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

  • 1.10.2019 - Andreas Härer will join Diana Rennison's lab at UC San Diego 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

  • 23.01.2020 -​ Liang, Y., Gerwin, J., Meyer, A., and C.F. Kratochwil. 2020. Developmental and cellular basis of vertical bar color patterns in the East African cichlid fish Haplochromis latifasciatus. Frontiers in Cell and Developmental Biology. (in press).
  • 20.12.2019 -​ Kratochwil C.F., Liang Y., Urban S., Torres-Dowdall J., and A. Meyer. 2019.  Evolutionary dynamics of structural variation at a key locus for color pattern diversification in cichlid fishes. Genome Biology and Evolution. 11: 2452-3465.
  • 26.11.2019 - Woltering, J.M., Holzem, M., and A. Meyer. 2019. Lissamphibian limbs and the origins of tetrapod hox domains. Developmental Biology. 456: 138-144. 
  • 22.11.2019 - Raffini, F., Schneider R.F.,  Franchini, P.,  Kautt, A.F, and A. Meyer. 2019. Diving into divergence: Differentiation in swimming performances, physiology and gene expression between locally‐adapted sympatric cichlid fishes. Molecular Ecology. (in press).
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