Vilde Bruhn Kinneberg

• Kinneberg, Vilde Bruhn & Voje, Kjetil L. (2025). Rate–time scaling in phenotypic evolution: Limitations of current models in capturing temporal dynamics. Evolution. ISSN 0014-3820. doi: 10.1093/evolut/qpaf208. Fulltekst i vitenarkiv Vis sammendrag

  Evolutionary rates correlate negatively with time, which makes it complicated to compare rates across lineages that have diversified on different time intervals. The causes of this correlation are debated. Using simulations, we first show that rates of evolution estimated as a parameter in the unbiased random walk model lack a rate–time scaling when data has been generated using this model, even when time series are made incomplete and biased. This indicates that it is theoretically possible to estimate rates that are not time correlated from empirical data. We then analyze 643 empirical time series to assess whether accounting for model misspecification, sampling error, and model identifiability reduces the negative scaling, but none appear to have a significant impact. This suggests that the rate–time correlation requires an explanation grounded in evolutionary biology and that common models used in phylogenetic comparative studies and phenotypic time series analyses often fail to accurately describe trait evolution in empirical data. Making meaningful comparisons of estimated rates between clades and lineages covering different time intervals remains a challenge.

• Kinneberg, Vilde Bruhn; Lü, Dabao Sun; Peris, David; Ravinet, Mark & Skrede, Inger (2023). Introgression between highly divergent fungal sister species. Journal of Evolutionary Biology. ISSN 1010-061X. 36(8), s. 1133–1149. doi: 10.1111/jeb.14190. Fulltekst i vitenarkiv Vis sammendrag

  Abstract To understand how species evolve and adapt to changing environments, it is important to study gene flow and introgression due to their influence on speciation and radiation events. Here, we apply a novel experimental system for investigating these mechanisms using natural populations. The system is based on two fungal sister species with morphological and ecological similarities occurring in overlapping habitats. We examined introgression between these species by conducting whole genome sequencing of individuals from populations in North America and Europe. We assessed genome-wide nucleotide divergence and performed crossing experiments to study reproductive barriers. We further used ABBA–BABA statistics together with a network analysis to investigate introgression, and conducted demographic modelling to gain insight into divergence times and introgression events. The results revealed that the species are highly divergent and incompatible in vitro. Despite this, small regions of introgression were scattered throughout the genomes and one introgression event likely involves a ghost population (extant or extinct). This study demonstrates that introgression can be found among divergent species and that population histories can be studied without collections of all the populations involved. Moreover, the experimental system is shown to be a useful tool for research on reproductive isolation in natural populations. Abstract We studied population histories with demographic modelling and found introgression between highly divergent fungal sister species, involving a ghost population.

• Voje, Kjetil L.; Saulsbury, James Gabriel; Starrfelt, Jostein; Latorre, Daniel Varajão; Rojas, Alexis & Kinneberg, Vilde Bruhn [Vis alle 10 forfattere av denne artikkelen] (2023). Measurement theory and paleobiology. Trends in Ecology & Evolution. ISSN 0169-5347. 38, s. 1165–1176. doi: 10.1016/j.tree.2023.08.005. Fulltekst i vitenarkiv Vis sammendrag

  Measurement theory, a branch of applied mathematics, offers guiding principles for extracting meaning from empirical observations and is applicable to any science involving measurements. Measurement theory is highly relevant in paleobiology because statistical approaches assuming ratio-scaled variables are commonly used on data belonging to nominal and ordinal scale types. We provide an informal introduction to representational measurement theory and argue for its importance in robust scientific inquiry. Although measurement theory is widely applicable in paleobiology research, we use the study of disparity to illustrate measurement theoretical challenges in the quantitative study of the fossil record. Respecting the inherent properties of different measurements enables meaningful inferences about evolutionary and ecological processes from paleontological data.

• Peris, David; Lü, Dabao Sun; Kinneberg, Vilde Bruhn; Methlie, Ine-Susanne Hopland; Dahl, Malin Stapnes & James, Timothy Y. [Vis alle 8 forfattere av denne artikkelen] (2022). Large-scale fungal strain sequencing unravels the molecular diversity in mating loci maintained by long-term balancing selection. PLoS Genetics. ISSN 1553-7390. 18(3). doi: 10.1371/journal.pgen.1010097. Fulltekst i vitenarkiv Vis sammendrag

  Balancing selection, an evolutionary force that retains genetic diversity, has been detected in multiple genes and organisms, such as the sexual mating loci in fungi. However, to quantify the strength of balancing selection and define the mating-related genes require a large number of strains. In tetrapolar basidiomycete fungi, sexual type is determined by two unlinked loci, MATA and MATB. Genes in both loci define mating type identity, control successful mating and completion of the life cycle. These loci are usually highly diverse. Previous studies have speculated, based on culture crosses, that species of the non-model genus Trichaptum (Hymenochaetales, Basidiomycota) possess a tetrapolar mating system, with multiple alleles. Here, we sequenced a hundred and eighty strains of three Trichaptum species. We characterized the chromosomal location of MATA and MATB, the molecular structure of MAT regions and their allelic richness. The sequencing effort was sufficient to molecularly characterize multiple MAT alleles segregating before the speciation event of Trichaptum species. Analyses suggested that long-term balancing selection has generated trans-species polymorphisms. Mating sequences were classified in different allelic classes based on an amino acid identity (AAI) threshold supported by phylogenetics. 17,550 mating types were predicted based on the allelic classes. In vitro crosses allowed us to support the degree of allelic divergence needed for successful mating. Even with the high amount of divergence, key amino acids in functional domains are conserved. We conclude that the genetic diversity of mating loci in Trichaptum is due to long-term balancing selection, with limited recombination and duplication activity. The large number of sequenced strains highlighted the importance of sequencing multiple individuals from different species to detect the mating-related genes, the mechanisms generating diversity and the evolutionary forces maintaining them.

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• Kinneberg, Vilde Bruhn (2025). Rate–time scaling in phenotypic evolution: Limitations of current models in capturing temporal dynamics. Fulltekst i vitenarkiv Vis sammendrag

  Evolutionary rates correlate negatively with time, which makes it complicated to compare rates across lineages that have diversified on different time intervals. The causes of this correlation are debated. Using simulations, we first show that rates of evolution estimated as a parameter in the unbiased random walk model lack a rate–time scaling when data has been generated using this model, even when time series are made incomplete and biased. This indicates that it is theoretically possible to estimate rates that are not time correlated from empirical data. We then analyze 643 empirical time series to assess whether accounting for model misspecification, sampling error, and model identifiability reduces the negative scaling, but none appear to have a significant impact. This suggests that the rate–time correlation requires an explanation grounded in evolutionary biology and that common models used in phylogenetic comparative studies and phenotypic time series analyses often fail to accurately describe trait evolution in empirical data. Making meaningful comparisons of estimated rates between clades and lineages covering different time intervals remains a challenge.

• Thaureau, Marion; Kinneberg, Vilde Bruhn & Voje, Kjetil L. (2024). Beyond the traditional three: Assessing relative model fit of several evolutionary models to fossil time series. Fulltekst i vitenarkiv
• Kinneberg, Vilde Bruhn (2022). Ancient introgression between highly divergent fungal sister species. Fulltekst i vitenarkiv
• Peris, David; Lü, Dabao Sun; Kinneberg, Vilde Bruhn; Methlie, Ine-Susanne Hopland; Dahl, Malin Stapnes & James, Timothy Y. [Vis alle 8 forfattere av denne artikkelen] (2022). Long-term balancing selection in a white-root fungi. Fulltekst i vitenarkiv
• Kinneberg, Vilde Bruhn; Lü, Dabao Sun; Peris, David; Ravinet, Mark & Skrede, Inger (2022). Ancient introgression between highly divergent fungal sister species. Fulltekst i vitenarkiv
• Navarro, David Peris; Lü, Dabao Sun; Kinneberg, Vilde Bruhn; Methlie, Ine-Susanne Hopland; James, Timothy & Kauserud, Håvard [Vis alle 7 forfattere av denne artikkelen] (2022). Ancient mating alleles maintained by balancing selection in basidiomycete fungi. Fulltekst i vitenarkiv

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