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Staff

Scientist, permanent position

Prof. Dr. Alexander Suh

Head of Centre for Molecular Biodiversity Research (zmb), Head of Section Molecular Biodiversity

Tel: +49 228 9122-289

Fax: +49 228 9122-212

E-Mail: a.suh [at] leibniz-lib.de

Scientist, third-party funded

Postdoc

E-Mail: m.bodde [at] leibniz-lib.de

Scientist, visiting

Anna Torgasheva

Postdoc

Tel: +49 228 9122-427

Fax: +49 228 9122-212

E-Mail: A.Torgasheva [at] leibniz-lib.de

Postdoc

PostDoc

E-Mail: y.pei [at] leibniz-lib.de

Dr. Francisco Jesus Ruiz-Ruano Campana

Postdoc

E-Mail: f.ruizruano [at] leibniz-lib.de

Ph.D. student

PhD student

E-Mail: i.borges [at] leibniz-lib.de

PhD student

E-Mail: d.gonzalez [at] leibniz-lib.de

PhD student

E-Mail: n.vontzou [at] leibniz-lib.de

Publications

Published in

2023

Arnqvist, G., Westerberg, I., Galbraith, J., Sayadi, A., Scofield, D. G., Olsen, R. A., Immonen, E., Bonath, F., Ewels, P. & Suh, A. (2023). A chromosome-level assembly of the seed beetle Callosobruchus maculatus genome with annotation of its repetitive elements. G3: Genes, Genomes, Genetics, jkad266.

Peona, V., Palacios-Gimenez, O. M., Lutgen, D., Olsen, R. A., Kakhki, N. A., Andriopoulos, P., Bontzorlos, V., Schweizer, M., Suh, A., Burri, R. (2023). An annotated chromosome-scale reference genome for Eastern Black-eared Wheatear (Oenanthe melanoleuca). G3: Genes | Genomes | Genetics 13, jkad088

Sadanandan, K. R., Tan, H. Z., Lim, H. Y., Tan, Y. G., Lee, G., Chan, L., Pei, Y., Rheindt, F. E. & Baldwin, M. W. (2023). Spatial and temporal resource partitioning in a mixed‐species colony of avian echolocators. Ecology and Evolution, 13(2), e9805.

Navarro-Domínguez, B., Cabrero, J., López-León, M. D., Ruiz-Ruano, F. J., Pita, M., Bella, J. L., & Camacho, J. P. M. (2023). Tandem Repeat DNA Provides Many Cytological Markers for Hybrid Zone Analysis in Two Subspecies of the Grasshopper Chorthippus parallelus. Genes, 14(2), 397.

Ruiz-Ruano, F. J., Camacho, J. P. M. (2023) Irreproducible results and unsupportedconclusions in Ahmad et al. [BMC genomics(2020) 21:656]. BMC Genomics 24:778.

Peona, V., Kutschera, V. E., Blom, M. P. K., Irestedt, M., Suh, A. (2023) Satellite DNA evolution in Corvoidea inferred from short and long reads. Molecular Ecology, 23(6), 1288-1305.

Alaei Kakhki, N., Schweizer, M., Lutgen, D., Bowie, R. C. K., Shirihai, H., Suh, A., Schielzeth, H., Burri, R. (2023). A phylogenomic assessment of processes underpinning convergent evolution in open-habitat chats. Molecular Biology and Evolution 40, msac278

Bentley, B. P., Carrasco-Valenzuela, T., Ramos, E. K. S., Pawar, H., Arantes, L. S., Alexander, A., Banerjee, S. M., Masterson, P., Kuhlwilm, M., Pippel, M., Mountcastle, J., Haase, B., Silva, M. U., Formenti, G., Howe, K., Chow, W., Tracey, A., Sims, Y., Pelan, S., Wood, J., Perrault, J. R., Stewart, K., Benson, S., Levy, Y., Todd, E. V., Shaffer, H. B., Scott, P., Henen, B. T., Murphy, R. W., Mohr, D. W., Scott, A. F., Gemmell, N., Suh, A., Winkler, S., Thibaud-Nissen, F., Nery, M. F., Marques-Bonet, T., Antunes, A., Tikochinski, Y., Dutton, P. H., Fedrigo, O., Myers, E. W., Jarvis, E., Mazzoni, C., Komoroske, L. M. (2023) Differential sensory and immune gene evolution in sea turtles with contrasting demographic and life histories. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences 120, e2201076120

De Greef, E., Suh, A., Thorstensen, M. J., Delmore, K. E., Fraser, K. C. (2023) Genomic architecture of migration timing in a long-distance migratory songbird. Scientific Reports 13, 2437

Karawita, A. C., Cheng, Y., Chew, K. Y., Challgula, A., Kraus, R., Mueller, R. C., Tong, M. Z. W., Hulme, K. D., Beielefeldt-Ohmann, H., Steele, L. E., Wu, M., Sng, J., Noye, E., Bruxner, T. J., Au, G. G., Lowther, S., Blommaert, J., Suh, A., McCauley, A. J., Kaur, P., Dudchenko, O., Aiden, E., Fedrigo, O., Formenti, G., Mountcastle, J., Chow, W., Martin, F. J., Ogeh, D. N., Thiaud-Nissen, F., Howe, K., Collins, J., Tracey, A., Smith, J., Kuo, R. I., Renfree, M. B., Kimura, T., Sakoda, Y., McDougall, M., Spencer, H. G., Pyne, M., Tolf, C., Waldenström, J., Jarvis, E. D., Baker, M. L., Burt, D. W., Short, K. R. (2023) The swan genome and transcriptome: it is not all black and white. Genome Biology 24, 13.

Martin, C. A., Sheppard, E. C., Illera, J. C., Suh, A., Nadachowska-Brzyska, K., Spurgin, L. G., Richardson, D. S. (2023) Runs of homozygosity reveal past bottlenecks and contemporary inbreeding across diverging populations of an island colonising bird. Molecular Ecology 32, 1972-1989

Mueller, J. C., Schlebusch, S. A., Pei, Y., Poignet, M., Vontzou, N., Ruiz-Ruano, F. J., Albrecht, T., Reifová, R., Forstmeier, W., Suh, A., Kempenaers, B. (2023). Micro germline-restricted chromosome in blue tits: evidence for meiotic functions. Molecular Biology and Evolution 40, msad096

Ovchinnikov, V., Uliano-Silva, M., Wilkinson, M., Wood, J., Smith, M., Oliver, K., Sims, Y., Torrance, J., Suh, A., McCarthy, S. A., Durbin, R., O’Connell, M. J. (2023) Caecilian genomes reveal molecular basis of adaptation and convergent evolution of limblessness in snakes and caecilians. Molecular Biology and Evolution 40, msad102.

Pei, Y., Forstmeier, W., Knief, U., & Kempenaers, B. (2023). Weak antagonistic fitness effects can maintain an inversion polymorphism. Molecular Ecology, 32, 3575–3585. https://doi.org/10.1111/mec.16963

Schlebusch, S., Rídl, J., Poignet, M., Ruiz-Ruano, FJ, Reif, J., Pačes, J., Albrecht, T., Suh, A., Reifová, R. (2023) Rapid gene content turnover on the germline-restricted chromosome in songbirds. Nature Communications 14:4579

Vontzou, N.*, Pei, Y.*, Mueller, J. C., Reifová, R., Ruiz-Ruano, F. J., Schlebusch, S. A., Suh, A. (2023) Songbird germline-restricted chromosome as a potential arena of genetic conflicts. Current Opinion in Genetics and Development 83:102113.

2022

Pei, Y., Forstmeier, W., Ruiz-Ruano, F.J., Mueller, J.C., Cabrero, J., Camacho, J.P.M., Alché, J.D., Franke, A., Hoeppner, M., Börno, S., Gessara, I., Hertel M., Teltscher K., Knief U., Suh A. and Kempenaers B., (2022). Occasional paternal inheritance of the germline-restricted chromosome in songbirds. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, 119(4), p.e2103960119.

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