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

• 5.20.2020 - Opening in the lab for Assistant Professor/ Junior Group Leader in Evolutionary Biology Link to Ad PDF​ Link
• 4.15.2020 - Perspective on the article by Raffini et al. 2020 in the "News and Views" section of Molecular Ecology by Gaither et al. The physiology of rapid ecological speciation: A look at the Midas cichlids. Molecular Ecology (Link)
• 17.4.2019 - Professor Meyer was elected to The American Academy of Arts and Sciences Link​

Our latest publications

• 27.5.2020 - Luo et al. 2020. From asymmetrical to balanced genomic diversification during rediploidization: Subgenomic evolution in allotetraploid fish. Science Advances. 6: eaaz7677, 
  
• 25.5.2020 - Franchini, P., Kautt, A.F., Nater, A., Antonini, G., Castiglia, R., Meyer, A., and E. Solano. 2020. Reconstructing the evolutionary history of chromosomal races on islands: a genome-wide analysis of natural house mouse populations, Molecular Biology and Evolution. (in press)..
• 6.5.2020 - Hulsey, C.D., ​Cohen, K.E., Johanson, Z., Karagic, N., Meyer, A., Miller, C.T., Sadier, A., Summers, A.P., and G.J. Fraser. 2020. Grand challenges in comparative tooth biology. Integrative and Comparative Biology. (in press).​
• ​all Meyer lab publications