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Statistical Phylogenetics & Phylogenomics

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Scientist, permanent position

Dr. Christoph Mayer

Head of Section , Deputy Data Protection Commissioner

Tel: +49 228 9122-403

Fax: +49 228 9122-212

E-Mail: C.Mayer [at] zfmk.de

Postdoc

Dr. Lars Dietz

Tel: +49 228 9122-403

Fax: +49 228 9122-212

E-Mail: ldietz [at] uni-bonn.de

Ph.D. student

Marie Valerie Brasseur

Tel: +49 228 9122-403

Fax: +49 228 9122-212

E-Mail: M.Brasseur [at] leibniz-zfmk.de

Nikita Kulikov

PhD Student

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

MSc or Diploma Candidate

Didem Cifci

Tel: +49 228 9122-421

Fax: +49 228 9122-212

E-Mail: C.Mayer [at] leibniz-zfmk.de

Bachelor Candidate

David Renz

Bachelor-Student

Fax: +49 228 9122-212

E-Mail: drenz [at] hs-koblenz.de

Fabienne Staubi

BSc student

E-Mail: fabi.staubi [at] web.de

Projects

2021

The impact of mutualistic and parasitic life histories on butterfly diversification in an increasingly arid world

Understanding the mechanisms leading to diversification of species across time in a changing world remains a challenge. Africa was largely covered by forests until the middle Oligocene, when geological and climatic changes led to increasing aridification of the landmass. The current, iconic savanna and grassland ecosystems did not become well-established until around 8 million years ago. The effect of this increasing aridification on diversification has not been well-studied in animals, and especially not in insects.

Project lead:

Dr. Marianne Espeland

Funding:

Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft

2020

Utilizing environmental genomics to study multiple agricultural stressor impacts on stream invertebrates and ecosystem functions

Der Verlust an Biodiversität nimmt rasant zu und hat nachteilige Folgen für Ökosystemfunktionen und -dienstleistungen. Hiervon sind in besonderer Weise Fließgewässer betroffen. Zu den wichtigsten Ursachen des Biodiversitätsverlustes in Fließgewässern gehören landwirtschaftliche Stressoren, wie z.B. Pestizide. Pestizide sind allerdings selten alleiniger Stressor, sondern wirken oft zusammen mit anderen Stressoren wie z.B. einem gesteigerten Feinsedimenteintrag aus Ackerflächen. Interaktionen solch multipler Stressoren können zu komplexen nichtlinearen Stressantworten führen.

Project lead:

Dr. Christoph Mayer

2018

Establishing a standardized and universally applicable set of nuclear-encoded markers for genome-wide multi-locus species delimitation of metazoans

Methods for delimiting species based on multi-gene nucleotide information are well established and provide the means to complement the classical COI barcoding approach, whose limitations are well known. Our research project aims at establishing a standardized set of single-copy nuclear-encoded markers for genome-wide multi-locus species delimitation by exploiting comparative genomic data and applying target DNA enrichment. Candidate markers are so-called Universal Single-Copy Orthologs (USCOs).

Project lead:

Dr. Dirk Ahrens

Funding:

Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft

2017

Sequencing museum material

In this project we investigate how we efficiently can use old, dried, museum materil for phylogenomic studies. A hybrid enrichment kit for Lepidoptera is being designed and first test are promising, indicating that hundreds of genes can be successfully seqeunced for over 130 year old material.

Project lead:

Dr. Marianne Espeland

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

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

2009

The legacy of the Southern Ocean

Project lead:

Dr. Christoph Mayer

Funding:

Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft

Publications

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2013

DAMBACH J., RAUPACH M.J., MAYER, C. SCHWARZER, J. and LEESE, F. (2013) Isolation and characterization of nine polymorphic microsatellite markers for the deep-sea shrimp Nematocarcinus lanceopes (Crustacea: Decapoda: Caridea) BMC Research Notes 2013, 6:75

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