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  • Home
  • Lab Members
    • Prof. Dr. Axel Meyer
    • Assistant Profs. >
      • Dr. Joost Woltering
      • Dr. Ryan Greenway
    • Postdocs >
      • Dr. Jing Li
      • Dr. Ming Li
    • PhD Students >
      • Rebekka Hoech
      • Xiaomeng Tian
    • Previous lab members
  • Publications
    • Original Articles
    • Short Communications & Book Reviews
    • Popular Press
    • Books & DVDs
    • Quantensprung Column
  • Media
    • Press coverage
    • Radio/TV/Web Coverage
    • Nicaragua Canal >
      • Grand Canal Law
      • Press Reports
      • Radio & TV
      • Papers & Books
      • HKND Documents
    • Adams Apfel und Evas Erbe >
      • Radio & TV coverage
      • Press coverage
  • Job opportunities
  • Lectures
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    • Evolution WS 2022/23
    • VTK SS 2022

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.
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News

​PBS
reports on seahorse study we were involve in (Li et al. 2021 Nature Communications 12: 1094. View PDF) - View Video here​

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Our latest (selected) publications

  • 9.12. 2022  Immunogenetic losses co-occurred with seahorse male pregnancy and mutation in tlx1 accompanied functional asplenia. Nature Communications  View PDF
  • 6.10. 2022 Homoploid hybris speciation in Nicaraguan crater lake cichlid fishes published in Nature Communications
  • 13.1.2022 "Goldentouch" paper published in Nature Communications
  • 18.8.2021 Seadragon Genome paper is out in Science Advances
  • 29.4.2021 Vertebrate Genome Project paper is out in Nature 
  • 18.01.2021 - Meyer, A., et al. 2021. Giant Lungfish genome elucidates the conquest of land by vertebrates. Nature View PDF
  • 28.10.2020 - Kautt A.F., et al. 2020. Contrasting signatures of genomic divergence during sympatric speciation. Nature View PDF​
  • ​all Meyer lab publications
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New!! Wissenschafts-Podcast "MenschenTiereSensationen" (MTS) mit Prof. Michael Sommer auf cicero.de -
​Dem Magazin für Politische Kultur
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