The Leibniz Institute for the Analysis of Biodiversity Change

is a research museum of the Leibniz Association

Chair "Molecular Biodiversity Research"

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The head of the Centre of Molecular Biodiversity Research (zmb), also holds the chair for Molecular Biodiversity Research at the University of Bonn.

Staff

Ph.D. student

Panagiotis Provataris

PhD Student

Tel: +49 228 9122-407

Fax: +49 228 9122-212

E-Mail: panosprov [at] gmail.com

Pracheta Rana

Tel: +49 228 9122-421

Fax: +49 228 9122-212

E-Mail: prachetasrana [at] gmail.com

Alexandros Vasilikopoulos

PhD Student

Tel: +49 228 9122-407

Fax: +49 228 9122-212

E-Mail: alexvasilikop [at] gmail.com

MSc or Diploma Candidate

Peter T. Rühr

Master-Student

Tel: +49 228 9122-247

Fax: +49 228 9122-212

E-Mail: peter.ruehr [at] gmail.com

Alumni

Former staff members

Dr. Harald Letsch

E-Mail: info [at] zfmk.de

Projects

2018

Non-destructive morphological studies of old museum samples using modern techniques

The aim of this project is to use modern non-destructive techniques in order to asses important museum material. Traditionally, the preparation of the genitalia or other parts of the inner anatomy would require the preparation and thus the partial destruction of the sample which is often not possible with important type material. We avoid this by using approaches like µ-computed tomography to visualize the inner parts of these specimens in a non-invasive way.

Project lead:

Dr. Marianne Espeland

Funding:

Zoological Research Museum Alexander Koenig

2017

Evolution of Dexiarchia

The sea slugs of the subgroup Dexiarchia comprise at least 2,000 different species and many more undescribed members. Until today there exists no phylogenetic analysis of Dexiarchia that comprises all major families and corroborates the relationships within this group, which is the aim of our project.

Project lead:

Dr. Alexander Donath

Funding:

Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft

2016

Leibniz-Sonderausstellung: 8 Objekte, 8 Museen

Leibniz-Forschungsmuseen stellen erstmals gemeinsam aus: Das Museum Koenig wird vom 08.11.2016 bis zum 30.06.2017 (ebenso wie die anderen sieben Museen der Leibniz-Gemeinschaft) die Sonderausstellung „8 Objekte 8 Museen“ der Leibniz-Gemeinschaft präsentieren.

Project lead:

Björn Rulik

Funding:

Leibniz Association, Zoological Research Museum Alexander Koenig

3D AMP

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Project lead:

Jörg Adrian

2014

Countering Systematic Bias in Phylogenetics

PhyQuart, a new algorithm combining Hennigian logic and Maximum Likelihood estimation, represents a completely new strategy for the evaluation of molecular data based on a site pattern classification for quartets of aligned sequences.

Project lead:

Dr. Patrick Kück

Funding:

Zoological Research Museum Alexander Koenig, European Union

Island speciation within the…

Landsnails of the genus Theba show an endemic radiation on the Canary Islands and the adjacent West African Continent.

Project lead:

Prof. Dr. Bernhard Misof

2013

GFBio

Environmental and biological research is becoming central to major societal challenges related to the Earth’s ecosystems and climate dynamics. To handle the scale and complexity of the scientificquestions being addressed, there is a strong need to integrate knowledge because biological data are currently scattered and difficult to share.

Project lead:

Dr. Peter Grobe

Funding:

Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft

AliGROOVE – visualization of heterogeneous sequence divergence

AliGROOVE determines and visualizes the content of potentially randomized sequence similarities and alignment ambiguities in multiple sequence alignments.The AliGROOVE algorithm is an adaptation of the recently published ALISCORE masking algorithm (Misof & Misof, 2009, Kück et al., 2010). AliGROOVE summarizes site scores of profiles of sequence similarity normalized over the whole alignment length from each pairwise comparison and translates the obtained scoring distances between sequences into a similarity Matrix

Project lead:

Dr. Patrick Kück

Funding:

Zoological Research Museum Alexander Koenig

2012

Identification of sources of error in molecular phylogenetic analyses

The aim of our study was to test the robustness and efficiency of maximum likelihood with respect to different long branch effects on multiple-taxon trees.

Project lead:

Dr. Patrick Kück

Funding:

Zoological Research Museum Alexander Koenig

Expedition for the rainforest…

Expedition to the tropical lowland rainforest to collect material (insects, tree trunks, lianas, interviews) for the new rainforest exhibition.

Project lead:

Dr. Thomas Gerken

Funding:

Alexander-Koenig-Society e.V.

1KITE: The evolution of the insects

Insects are one of the most species-rich groups of metazoan organisms. They play a pivotal role in most non-marine ecosystems and many insect species are of enormous economical and medical importance. Unraveling the evolution of insects is essential for understanding how life in terrestrial and limnic environments evolved. The 1KITE (1K Insect Transcriptome Evolution) project aims to study the transcriptomes (that is the entirety of expressed genes) of 1,000 insect species encompassing all recognized insect orders. For each species, so-called ESTs (Expressed Sequence Tags) will be produced…

Project lead:

Prof. Dr. Bernhard Misof

2011

Automated masking of AFLP markers

AMARE is designed to optimize the signal-to-noise ratio in AFLP data sets (single or multiple primer combinations). It identifies potentially erroneous AFLP genotyping errors as the number of non-reproducible scored markers between replicated AFLP profiles of single individuals. As a measure of overall data quality, it simultaneously estimates general replicate error rates.

Project lead:

Dr. Patrick Kück

Funding:

Zoological Research Museum Alexander Koenig

2010

FASconCAT - convenient handling of data matrices

FASconCAT is a user-friendly software that concatenates rapidly different kinds of sequence data into one supermatrix file.

Project lead:

Dr. Patrick Kück

Funding:

Zoological Research Museum Alexander Koenig

2007

DNA Bank Network

Project lead:

Dr. Jonas Astrin

Funding:

Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft

Publications

Published in

2009

Von Reumont, B.M., Meusemann, K., Szucsich, N.U., Dell`Ampio, E., Gowri-Sjankar, V., Bartel, D., Simon, S., Letsch, H.O., Stocsits, R.R., Xia Luan, Y., Waegele, J.W., Pass, G., Hadrys, H., Misof, B. (2009) Can comprehensive background knowledge be incorporated into substitution models to improve phylogenetic analyses? A case study on major arthropod relationships. BMC Evolutionary Biology. 9:119.

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Documents:

reumont_et_al_substitution_2009.pdf

Wägele, J.W., Letsch, H., Klussmann-Kolb, A., Mayer, C., Misof, B., Wägele, H. (2009) Phylogenetic support values are not necessarily informative: the case of the Serialia hypothesis (a mollusk phylogeny). Frontiers in Zoology 6: 12

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Documents:

waegele_et_al_serialia_2009.pdf

2008

Blanke, A., 2008. Four new dragonfly records for the state of Espiríto Santo, Brazil: Erythrodiplax clitella Borror, Orthemis ambinigra Calvert, Lestes forficula Rambur and Heteragrion petiense Machado (Odonata: Libellulidae, Lestidae, Megapodagrionidae). Notulae odonatologicae 7(2): 13-15

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Schwarzer J., Herder, F., Misof, B., Hadiaty, R.K. & Schliewen, U.K. (2008) Gene flow at the margin of Lake Matano's adaptive sailfin silverside radiation: Telmatherinidae of River Petea in Sulawesi. Hydrobiologia 615, 201-213

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2007

Astrin, J. J., Huber, B. A., Misof, B. (2007): The pitfalls of exaggeration: molecular and morphological evidence suggests Kaliana is a synonym of Mesabolivar (Araneae: Pholcidae). - Zootaxa 1646: 17-30.

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2006

Astrin, J. J., Huber, B.A., Misof, B., Klütsch, C.F. (2006): Molecular taxonomy in pholcid spiders (Pholcidae, Araneae): evaluation of species identification methods using CO1 and 16S rRNA. - Zoologica Scripta 35: 441-457.

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Links:

http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/j.1463-6409.2006.00239.x

Herder F. , Nolte A.W., Pfaender J., Schwarzer J., Hadiaty R.K. & Schliewen U.K. (2006) Adaptive radiation and hybridization in Wallace's Dreamponds: evidence from sailfin silversides in the Malili Lakes of Sulawesi. Proceedings of the Royal Society B 273, 2209-2217

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Herder F. , Schwarzer J., Pfaender J., Hadiaty R.K. & Schliewen U.K. (2006) Preliminary checklist of sailfin silversides (Teleostei: Telmatherinidae) in the Malili Lakes of Sulawesi (Indonesia), with a synopsis of systematics and threats. Verhandlungen der Gesellschaft für Ichthyologie 5, 139-163

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Roedder, D., J. Dambach, and A. Blanke. 2006. [Anuran diversity in Santa Teresa (Mata Atlantica) - a population survey.]. Elaphe 14:45-54.

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Contact person

Prof. Dr. Alexander Suh

Head of Centre for Molecular Biodiversity Research (zmb)

Head of Section Molecular Biodiversity

Centre for Molecular Biodiversity Research (zmb)

Molecular Biodiversity

+49 228 9122-289

+49 228 9122-212

a.suh [at] leibniz-lib.de

Chair "Molecular Biodiversity Research"

Reiter

Ph.D. student

MSc or Diploma Candidate

Former staff members

2018

Non-destructive morphological studies of old museum samples using modern techniques

2017

Evolution of Dexiarchia

2016

Leibniz-Sonderausstellung: 8 Objekte, 8 Museen

3D AMP

2014

Countering Systematic Bias in Phylogenetics

Island speciation within the…

2013

GFBio

AliGROOVE – visualization of heterogeneous sequence divergence

2012

Identification of sources of error in molecular phylogenetic analyses

Expedition for the rainforest…

1KITE: The evolution of the insects

2011

Automated masking of AFLP markers

2010

FASconCAT - convenient handling of data matrices

2007

DNA Bank Network

2009

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2007

2006

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