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

  • 19.02.2021 Perspective about our research by Gompertz, Feder and Nosil in Science: How many genetic changes create new species? Link
  • 18.01.2021 The Australian Lungfish paper is out in Nature Link
  • 28.10.2020 Our Midas genome paper (internal name: the Mother of all Midas papers) is out in Nature Link
  • 1.7.2020 - Professor Meyer named Associate of the Museum of Comparative Zoology, Harvard University

Our latest publications


  • 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
  • 22.11.2020 - Karagic, N., Schneider, R.F., Meyer, A., and C.D. Hulsey. 2020. A genomic cluster with novel and conserved genes is associated with cichlid dental developmental convergence. Molecular Biology and Evolution 37: 3165–3174.
  • 09.10.2020 - Real, et al. 2020. The mole genome reveals regulatory rearrangements associated with adaptive intersexuality. Science 370:208-214. View PDF​
  • ​all Meyer lab publications

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