Sam Fenton

new paper out (the "big" PhD chapter) led by @thefentagon.bsky.social Sam Fenton shows how conservation risk varies across locations and the first broad scale assessment of the high diversity of Scotland's Arctic charr.

Delineation of conservation units and assessments of pop. vulnerability are key to protection of intraspecific diversity. A new study shows why multiple vulnerability measures and accounting for high levels of population differentiation are key to Arctic charr conservation 🐟 @thefentagon.bsky.social

Defining Conservation Units in a Highly Diverse Species: A Case on Arctic Charr Defining appropriate conservation units is crucial to the protection and management of biodiversity. These delineations deliver further benefit when they include assessments of population vulnerabili...

A bit of holiday reading! I'm excited that my latest paper is now published in @evolappjournal.bsky.social! Read as we explore the delineation of conservation units and assessments of vulnerability in highly diverse species (doi.org/10.1111/eva....)

The historical patterns that have shaped contemporary genetic differentiation across populations of Arctic charr in Scotland Glacial history is an important contributor to contemporary biogeographic patterns because it caused population fragmentation and consequently diversification. The Arctic charr (Salvelinus alpinus) is...

New pre-print available (doi.org/10.1101/2025...)! We explore the colonisation history of Arctic charr in Scotland uncovering several distinct sub-lineages and patterns influenced by asynchronous ice coverage at the end of the last ice age!

Defining conservation units in a highly diverse species: A case on Arctic charr Defining appropriate conservation units is crucial to the protection and management of biodiversity. These delineations deliver further benefit when they encompass assessments of population vulnerabil...

Excited that the latest work from my PhD is available as a pre-print! (doi.org/10.1101/2025...)
We explore the challenges in delineating conservation units within highly diverse species using the salmonid species Arctic charr as a study system!

💡 Dr Sam Fenton @thefentagon.bsky.social is a population geneticist who joined the lab in 11/2024. Having previously worked on a range of different systems, his work in the group focuses on using #wholegenomesequencing #WGS to test the efficacy of drugs tackling #Onchocerciasis (#RiverBlindness)🌟

We are hiring a postdoc to work on a data-rich evolutionary genomics project about origins & maintenance of viviparity vs oviparity. Details in advert and evoldir. @physiologyuog.bsky.social @uofgsbohvm.bsky.social @uofgmvls.bsky.social @sse-evolution.bsky.social @eseb.bsky.social please re-sky!

Ecological opportunity leads to higher diversity and probability of trophic specialization in Arctic charr Abstract. Understanding the extrinsic factors that drive the emergence of biological diversity is critical to its protection and management. However, even

Interested in learning about what environmental factors are key to facilitating higher levels of phenotypic and genetic diversity? Then check out the most recent paper from my PhD (doi.org/10.1093/evol...) where we explored the importance of ecological opportunity in the diversity of Arctic charr!