The Meyer Lab
We study several fundamental issues in evolutionary biology. In particular, the evolution of biodiversity, and specifically the genesis of genomic, developmental and morphological diversity as well as their evolutionary interconnections, are of interest to us. To this end we study: morphological differentiation and its developmental basis within a phylogenetic framework, genetic differentiation among populations and species, and the evolution of genes and genomes, and the evolution of novel gene functions. In an effort to better understand the origin and maintenance of diversity we mostly use molecular and bioinformatic approaches, to ask how many and what kind of genetic changes accompany morphological differentiation among populations and species.

News

  • 14.8.2019 - Innovations Report about Franchini et al.'s paper in Molecular Biology and Evolution: "MicroRNA gene regulation in extremely young and parallel adaptive radiations of crater lake cichlid fish" Link
  • 9.8.2019 - Frederico Henning who finished his PhD in the lab in 2016 has a new job as a professor of genetics and evolution at the Federal University of Rio de Janeiro, Brazil
  • 17.4.2019 - Professor Meyer was elected to The American Academy of Arts and Sciences Link​

Our latest publications

  • 20.8.2019 - Kratochwil C.F., Urban, S., and A. Meyer. 2019. Genome of the Malawi golden cichlid fish (Melanochromis auratus) reveals exon loss of oca2 in an amelanistic morph.​ Pigment Cell and Melanoma Research. 32: 719-723.
  • 18.7.2019 - Xiong, P., Schneider, R.F., Hulsey, C.D., Meyer, A. and P. Franchini. 2019. Conservation and novelty in the microRNA genomic landscape of hyper-diverse cichlid fishes. Scientific Reports. (accepted).
  • 17.7.2019 - Franchini, P., Xiong, P., Fruciano, C., Schneider, R.F., Woltering, J.M., Hulsey, C.D. and A. Meyer. 2019. MicroRNA gene regulation in the extremely young and parallel adaptive radiations of Nicaraguan crater lake cichlid fish. Molecular Biology and Evolution. (in press).
  • ​all Meyer lab publications