasevicius,D., Hellgren, O. Adler, P. S. & Bensch, S. 2004. Vertebrate host specificity of wild-caught blackflies revealed by mtDNA in blood. Proc. R. Soc. Lond. B. (Suppl.) 271: S152-S155.
Bensch, S., Pérez-Tris, J., Waldenström, J. & Hellgren, O. 2004. Linkage between nuclear and mitochondrial DNA sequences in avian malaria parasites – multiple cases of cryptic speciation? Evolution 58: 1617-1621.
Irwin, D. I., Bensch, S., Irwin, J. H. & Price, T.2005. Speciation by distance in a ring species. Science 307: 414-416.
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