Thomas Flatt

9.3k total citations · 1 hit paper
86 papers, 5.7k citations indexed

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Thomas Flatt is a scholar working on Aging, Genetics and Ecology, Evolution, Behavior and Systematics. According to data from OpenAlex, Thomas Flatt has authored 86 papers receiving a total of 5.7k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 35 papers in Aging, 32 papers in Genetics and 27 papers in Ecology, Evolution, Behavior and Systematics. Recurrent topics in Thomas Flatt's work include Genetics, Aging, and Longevity in Model Organisms (35 papers), Animal Behavior and Reproduction (22 papers) and Neurobiology and Insect Physiology Research (20 papers). Thomas Flatt is often cited by papers focused on Genetics, Aging, and Longevity in Model Organisms (35 papers), Animal Behavior and Reproduction (22 papers) and Neurobiology and Insect Physiology Research (20 papers). Thomas Flatt collaborates with scholars based in Switzerland, United States and Austria. Thomas Flatt's co-authors include Marc Tatar, Martin Kapun, Andreas Heyland, Meng‐Ping Tu, Christian Schlötterer, Paul Schmidt, Daniel K. Fabian, Malene Hansen, Hugo Aguilaniu and Linda Partridge and has published in prestigious journals such as Science, Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences and SHILAP Revista de lepidopterología.

In The Last Decade

Thomas Flatt

85 papers receiving 5.6k citations

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Evolutionary genomics can improve prediction of species’ responses to climate change

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#	Work	Indexed citations
1	Multiple forms of balancing selection maintain inversion polymorphism 2025 ·Heredity ·Margot Paris, Esra Durmaz Mitchell, Envel Kerdaffrec, David Rubin, (unknown), (unknown), Jéfferson Becker, (unknown), (unknown), (unknown), F. Gagliardi, (unknown), (unknown), (unknown), (unknown), Jutta Bachmann, (unknown), Paul Schmidt, Thomas Flatt	0
2	From whole bodies to single cells: A guide to transcriptomic approaches for ecology and evolutionary biology 2024 ·Molecular Ecology ·Katja M. Hoedjes, Sonja Grath, Nico Posnien, Michael G. Ritchie, Christian Schlötterer, Jessica K. Abbott, Isabel Almudí, Marta Coronado‐Zamora, Esra Durmaz Mitchell, Thomas Flatt, Claudia Fricke, (unknown), Josefa González, Luke Holman, Maaria Kankare, (unknown), Dorcas J. Orengo, Rhonda R. Snook, (unknown), (unknown)	6
3	A Single Nucleotide Variant in the PPARγ-homolog Eip75B Affects Fecundity in Drosophila 2023 ·Molecular Biology and Evolution ·Katja M. Hoedjes, (unknown), Thomas Flatt, Laurent Keller	5
4	An Ancestral Balanced Inversion Polymorphism Confers Global Adaptation 2023 ·Molecular Biology and Evolution ·Martin Kapun, Esra Durmaz Mitchell, Tadeusz J. Kawecki, Paul Schmidt, Thomas Flatt	16
5	The remoulding of dietary effects on the fecundity / longevity trade-off in a social insect 2023 ·BMC Genomics ·(unknown), Thomas Flatt, Judith Korb	8
6	Germline proliferation trades off with lipid metabolism in Drosophila 2023 ·Evolution Letters ·Marisa A Rodrigues, Chantal Dauphin‐Villemant, Margot Paris, Martin Kapun, Esra Durmaz Mitchell, Envel Kerdaffrec, Thomas Flatt	5
7	Microbes are potential key players in the evolution of life histories and aging in Caenorhabditis elegans 2023 ·Ecology and Evolution ·(unknown), Margarida Matos, Thomas Flatt, Ivo M. Chelo	1
8	Natural alleles at the Doa locus underpin evolutionary changes in Drosophila lifespan and fecundity 2022 ·Proceedings of the Royal Society B Biological Sciences ·Katja M. Hoedjes, (unknown), Laurent Keller, Thomas Flatt	2
9	Genomic architecture of supergenes: connecting form and function 2022 ·Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society B Biological Sciences ·Emma L. Berdan, Thomas Flatt, Genevieve M. Kozak, Katie E. Lotterhos, Ben Wielstra	19
10	Allelic polymorphism at foxo contributes to local adaptation in Drosophila melanogaster 2021 ·Molecular Ecology ·(unknown), Subhash Rajpurohit, Esra Durmaz Mitchell, Daniel K. Fabian, Martin Kapun, Thomas Flatt, Paul Schmidt	7
11	Gene Coexpression Network Reveals Highly Conserved, Well-Regulated Anti-Ageing Mechanisms in Old Ant Queens 2021 ·Genome Biology and Evolution ·Mark C. Harrison, (unknown), Marisa A Rodrigues, (unknown), Thomas Flatt, Jan Oettler, Erich Bornberg‐Bauer	6
12	Comparative transcriptomic analysis of the mechanisms underpinning ageing and fecundity in social insects 2021 ·Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society B Biological Sciences ·Judith Korb, Karen Meusemann, (unknown), Abel Bernadou, D. Elsner, Barbara Feldmeyer, Susanne Foitzik, Jürgen Heınze, Romain Libbrecht, (unknown), (unknown), José Manuel Monroy Kuhn, Volker Nehring, (unknown), Robert J. Paxton, (unknown), (unknown), Thomas Flatt, (unknown)	43
13	On the fixation or nonfixation of inversions under epistatic selection 2021 ·Molecular Ecology ·Brian Charlesworth, Thomas Flatt	7
14	Distinct genomic signals of lifespan and life history evolution in response to postponed reproduction and larval diet inDrosophila 2019 ·Evolution Letters ·Katja M. Hoedjes, Joost van den Heuvel, Martin Kapun, Laurent Keller, Thomas Flatt, Bas J. Zwaan	15
15	Adaptation to developmental diet influences the response to selection on age at reproduction in the fruit fly 2019 ·Journal of Evolutionary Biology ·(unknown), Joost van den Heuvel, Agnieszka Doroszuk, Katja M. Hoedjes, Thomas Flatt, Bas J. Zwaan	14
16	A clinal polymorphism in the insulin signaling transcription factor foxo contributes to life‐history adaptation in Drosophila * 2019 ·Evolution ·Esra Durmaz Mitchell, Subhash Rajpurohit, (unknown), Daniel K. Fabian, Martin Kapun, Paul Schmidt, Thomas Flatt	16
17	Genomic Evidence for Adaptive Inversion Clines inDrosophila melanogaster 2016 ·Molecular Biology and Evolution ·Martin Kapun, Daniel K. Fabian, Jérôme Goudet, Thomas Flatt	114
18	Living Long and Well: Prospects for a Personalized Approach to the Medicine of Ageing 2015 ·Gerontology ·Georg Fuellen, Paul N. Schofield, Thomas Flatt, R. J. Schulz, Fritz Boege, Karin Kraft, Gerald Rimbach, Saleh Ibrahim, (unknown), Christian Schmidt, Rüdiger Köhling, Andreas Simm	7
19	Adaptation of Drosophila to a novel laboratory environment reveals temporally heterogeneous trajectories of selected alleles 2012 ·Molecular Ecology ·Pablo Orozco‐terWengel, Martin Kapun, Viola Nolte, Robert Kofler, Thomas Flatt, Christian Schlötterer	146
20	Counting calories in Drosophila diet restriction 2006 ·Experimental Gerontology ·Kyung Wan Min, Thomas Flatt, Indrek Külaots, Marc Tatar	76

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