Thomas Blankers
Assistant professor at the University of Amsterdam
Krapf, P., Blankers, T., Kulmuni, J., 2026. Do the benefits of hybridization outweigh the costs under conditions of global change? EcoEvoRxiv
Bisschop, K, Wortel, M. T., Kraaijeveld, K., Mariën, J., Rathmann, I., ... Blankers T. 2026. Additive effects of environmental and demographic variation shape the repeatability of evolution across replicated experiments. Evolution Letters: qrag017
Guerra, D., Blankers, T., Kraak, M. H. S., Burdfield-Steel, E. R. 2026. The Impact of Environmental Pollution on Dragonflies and Damselflies (Odonata) and the Role of Climate Change as an Interactive Stressor. Environmental Toxicology and Chemistry
Fruitet, E., De Jong, R., Blankers, T., Groot, A. T., Burdfield-Steel, E. R. 2026. Resource limitation reveals that high acetate levels in Heliothis subflexa sex pheromone blend are associated with reduced fitness. Journal of Evolutionary Biology 39: 137-147.
Verheggen, F., Allmann, S., Stopka, P., Pappas, M., Avila, C., Prado, S., Romano, G.; Blankers, T., Vanderplanck, M., Colazza, S., Bagnères, A.G., 2024. European chemical ecologists translate the language of life into sustainability. Entomologia Generalis 44: 477-478
Blankers, T., Shaw, K.L. 2024. The biogeographic and evolutionary processes shaping population divergence in Laupala. Molecular Ecology 33, e17444
Groot A. T, Blankers, T., Halfwerk, W., Burdfield-Steel, E. 2024. The Evolutionary Importance of Intraspecific Variation in Sexual Communication Across Sensory Modalities. Annual Reviews of Entomology 69:1
W. H. Waller, Blankers, T., Xu, M., Shaw, K.L. 2023. Quantitative trait loci underlying a speciation phenotype. Insect Molecular Biology 32:592-602
Wortel, M.T., Agashe, D., Bailey, S. F., Bank, C., Bisschop, K., Blankers, T., ... Pennings, P.S. 2023. Towards evolutionary predictions: current promises and challenges. Evolutionary Applications 16:3-21
Bisschop, K., Blankers, T., Mariën, J., Wortel, M.T., Egas, M., Groot, A.T., Visser, M.E. & Ellers, J. 2022. Population bottleneck has only marginal effect on fitness evolution and its repeatability in dioecious Caenorhabditis elegans. Evolution 76: 1896-1904
Blankers, T.; Fruitet, E.; Burdfield-Steel, E. & Groot, AT. 2022. Experimental evolution of a pheromone signal. Ecology and Evolution 12: e8941
Blankers, T.; Lievers, R; Plata, C; van Wijk, M; van Veldhuizen, D & Groot, AT. 2021. Sex pheromone signal and stability covary with fitness. Royal Society Open Science 8: 210180
Blankers, T., Oh, K.P. & Shaw, K.L. 2019. Parallel genomic architecture underlies repeated sexual signal divergence in Hawaiian Laupala crickets. Proc. Roy. Soc. B. 286: 20191479
Blankers, T., Berdan E.L., Hennig, R.M. & Mayer, F. 2019. Physical linkage and mate preference generate linkage disequilibrium for behavioral isolation in two paraptric field crickets. Evolution 73: 777–791
Blankers, T., Oh, K.P., Bombarely, A., & Shaw, K.L. 2018. The genomic architecture of a rapid island radiation: recombination rate variation, chromosome structure, and genome assembly of the Hawaiian cricket Laupala. Genetics 209: 1329–1344
Blankers, T., Oh, K.P. & Shaw, K.L. 2018. The genetics of a behavioral speciation phenotype in an island system. Genes 9: E346
Blankers, T., Block, R. & Hennig, R.M. 2018. Codivergence but limited covariance of wing shape and calling song structure in field crickets (Gryllus). Evol. Biol. 45: 144-155
Blankers, T., Vilaca, S.T., Waurick, I., Gray, D.A., Hennig, R.M., Mazzoni, C.J. & Mayer, F, Berdan, E.L. 2018. Demography and selection shape transcriptomic divergence in field crickets. Evolution 72: 553-567
Blankers, T., Gray, D.A. & Hennig, R.M. 2017. Multivariate phenotypic evolution: divergent acoustic signals and sexual selection in Gryllus field crickets. Evol. Biol. 44: 43-57
Gray, D.A., Blankers, T. & Hennig, R.M. 2016. Multivariate female preference tests reveal latent perceptual biases. Proc. Roy. Soc. B: Biol. Sci. 283: 1842
Blankers T. 2016. Acoustic communication, sexual selection, and speciation in field crickets. Phd Thesis. https://edoc.hu-berlin.de/handle/18452/18205
Berdan, E.L., Blankers, T., Waurick, I., Mazzoni, C.J., & Mayer, F. 2016. A genes eye view of ontogeny: De novo assembly and profiling of the Gryllus rubens transcriptome. Mol. Ecol. Res. 16:1478-1490
Hennig, R.M., Blankers, T. & Gray, D.A. 2016. Divergence in male cricket song and female preference functions in three allopatric sister species. J. Comp. Phys. A. 202:347-60
Blankers, T., Lübke, A.K. & Hennig, R.M. 2015. Phenotypic variation and covariation indicate high evolvability of acoustic communication in crickets. J. Evol. Biol. 28: 1656-1669
Blankers, T., Hennig, R.M. & Gray, D.A. 2015. Conservation of multivariate female preference functions and preference mechanisms in three species of trilling field crickets. J. Evol. Biol. 28: 630–641
Blankers, T., Townsend, T.M., Pepe, K., Reeder, T.W. & Wiens, J.J. 2013. Contrasting global-scale evolutionary radiations: Phylogeny, diversification, and morphological evolution in the major clades of iguanian lizards. Biol. J. Linn. Soc. 108: 127–143
Blankers, T., Adams, D.C. & Wiens, J.J. 2012. Ecological radiation with limited morphological diversification in salamanders. J. Evol. Biol. 25: 634–646