I am interested in the evolution and speciation in organisms, particularly in phylogeny, phylogeography, and population genetics. My work centers mainly on reptiles and amphibians, and one of my current projects is the conservation genetics of the Blue Mountains water skink (Eulamprus leuraensis), including the study of sex-biased dispersal and sexual competition.

Publications

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1.	Pellet J, Dubey S, Hoen S (2002) The amphibians of the watershed of the Aubonne river (Switzerland): distribution and habitat analysis. Bull. Soc. vaud. Sc. nat. 88.1: 41-57.
2.	Dubey S, Zaitsev M, Cosson J-F, Abdukadier A, Vogel P (2006) Pliocene and Pleistocene diversification and multiple refugia in an Eurasian shrew (Crocidura suaveolens group). Mol. Phylogenet. Evol. 38: 645-647. 10.1016/j.ympev.2005.11.005
3.	Berset-Bräendli L, Jaquieri J, Dubey S, Perrin N (2006) A sex-specific marker reveals male heterogamety in European treefrogs. Mol. Biol. Evol. 23:1104-1106. 10.1093/molbev/msk011
4.	Vogel P, Mehmeti AM, Dubey S, Vogel-Gerber C, Koyasu K, Ribi M (2006) Habitat, morphology and karyotype of the Saharan shrew Crocidura tarfayaensis (Mammalia: Soricidae). Acta Theriol. 51: 353-362.
5.	Dubey S, Ursenbacher S, Fumagalli L (2006) Origin of tree frog (Hyla spp.) populations in western Switzerland. Rev. suisse Zool. 113: 879-887.
6.	Dubey S, Salamin N, Ohdachi SD, Barrière P, Vogel P (2007) Molecular phylogenetics of Soricidae (Mammalia, Eulipotyphla) reveals timing of transcontinental colonisations. Mol. Phylogenet. Evol. 44: 126-137. 10.1016/j.ympev.2006.12.002
7.	Dubey S, Nová P, Vogel P,  Vohralík V (2007) Cytogenetic and molecular relationships between zarudny’s rock shrew, Crocidura zarudnyi (Mammalia: Eulipotyphla) and Eurasian taxa. J. Mammal. 88: 706-711. 10.1644/05-MAMM-A-409R.1
8.	Dubey S, Cosson J-F, Vohralik V, Krystufek B, Diker E, Vogel P (2007) Molecular evidence of Pleistocene bidirectional faunal exchange between Europe and the Near East: the case of the bicolored shrew (Crocidura leucodon, Soricidae). J. Evol. Biol. 20: 1799-1808. 10.1111/j.1420-9101.2007.01382.x
9.	Dubey S, Cosson J-F, Magnanou E, Vohralík V, Hutterer R, Vogel P (2007) Mediterranean populations of the Lesser white-toothed shrew (Crocidura suaveolens group): an unexpected puzzle of Pleistocene survivors and prehistoric introductions. Mol. Ecol. 16: 3438–3452. 10.1111/j.1365-294X.2007.03396.x
10.	Dubey S, Antonin M, Denys C, Vogel P (2007) Use of phylogeny to resolve the taxonomy of the widespread and highly polymorphic African giant shrews (C. olivieri group, Crocidurinae, Mammalia). Zoology 110: 48-57. 10.1016/j.zool.2006.05.003
11.	Dubey S, Brown GP, Madsen T, Shine R (2008) Characterization of tri- and tetranucleotide microsatellite loci for the slatey grey snake (Stegonotus cucullatus, Colubridae). Mol. Ecol. Resources 8: 431-433. 10.1111/j.1471-8286.2007.01982.x
12.	Dubey S, Kazuhiro K, Parapanov R, Ribi M, Hutterer R, Vogel P (2008) Molecular phylogenetics reveal Messinian, Pliocene and Pleistocene colonizations of islands by North African shrews. Mol. Phylogenet. Evol. 47: 877-882. 10.1016/j.ympev.2007.12.014
13.	Dubey S, Diker E, Kurtonur C, Vogel P (2008) Secondary contact zones and hybridizations: the case of the lesser white-toothed shrew (Crocidura suaveolens group, Soricidae). Biol. J. Linn. Soc. 95: 557-565. 10.1111/j.1095-8312.2008.01070.x
14.	Dubey S, Brown GP, Madsen T, Shine R (2008) Male-biased dispersal in a tropical Australian snake (Stegonotus cucullatus, Colubridae). Mol. Ecol. 17: 3506-3514. 10.1111/j.1365-294X.2008.03859.x
15.	Dubey S, Salamin N, Ruedi M, Barrière P, Colyn M, Vogel P (2008) Biogeographic origin and radiation of the Old World crocidurine shrews (Mammalia: Soricidae) inferred from mitochondrial and nuclear genes. Mol. Phylogenet. Evol. 48: 953-963. 10.1016/j.ympev.2008.07.002
16.	Dubey S, and Shine R (2008) Origin of the parasites of an invading species, the Australian cane toad (Bufo marinus): are the lungworms Australian or American? Mol. Ecol. 17: 4418-4424. 10.1111/j.1365-294X.2008.03922.x
17.	Dubey S, Ursenbacher S, Pellet J, and Fumagalli L (2009) Genetic differentiation in two European tree frog (Hyla arborea) metapopulations in contrasted landscapes of Western Switzerland. Amphibia-Reptilia 30:127-133. 10.1163/156853809787392775
18.	Stöck M, Dubey S, Klütsch C, Litvinchuk S, Scheidt U, Perrin N (2008) Mitochondrial and nuclear phylogeny of circum-Mediterranean tree frogs from the Hyla arborea group. Mol. Phylogenet. Evol. 49:1019-1024. 10.1016/j.ympev.2008.08.029
19.	Dubey S, Brown GP, Madsen T, Shine R (2009) Sexual selection favours large body size in males of a tropical snake (Stegonotus cucullatus, Colubridae). Anim. Behav. 77: 177-182. 10.1016/j.anbehav.2008.09.037
20.	Dubey S, Michaux J, Brünner H, Hutterer R, Vogel P (2009) False phylogenies on wood mice due to cryptic cytochrome-b pseudogene. Mol. Phylogenet. Evol. 50:633-641. 10.1016/j.ympev.2008.12.008.
21.	Bruyndonckx N, Dubey S, Ruedi M, Christe P (2009) Molecular cophylogenetic relationships between European bats and their mites (Acari, Spinturnicidae). Mol. Phylogenet. Evol. 51:227-237. 10.1016/j.ympev.2009.02.005
22.	Emaresi G, Pellet J, Hirzel AH, Dubey S, Fumagalli L (2009) Landscape genetics of the Alpine newt (Mesotriton alpestris) inferred from a strip-based approach. Conserv. Genet. 10.1007/s10592-009-9985-y

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Awards

2007. Prize awarded by the Faculty of Biology and Medicine of the University of Lausanne, Lausanne, Switzerland, for the publications and the work of my PhD.