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Mail Beate
Nürnberger
international: +44 131 650 5543
Daphne Jackson Fellow
Institute of Evolutionary Biology
Ashworth Laboratories
University of Edinburgh
West Mains Road
Edinburgh EH9 3JT, UK
The natural hybridisation of the fire-bellied toads, Bombina
bombina and B. variegata, forms the main focus
of our research. Spatially well-defined hybrid
zones in Central
and Eastern Europe with their broad spectrum of recombinants
provide excellent opportunities to study the ecological and
genetic determinants of incipient speciation.
In the scleractinian
coral, Seriatopora hystrix, we use highly variable
microsatellite markers to analyse strategies
of growth and reproduction in natural populations in the
Red Sea and at the Great Barrier Reef.
Finally, we investigate
the geographic parthenogenesis of the mediterranean
cockroach Phyllodromica subaptera. Based on DNA
sequences and AFLP profiles, we study the origin and spread
of parthenogenetic lines.
| 1981 – 1984 |
Undergraduate studies in Biology at the
Julius-Maximilians-Universität Würzburg |
| 1991 – 1997 |
Post-doc, ICAPB, University of Edinburgh,
Scotland (Prof. N.H. Barton) |
| 1997 – 2003 |
Wissenschaftliche Assistentin (Assistant
Professor), Ecology Group, LMU München
(Habilitation 2002) |
| 2003 – |
Oberassistentin, Lehrstuhl
für Ökologie, LMU München |
 Prof.
N.H. Barton, ICAPB, University of Edinburgh, Schottland
Prof.
J.M. Szymura, Department of Comparative Anatomy, Jagiellonen
Universität, Kraków, Polen
2000 - 2004
 Alexey
Yanchukov, Schmalhausen Institute of Zoology of NAS
of Ukraine, DAAD Stipendiat
Tim Sands, ICAPB, University of Edinburgh, Schottland
Gyóngyver Mara, Sapientia Universität, Miercurea
Ciuc, Rumänien
Susanne Nell „Adaptation an verschiedene Temperaturregime
bei den Unken Bombina bombina und B. variegata“.
Felix Zajitschek „Differential temperature adaptation
amongst populations in the Bombina hybrid zone in Romania“
Claudia
Lemcke „Kin recognition in tadpoles of the yellow-bellied
toad, Bombina variegata“
Christiane Gegner „Phylogenetic analysis of duplicated
loci in Bombina bombina und Bombina variegata“
Martina Thiel „Genetische und ökologische Analysen
der Hybridisierung zwischen Bombina bombina und
Bombina variegata: neue Befunde zur kleinräumigen Differenzierung“
Sonja Hübner „Phylogenetic analysis of the Bombinin
gene in Bombina bombina and B. variegata“
 Elke
Maier „Microsatellites in Seriatopora hystrix:
a new method to study the clonal structure
of corals”
Nadine
Gohlisch "Selection due to predation in experimental cohorts of Bombina tadpoles"
Tim
Vines (University of Edinburgh) „Migration, habitat
choice and assortative mating in a Bombina hybrid zone“ (zusammen
mit Prof. N.H Barton, Edinburgh), 2002
Sonja
Köhler „Mechanisms for partial reproductive
isolation in a Bombina hybrid zone in Romania”, 2003
Currents projects
Elke
Maier "Strategies of growth and reproduction in the
scleractinian coral Seriatopora hystrix” (collaboration
with Prof.
Dr. Ralph Tollrian)
Thomas
Knebelsberger "Phylogenetic analysis of geographic
parthenogenesis in the cockroach Phyllodromica subaptea“ (collaboration
with Prof. Horst Bohn)
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