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Comparative Insect Genomics

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New experimental and computational techniques provide exciting opportunities to unravel the genomic basis of how new phenotypic traits emerge and how existing traits adapt, hence how biodiversity is formed and changed. To reconstruct the evolutionary history of novel phenotypes an integrated, phylogenomic perspective is now possible. Insects, being the most species rich phylum of higher eukaryotes, are a particularly promising and amenable system to study the complexities of evolutionary innovations.

Staff

Scientist, permanent position

Dr. Eckart Stolle

Head of Section

Tel: +49 228 9122-421

Fax: +49 228 9122-212

E-Mail: e.stolle [at] leibniz-zfmk.de

Scientist, visiting

Francieli das Chagas

guest scientist, researcher

E-Mail: franci_chagas [at] hotmail.com

Patrick Souza

Visiting Scientist

E-Mail: patricksouzz [at] gmail.com

Ph.D. student

Nathalie Brenner

PhD Student

Tel: +49 228 9122-407

Fax: +49 228 9122-212

E-Mail: n.brenner [at] leibniz-zfmk.de

Xuejing Hu

PhD Student

E-Mail: xuejing.hu [at] outlook.com

Elisabeth Karalashvili

PhD student

Tel: +49 228 9122-379

Fax: +49 228 9122-212

E-Mail: elisabeth.karalashvili.1 [at] iliauni.edu.ge

Johanna Pieplow

PhD Student

Fax: +49 228 9122-212

E-Mail: johanna.pieplow [at] web.de

Manwen Su

PhD student

E-Mail: M.Su [at] leibniz-lib.de

MSc or Diploma Candidate

Eva Baumgarten

MSc student

Tel: +49 228 9122-407

Fax: +49 228 9122-212

E-Mail: E.Baumgarten [at] leibniz-lib.de

Projects

2023

BIGFOOT

We face a global biodiversity crisis of unprecedented magnitude with devastating consequences for ecosystem viability. Besides anthropogenic habitat deterioration, fragmentation and climatic change, genomics can determine a population's fate but also can be used to assess its health. Yet, genomic patterns of species decline have only been shown for a few emblematic mammal species. Populations of some declining species are mostly assessed by classical census monitoring (e.g.

Project lead:

Astrid Böhne

Funding:

Leibniz Association

2022

phenotypic loss in bees - the evolution of cleptoparasitism

Project lead:

Dr. Eckart Stolle

DeRGA - Deutscher ReferenzGenom Atlas

German hub of the European Reference Genome AtlasBuilding up to the mission of the international ERGA, the German biodiversity genomics community aims at generating high-quality reference genomes of the German eukaryotic biodiversity:

Project lead:

Astrid Böhne

phenotypic loss - the evolution of stingless bees

Project lead:

Dr. Eckart Stolle

ERGA - The European Referen...

The European Reference Genome Atlas (ERGA) initiative is a pan-European scientific response to current threats to biodiversity. Reference genomes provide the most complete insight into the genetic basis that forms each species and represent a powerful resource in understanding how biodiversity functions. ERGA aims to sequence the genomes of all European species and will for this establish an interdisciplinary workflow.

Project lead:

Astrid Böhne

Funding:

European Union

2021

CORBICULA

Humandkind's most important insect leg

Project lead:

Dr. Eckart Stolle

Funding:

European Union

thelytoky in honeybees

Genomische Langzeitkonsequenzen thelytoker VermehrungVerluste von HeterozygotieAssociative ÜberdominanzGenomische Regulation von Thelytokie in Honigbienen

Project lead:

Dr. Eckart Stolle

Funding:

Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft

Bumblebee Phenotypic Evolution

Bumblebee Phenotypic Evolution - We will study phenotypic evolution in bumblebees, repeatability of evolution and evolutionary constraints using genomics and transcriptomics.

Project lead:

Dr. Eckart Stolle

Funding:

Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft

2019

Bombus terrestris genome

Using long read sequencing of DNA and RNA we will improve the genome sequence assembly and annotation of the bufftailed bumblebee Bombus terrestris.

Project lead:

Dr. Eckart Stolle

Funding:

European Union

2017

GGBC: Assessment, Monitoring and Management of Caucasian Biodiversity

A Georgian-German initiative to explore and barcode the biodiversity of the Caucasus area

Project lead:

Prof. Dr. Bernhard Misof

Funding:

Federal Ministry of Education and Research

Publications

Published in

2024

Seropian, A., Bulbulashvili, N., Krammer, H. J., Thormann, J., Hein, N., Karalashvili, E., Kachlishvili, N. & Datunashvili, A. (2024). Picking pearls from the Silk Road: Insights into the spider (Arachnida, Araneae) diversity in Georgia from the Caucasus Barcode of Life (CaBOL) project. Part III. Caucasiana, 3, 89-118.

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Links:

https://doi.org/10.3897/caucasiana.3.e120883

2023

Dietz L., Mayer C., Stolle E., Eberle J., Misof B., Podsiadlowski L., Niehuis O., Ahrens, D., (2023) Metazoa-level USCOs as markers in species delimitation and classification Mol. Ecol Res. DOI: 10.1111/1755-0998.13921 DOI: 10.1111/1755-0998.13921

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Stolle E, Guiglielmoni N, Kirangwa J, Kukowka S, Meitzel T, Mc Cartney A, Heilmann-Heimbach S, Becker K, Köhrer K and Böhne A. (2023) Reference genome sequence of the solitary bee Camptopoeum friesei Mocsáry, 1894 (Hymenoptera, Andrenidae). bioRxiv 2023.08.27.555015, doi: 10.1101/2023.08.27.555015

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Links:

Reference genome sequence of the solitary bee Camptopoeum friesei Mocsáry, 1894 (Hymenoptera, Andrenidae)

Fleites-Ayil, F.A, Medina-Medina, L.A., Quezada Euán, J.J.G., Stolle, E., Theodorou, P., Tragust, S., Paxton, R.J. (2023): Trouble in the tropics: Pathogen spillover is a threat for native stingless bees. Biological Conservation 284: 110150.

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Koludarov, I., Velasque, M., Timm, T., Lochnit, G., Heinzinger, M., Vilcinskas, A., Gloag, R., Harpur, B.A., Podsiadlowski, L., Rost, B., Dutertre, S., Stolle, E., von Reumont, B.M. (2023). A common venomous ancestor? Prevalent bee venom genes evolved before the aculeate stinger while few major toxins are bee specific. BMC Biology, accepted

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Webster, M.T. , Beaurepaire, A., Neumann, P., Stolle, E. (2023): Population genomics for insect conservation. Annual Review of Animal Biosciences 11: 115-140.

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2022

Stolle, Eckart; Pracana, Rodrigo; López-Osorio, Federico; Priebe, Marian K.; Hernández, Gabriel Luis; Castillo-Carrillo, Claudia; Arias, Maria Cristina; Paris, Carolina Ivon; Bollazzi, Martin; Priyam, Anurag; Wurm, Yannick. Recurring adaptive introgression of a supergene variant that determines social organization. Nature Communications 13: 1180 (2022)

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2021

Dogantzis, KA; Tiwari, T; Conflitti, IM; Dey, A; Patch, HM,;Muli, EM; Garnery, L; Whitfield, CW; Stolle, E; Alqarni, AS; Allsopp, MH; Zayed, A. Thrice out of Asia and the adaptive radiation of the western honey bee. Science Advances 7 (49)

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Séguret, A. C., Stolle, E., Fleites-Ayil, F. A., Quezada-Euán, J. J. G., Hartfelder, K., Meusemann, K., Harrison, M., et al. (2021): Transcriptomic signatures of ageing vary in solitary and social forms of an orchid bee. - Genome Biology and Evolution 13 (6): evab075. https://doi.org/10.1093/gbe/evab075.

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Links:

https://doi.org/10.1093/gbe/evab075

2020

Kapheim, K., Jones, B. M., Pan, H., Li, C., Harpur, B. A., Kent, C., Zayed, A., Ioannidis, P., Waterhouse, R. M., Kingwell, C., Stolle, E., Avalos, A., Zhang, G., McMillan, W. O., Wcislo, W. T. (2020): Developmental plasticity shapes social traits and selection in a facultatively eusocial bee. PNAS 117 (24): 13615-13625

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Kapheim, K., Jones, B. M., Søvik, E., Stolle, E., Waterhouse, R. M., Bloch, G., Ben-Shahar, Y. (2020): Brain microRNAs among social and solitary bees. Royal Society Open Science 7 (7): 200517

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Martinez-Ruiz, C., Pracana, R., Stolle, E., Paris, C. I., Nichols, R., Wurm, Y. (2020): Genomic architecture and evolutionary antagonism drive allelic expression bias in the social supergene of red fire ants. eLife 2020 (9): e55862

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Saure, C., Dziock, F., Jentzsch, M., Stolle, E. (2020): Rote Listen Sachsen-Anhalt: Schwebfliegen (Diptera: Syrphidae). Berichte des Landesamtes für Umweltschutz Sachsen-Anhalt 1: 895–905.

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Saure, C., Stolle, E. (2020): Rote Listen Sachsen-Anhalt: Stechwespen (Hymenoptera: Aculeata). Berichte des Landesamtes für Umweltschutz Sachsen-Anhalt 1: 791-806.

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Séguret A. C., Stolle E., Fleites-Ayil, F. A., Quezada-Euán J. J. G., Hartfelder K., Meusemann K., Harrison M., Soro A., Paxton R. J. (2020): Transcriptomic signatures of ageing vary in solitary and social forms of an orchid bee. bioRxiv, doi: https://doi.org/10.1101/2020.07.30.228304. (in revision)

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2019

Aumer, D., Stolle, E.,Allsopp, M., Mumoki, F., Pirk, C. W. W., Moritz, R. F. A. (2019): A single SNP turns a social honey bee (Apis mellifera) worker into a selfish parasite. Molecular Biology and Evolution, 36(3): 516–526.

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Colgan, T., Fletcher, I., Arce, A., Gill, R., Ramos Rodrigues, A., Stolle, E., Chittka, L., Wurm, Y. (2019): Caste- and pesticide-specific effects of neonicotinoid pesticide exposure on gene expression in bumblebees. Molecular Ecology, 28(8): 1964–1974.

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Kapheim, K. M., Pan, H., Li, C., Blatti, C., Harpur, B. A., Ioannidis, P., Jones, B. M., Kent, C. F., Ruzzante, L., Sloofman, L., Stolle, E., Waterhouse, R. M., Zayed, A., Zhang, G., Wcislo, W. T. (2019): Draft genome assembly and population genetics of an agricultural pollinator, the solitary alkali bee (Halictidae: Nomia melanderi). G3, 9(3): 625–634.

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Stolle, E., Pracana, R., Howard, P., Paris, C. I., Brown, S. J., Castillo-Carrillo, C. A., Rossitter, S. J., Wurm, Y. (2019): Degenerative expansion of a young supergene. Molecular Biology and Evolution, 36 (3): 553–561.

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Contact person

Dr. Eckart Stolle

Head of Section

Comparative Insect Genomics

+49 228 9122-421

+49 228 9122-212

e.stolle [at] leibniz-zfmk.de

Comparative Insect Genomics

Reiter

Scientist, permanent position

Scientist, visiting

Ph.D. student

MSc or Diploma Candidate

2023

BIGFOOT

2022

phenotypic loss in bees - the evolution of cleptoparasitism

DeRGA - Deutscher ReferenzGenom Atlas

phenotypic loss - the evolution of stingless bees

ERGA - The European Referen...

2021

CORBICULA

thelytoky in honeybees

Bumblebee Phenotypic Evolution

2019

Bombus terrestris genome

2017

GGBC: Assessment, Monitoring and Management of Caucasian Biodiversity

2024

2023

2022

2021

2020

2019

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